Fire-and-Ice Ohio Chili Jeni Britton-Bauer adds richness to this wonderful chili with
a surprise ingredient: dark chocolate
ice cream. She loves serving the chili
over spaghetti because it has a great sauce-like consistency. Serves 8
Find recipe at https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/fire-and-ice-ohio-chili
In 2015, the Obama White House put out a call to
amateur historians to search their attics and archives for a relic of women’s
history: the original, signed copy of
the Declaration of
Sentiments and Resolutions from the 1848
Seneca Falls Convention in New York, one of the nation’s first
organized events for women’s rights. Back
then, about 300 people gathered for the two day convention in upstate New York
and more than 100 women and men signed the manifesto, declaring it time for
women to claim their rights in society. Located
in a hamlet in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, this event launched
the women’s rights movement and spawned subsequent conventions. But unlike the Declaration
of Independence—on which the Declaration of Sentiments was modeled—the
original manuscript may no longer exist.
The search yielded a few clues, but no manuscript with either notes in
the margin or signatures at the end. But
Seneca Falls did propel subsequent conventions for women’s rights, and three
years later, Susan
B. Anthony would join
the growing suffrage movement. In
September 1848, following the Rochester Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
forcefully reflected on
the ridiculousness of being excluded: “To
have the rights of drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum selling rowdies,
ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, whilst we ourselves are
thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens—it is too grossly
insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to. The right is ours, have it we must—use it we
will.” The
content of the Declaration of Sentiments is widely available. Liz Robbins and Sam Roberts https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/09/nyregion/declaration-of-sentiments-and-resolution-feminism.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage
Pugliese bread refers to the southeastern Italian
region of Apula (Puglia in Italian). The
bread falls in the rustic category because the hydration is in excess of 65
percent. Pugliese utilizes a blend of
durum and regular bread flours. See
pictures and recipe from Cathy at
https://www.breadexperience.com/pugliese-bba/ makes two 1-pound loaves (or use part or all
of the dough to make pizza)
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier.
Because it's true. It's a new
world every heart beat.” * “Nothing like
poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on
blocking up the bends. Like waves to
make the pebbles dance on my old floors.
And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good
imitations.” ―
In the words of his
biographer, Alan Bishop, Joyce Cary (1888-1957) was 'a
prolific, independent, wide-ranging writer with a place in three literatures
(English, Irish, Nigerian) difficult to categorize because his writing
integrates the traditional and experimental.'
Faber & Faber is reissuing twelve of his works: Mister Johnson, Herself
Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim, The Horse's Mouth, A
Prisoner of Grace, Except the Lord, Not Honour More, Castle
Corner, Charley is My Darling, A House of Children, The
Moonlight and A Fearful Joy.
Although never fashionable, Joyce Cary has always had his
admirers: 'This novelist has exemplified
the rule that when a writer dies, he or she may suffer a lapse in
attention. You say to someone ''Joyce
Cary'' and they say ''Who?'' Amazing!
He was a marvellous writer, fresh, funny and popping with life.' Doris Lessing https://www.faber.co.uk/author/joyce-cary/
March 8, 2019 Crab
is considered a delicacy, a dish most people are not going to make back
home. Crab legs are also easy to heap
onto the plate in a giant pile. Combine
a luxury food with the intensity of the buffet experience, and you have a
recipe for flaring tempers. In 2013, a
7-year-old and his family were kicked out of a Sarasota, Fla. buffet when the
restaurant’s staff informed the family that the boy—who suffered from
autism—was eating too many crab legs.
“Obviously ‘all-you-can-eat’ buffet was not correct and I’m upset that
my 7-year-old son’s birth day was ruined,” his mother told ABC Action
News at the time.
Three years later, a brawl broke out in a Manchester, Conn.
restaurant. According to the Hartford Courant, the
initial police report from the April 3, 2016 incident noted the fight “appears
to have started during a dispute about crab legs in the buffet line.” Multiple people were involved in the fight,
and a woman used pepper spray on another diner.
Huntsville, Ala. police officer Gerald Johnson was just trying to enjoy
his Friday evening dinner at the Meteor Buffet on Feb. 22, 2019 when the
crab-craziness sparked unrest.
“Literally, as I sat down and maybe took two bites out of my plate,”
Johnson told Huntsville’s News 19, pandemonium
struck. “There’s a woman who’s beating a
man,” Johnson recounted. “People are
moving around, plates are shattering everywhere.” The officer moved in to break up the
fracas. He watched as two diners, an
elderly man and adult woman, started fencing one another with the metal tongs
used to pick up crab legs. A day later,
and almost 1,000 miles away, a similar outburst interrupted the dinner rush at
the Queens Buffet in Queens, N.Y. On
Feb. 23. a woman—only identified by the New York Post as Christine — watched as
her 10-year-old son attempted to get some crab legs. An adult woman nudged the boy away from the
line with her hip. “I was like, ‘Can you
please do me a favor? I would appreciate
it if you kept your hands off my child.’ And the mother comes over and she was like
‘You already had the first two batches,’” Christine told the New York
Post. “I said ‘Listen, he’s
10-years-old, he’s going to grab maybe six or seven and we’re leaving. We’re gonna’ keep it moving,’" she told
the paper. When the woman then called
her a slur, she said, “everybody came over and started screaming.” A brawl exploded inside the restaurant.
Video from the fight showed hair pulling
and flailing arms. According to the
restaurant’s manager, Budi Chan, two groups mixed it up, one pack of 16 people
facing off against a group of seven.
Kyle Swenson https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/08/crab-legs-sparked-brawl-buffet-day-later-hundreds-miles-away-it-happened-again/?utm_term=.a5f3401fecfe
LONGSWORD DANCING Although commonly referred to
as Sword dancing, there are two distinct forms.
The sword of the north east of England tends to be a double-handled
flexible metal strip known as a rapper. In Yorkshire the implement is more
sword-like, being single-handled, and rigid and called a longsword. The dance is basically six or eight men in a
circle, each holding the end of his neighbours sword. They perform circling and intertwining
“figures” without breaking the circle or letting go the swords, except at the
climax of the dance when the swords are interlocked to form the “lock” which is
then held aloft. The traditional time of
performance is Christmas and after, although nowadays, many teams may be seen
throughout the year at festivals, fetes and concerts. https://themorrisring.org/about-morris/longsword See also List of Morris and Sword Sides by Dance Style at http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/morris/style.html
and Morris Dancing, Sword Dancing,
Clog Dancing etc at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLq-p1Oyhj0 9:30
Over 20 groups performed on the streets of Lincoln - Saturday September
6th, 2014.
The Eastern Screech-Owl, a robin-sized nightbird, does not
screech; the voice of this species features whinnies and soft trills. https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-screech-owl
The
Western
Screech-Owl's most distinctive
vocalization is its "bouncing ball" song: a series of 5–9 short, whistled hoots,
speeding up ping-pong-ball fashion toward the end. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Screech-Owl/sounds
Owls don't have eyeballs.
The eyes are long and shaped more like a tube. Owl eyes can't turn in their sockets because
of this shape. Owls and the
related nightjars (including Whip-poor-wills and nighthawks) are among the only
birds that have a larger upper eyelid than lower eyelid. That, their forward-facing eyes, and
feather-covering at the base of their beak, make them appear more human-like
than other birds. Their human-sounding
voices are one reason so many cultures throughout the world have stories and
folklore about owls. https://journeynorth.org/tm/spring/OwlFacts.html
Reader feedback to story on size of
Detroit: Detroit
at 140 square miles is quite small when one considers Jacksonville, Florida at
nearly 875 sq. miles. However,
Jacksonville incorporated the entire county.
Thank you, Muse reader!
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2061
March 12, 2019
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