Tennessee Wine & Spirits
Retailers Association v. Zackary Blair et al has the potential to change the
way American consumers buy wine. At the
heart of it is a Tennessee law that requires liquor retailers to be residents
of the state for a certain amount of time before getting and renewing a
license. Is the law protected by the
21st Amendment, which has given states control over alcohol laws since
Prohibition was repealed? Or does the
law violate the Constitution's Commerce Clause, which prevents states from
erecting business barriers with other states?
But the courts have ruled that
states do not have unlimited power over alcohol sales. In 2005, the Supreme Court's Granholm v. Heald decision
struck down bans on out-of-state winery shipping in New York and Michigan,
claiming they violated the Commerce Clause as the states
allowed in-state wineries to ship directly to consumers. The majority ruled that the 21st Amendment
did not allow the states to discriminate against out-of-state wineries. Since then, 43 states have allowed some form
of winery-direct shipping to their residents, opening up more wine options to
consumers. The Sixth Circuit Court cited Granholm as
one of the reasons it found Tennessee's residency law unconstitutional: It discriminates against out-of-state
retailers who want to do business in the state, while allowing in-state retailers
to do so without a waiting period. Read more at https://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Will-the-Supreme-Court-Upend-Wine-Laws
What kind of milk is feta cheese made from? Can it be made
with cow's milk? The simple answer is
no—at least not in the European Union.
Real feta must be made of at least 70 percent sheep's milk and up to 30
percent goat's milk, and it must be produced to definite specifications. Many cheeses on the market call themselves
"feta" or "feta-type"
cheeses, but there are standards for how genuine feta is made and what kind of
milk is used. Feta cheese dates
back to the eighth century B.C. when cheese made with sheep's milk was stored in
brine. The cheese itself may come about
thanks to an accidental discovery—milk curdled when it was transported inside
animals' stomachs. Feta is made using
curdled milk. Similar cheeses are made with cow's milk—one called
"telemes" is even
produced in Greece. But cow's milk
cheeses or combinations using cow's milk as an ingredient are not the
same. The taste is very different. Bulgaria makes a similar cheese that's
creamier and much saltier. France's version
is also creamy but more mild. Any cheese
that uses more goat's milk than sheep's milk—or cow's milk instead of sheep's
milk—tends to lack the sharp bite of feta.
Keep in mind, too, that feta cheese from other countries can be quite
similar when it's made with the right percentages of sheep's and goat's milk,
but those countries can't legally label their products as "feta" due
to a 2005 EU court decision. Nancy Gaifyllia https://www.thespruceeats.com/what-is-feta-cheese-p3-1705625
The Thief of Bagdad: An Arabian Nights
Fantasy" (1924) At both the
start and end of the film: "It is written in the stars:
Happiness Must Be Earned" Fairbanks, a co-founder of United Artists, and
first president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was an
early advocate for filmmaking being treated, taught, and preserved as
"Art." He made sure his own
personal archives were donated to the Museum of Modern Art, which still holds
the original nitrate negative of this film.
All this in a period when silent films were widely assumed to have no
commercial value after their original theatrical release ended. They
used optical illusion tricks--such as painting the upper portions darker colors
and using reflective flooring--to make it look even bigger on screen.
Fairbanks was a big fan of such special effects shots (all of which
had to be done "in camera" at the time) and used all the tricks in
making this film. He also filled his screen with a cast of
thousands: Literally--over 3,000 extras in some shots. To do that
the studio sent buses through Los Angeles each day with signs offering people
free rides to see Fairbanks shooting a film. These became his extras.
100s had to be turned away. Watch
him running and leaping about, balancing from railings, gliding up stairs. It's hard to believe he was 40 years old at
the time this film was shot. Consider
one scene where is shown escaping from pursuers by jumping into and out of
enormous Persian urns--each taller than an adult. That's actually him jumping between
those. No camera tricks. Each urn had a small trampoline placed
inside, He had to practice for months to
develop the necessary height and accuracy to do this stunt. https://bobpariseau.com/blog/2018/6/16/the-thief-of-bagdad-an-arabian-nights-fantasy-1924-on-blu-ray-they-sure-dont-make-em-like-this-anymore
Red eggs are made by dipping hard-boiled eggs in red
food dye. To make the eggs take on the dye more easily,
they are often boiled in water with salt and vinegar, which makes the shells
more porous. The eggs are allowed to
cool, after which they can be offered to family, friends and guests to the
full-moon party. In countries with a
high Chinese population, slight variations on these customs are made. In Malaysia, friends and family are given
yellow glutinous rice coloured with turmeric, red eggs and sweet red glutinous
rice cakes (ang koo). These cakes (kueh)
are shaped as round balls if it is a boy, and little tortoise shapes if it is a
girl. The sticky-rice cakes are filled
with sweet mung bean paste and stem from Nyonya cuisine, a fusion of Chinese
and native Malaysian cultures.
Sambuca, a hilltop town on the Italian
island of Sicily with views over the Mediterranean island and nearby beaches,
has placed dozens of dwellings on the market for €1, or just over a dollar. The deal is aimed at reviving a community
that, like many other rural spots in Italy, has suffered from depopulation in
recent years as residents move to bigger cities. The new owners must commit to refurbish their
choice of the crumbling 40- to 150-square meter dwellings within three years,
at a cost starting from €15,000 (about $17,200). They'll also need to cough up a €5,000
security deposit that will be returned once the restyle is complete. Sambuca is known as the City of Splendor and its
fertile patch of land is dubbed the Earthly Paradise. Sambuca is called "Sicily's barn"
for its huge amount of grain production.
Old millstones still make bread and pasta using traditional methods and
ancient Saracen black wheat varieties, such as sweet-flavored Tumminia. Signature dishes include busiate short pasta with qualeddu (a wild
large leaf yellow flower), sausages and breadcrumbs, and macco di fave dried beans soup with wild
fennel. Cucciddatu is
a doughnut with pepper, cheese and sausages.
Grandmother-recipe omelettes are made with blue borage flowers and
lemon. Vastedda is
a special string cheese of sheep milk, flat as a pizza. The sweet-toothed can indulge in almond
cupcakes and cassateddi, fried sweet
ricotta-filled ravioli covered in sprinkled sugar. Contact info: case1euro@comune.sambucadisicilia.ag.it
Silvia Marchetti See pictures at https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/one-dollar-home-sambuca-sicily-italy/index.html
Learn about Italian liqueurs and spirits including
Amaretto (sweet liqueur made of almonds) and Sambuca Romana (strong, syrupy and
aromatic liqueur made with star anise and white elderflowers served as a
digestive or, with the addition of water, as a long, refreshing drink. If you order this in a restaurant, you will
typically see 3 coffee beans floating in it, signifying health, happiness and
prosperity. The number three is often
considered lucky in Italy. https://www.lifeinitaly.com/wines/the-most-famous-italian-liquors
They were the little cotton sprouts that could: a handful of
seedlings that poked themselves up from the dirt inside a small biosphere on
China's lunar lander, Chang'e-4. Yes,
the plants were stunted compared with the earthbound control plants. But they had just survived a space launch and
difficult journey to the moon, and were growing in the low gravity and high
radiation of extraterrestrial space. They
were the first plants ever to grow on the lunar surface. Now they're dead. The announcement was made at a January 16,
2019 news conference.
Much-loved poet Mary Oliver died January 17, 2019 at
her home in Florida at the age of 83. Oliver
got a lot of her ideas for poems during long walks—a habit she developed growing
up in rural Ohio. Oliver published her
first collection, No Voyage and Other Poems, in her late 20s. She went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award. Tom
Cole and Nicole Cohen Read her poem
"The Summer Day" and link to her poem "When Death
Comes," at https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/577380646/beloved-poet-mary-oliver-who-believed-poetry-mustn-t-be-fancy-dies-at-83
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com January 18, 2019 Issue 2024
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