Celery Forever:
Where America's Weirdest Soda Came From and How It's Stuck Around by At the time of Cel-Ray's invention, celery was just
gaining a foothold in this country, thanks to seeds brought over by immigrant
farmers. Like an agricultural Silicon
Valley, the celery market was ripe for innovation: celery soap, celery chewing gum . . . you get
the idea. Several manufacturers made
celery sodas or tonics, like Lake's Celery, invented in 1887, and Celery-Cola,
produced by a Coca-Cola partner, but they all perished as America's great celery
fascination wore off around the 1930s. "In
Eastern European cuisine, there is a tradition of taking traditionally savory
ingredients and fermenting them to make beverages," said Jeffrey
Yoskowitz, a young don in the new Jewish food movement and one of the people
behind New York's Gefilteria. "You have bread kvass, which tastes kind
of like a rye loaf with an added oomph, and beet kvass, which tastes a lot like
beet borscht." Still, Cel-Ray, was
very much a product of its time: a
confluence of health trends, emerging industry, and Old World history. More remarkable is its persistence
today. Today, Cel-Ray is far from Dr.
Brown's best-selling product; the company also sells flavors like black cherry,
ginger gale, cream, and orange soda. LA
Bottleworks, which purchased J&R Bottling in December of 2013, packages
about 5,000 cases of glass bottles a year.
Celery soda enjoys a cult following, one whose sphere of influence is
spreading across America with and beyond the New York Jewish diaspora.
Read more and see pictures at https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/10/dr-browns-cel-ray-celery-soda-history.html
Books by James Weldon Johnson Lift Every Voice and Sing
/ The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
/ God’s Trombones / Black Manhattan / Along This Way The Creation / The Books of the American Negro
Spirituals. Read review of God's Trombones by Amin Sharif
at http://www.nathanielturner.com/godstrombones.htm
God's Trombone/Seven Negro Sermons In Verse by James Weldon Johnson http://www.freetravellink.com/god_39_s_trombone_seven_negro_sermons_in_verse_english_download.pdf
Aaron Douglas artwork: God's Trombone See related artworks at
John
Albert Bauer (1882–1918)
was a Swedish painter and illustrator.
His work is concerned with landscape and mythology, but he also composed portraits. He is best known for his illustrations of
early editions of Bland tomtar och trol0l (Among Gnomes
and Trolls), an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales. Bauer was born and raised in Jönköping. At 16 he moved to Stockholm to study at
the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. While there he received his first commissions
to illustrate stories in books and magazines, and met the artist Ester
Ellqvist, whom he married in 1906.
He traveled throughout Lappland,
Germany and Italy early in his career, and these cultures deeply informed his
work. He painted and illustrated in
a romantic nationalistic style, in part
influenced by the Italian Renaissance and Sami cultures. Most of his works are watercolors or prints in monochrome or
muted colours; he also produced oil paintings and frescos. His illustrations and paintings broadened the
understanding and appreciation of Swedish folklore, fairy tales and
landscape. Bauer had a time-consuming
technique when painting: he would start
with a small sketch, no bigger than a stamp, with just the basic shapes. Then he would make another, slightly bigger,
sketch with more details. The sketches grew progressively in size and detail
until the work reached its final size. Most of the originals for About Gnomes
and Trolls are square pictures about 20 to 25 centimetres (7.9 to 9.8
inches). He doodled on anything at hand,
from used stationery to the back of an envelope. Many of his sketches
resemble cartoon strips where the pictures get bigger and more detailed. He would also do several versions of the same
finished picture, such as one where the motif is depicted in a summer and
winter scene. He did not observe the traditional hierarchy in the mediums or techniques at that time. He could make a complete work in pencil or charcoal just
as well as a sketch in oil. From an early
age Bauer had to adapt his illustrations to contemporary printing
technique. Full-colour was expensive, so
the illustrations were made in one colour plus black. As the process
developed and his works became in greater demand, his pictures were eventually
printed in full colour. Read more and
see graphics at
25 things people think the U.P. is shaped like by Jessica Shepherd
posted September 01, 2017 We
asked readers to tell us what
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is shaped like. Since we all know the Lower Peninsula is a
mitten, it only seemed fair we settle the debate on the shape of its
counterpart. Perhaps not surprisingly, readers told us they think the
U.P. just looks like the U.P. It isn't
shaped like anything else, said 35 percent of respondents. Coming in
second in our poll, with about 30 percent of the vote was the rabbit jumping
over the mitten. You can see it. The
Keweenaw Peninsula is the ears, the western point of the U.P. is the bunny's
face and there are two legs. Keep
jumping, you fine rabbit. You have two hands. We have two peninsulas. More than 21 percent of poll respondents think
that is just perfect because the U.P., in their eyes, is shaped like the
mitten's partner turned sideways. Make
sure your thumb is properly angled to represent the Keweenaw Peninsula. Read more and see pictures at https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/09/here_are_the_12_things_people.htmlhttps://www.mlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/09/here_are_the_12_things_people.html
An artisan lodge is taking
form in a 139-year-old former Grand Ledge church The
lodge’s identify, Rabbit & Mitten, is a nod to what number of Michiganders
describe the state as a rabbit leaping over a mitten. Located at 205 W. Scott St., it dates
to 1879, and is a part of the neighborhood’s historic panorama. It will be reworked into a contemporary and
“cozy” 12-room artisan lodge. The exterior will not change a lot, however
its proprietor Ann Duchene is laying the groundwork to spend an estimated
$500,000 to utterly rework the inside.
She purchased it out of foreclosures for $130,000 after it had housed
the places of work for a home-schooling companies firm. Work in the
church itself is poised to start in January 2019. The rooms will range in measurement from
roughly 350 to 500 sq. ft, and 5 of the 12 will embrace small kitchens. The
biggest room, at 500 sq. ft, might be constructed within the attic. Duchene is planning to associate with
native eating places and bakeries to supply meals that may be delivered to the
lodge by visitor request. http://cheapkneebraces.com/an-artisan-lodge-is-taking-form-in-a-139-year-old-former-grand-ledge-church/
Grand Ledge, Michigan is located about 10 miles west
of Lansing. Situated along Michigan's longest river, this
picturesque city got its name from the Grand River and the 500-million-year-old
sandstone ledges that tower along its banks.
https://www.michigan.org/city/grand-ledge#?c=44.4299:-85.1166:6&tid=986&page=0&pagesize=20&pagetitle=Grand%20Ledge
Word of
the Day for January 29 Rafflesian adjective Of
or relating to Sir Stamford
Raffles, a British colonial statesman known for his founding of modern Singapore and British Malaya.
(Singapore) Of or relating to an educational institution named after Sir Stamford Raffles. Rafflesian noun (Singapore) A current or former student of an educational institution named after Sir Stamford
Raffles. Today
is the bicentennial of
the day in 1819 when Sir Stamford Raffles sailed up the Singapore River and landed on the main
island of Singapore, having
visited Saint John’s
Island the previous day.
Wiktionary
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com January 29, 2019 Issue 2031
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