Nick Stellino (born 1958) is a Sicilian-American and Italian-American television chef.  One half of his family is from Northern Italy and the other half is Sicilian.  He hosts the cooking programs Cucina Amore and Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen on public television station KCTS 9 in Seattle, Washington.  Stellino began by hosting three seasons of Cucina Amore.  His other main cooking show was Nick Stellino's Family Kitchen; both were presented by KCTS, a PBS-affiliated television station in Seattle.  His most recent show, Nick Stellino:  Storyteller in the Kitchen, was presented by WCNY, the PBS station in Syracuse, New York.   Stellino's current shows are distributed by American Public Television.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Stellino  Find Nick Stellino recipes at  http://www.nickstellino.net/Recipes/Menu/?men=-2

The word photography comes from the Greek words photos, meaning light, and graphein meaning writing.  Every time you take a picture, you are writing in light.  The Year of Fog, a novel by Michelle Richmond

pronunciation of food words  bouillon:  “Boo-YAWN” or “BOO-yawn”   Gouda:  “HOW-dah”

mascarpone:  “mahs-kar-POH-nay”   croissant:  “kwah-SAHN”   Gyro:  “YEE-roh” or “HEE-roh" Please take the “x” out of espresso.  Ron James  https://ronjamesitaliankitchen.blogspot.com/2015/05/food-words-even-chefs-mispronounce.html

Dokk1 or Dokken is a building, public library and culture center in Aarhus, Denmark.  It is situated on Hack Kampmanns Plads in the city center by the waterfront next to the Custom House.  Dokk1 is part of the much larger development project Urban Mediaspace Aarhus, jointly financed by Aarhus Municipality and Realdania for 2.1 billion DKK.  It is designed by schmidt hammer lassen architects and Kristine Jensen, with construction managed by NCC AB.  Construction broke ground 8 June 2011 and the building was inaugurated four years later on 20 June 2015.  The name of the building was determined by a public contest held in the autumn of 2012.  The combination of letters and number can be pronounced as "dokken", "dok én" or "dok ét", meaning The Dock or Dock One in English.  The term references the location on the former industrial harbor by the waterfront.  In the planning for the project, 1% of the cost was set aside for art and decoration.  Above the central staircase in the library hangs a large bronze pipe bell designed by Kirstine Roepstorff.  It is 25 feet long, 2.5 feet wide and weighs close to 3 metric tonnes.  The bell is connected to the Aarhus University Hospital where parents can push a button to activate it when their newborns have been successfully delivered.  Outside, below the central staircase and in the ceiling of the underground carpark, is another large art installation, known as Magic Mushrooms.  Invented by the Berlin-based art-cooperative Elmgreen & Dragset, Magic Mushrooms consists of a 300 m2 downscaled 1:100 model of an imaginary city, turned upside down.  In 2016, Dokk1 was named Public Library of the Year by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dokk1

“Never is an awfully long time.”  "Life is a long lesson in humility."  “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”  Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight:  always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”  James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)

Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression’s Bookmobiles--During the Great Depression, a New Deal program brought books to Kentuckians living in remote areas by Eliza McGraw   The Pack Horse Library initiative, which sent librarians deep into Appalachia, as implemented by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), distributed reading material to the people who lived in the craggy, 10,000-square-mile portion of eastern Kentucky.  The state already trailed its neighbors in electricity and highways.  And during the Depression, food, education and economic opportunity were even scarcer for Appalachians.  They also lacked books:  In 1930, up to 31 percent of people in eastern Kentucky couldn’t read.  Residents wanted to learn, notes historian Donald C. Boyd.  In 1935, Kentucky only circulated one book per capita compared to the American Library Association standard of five to ten, writes historian Jeanne Cannella Schmitzer,.  It was "a distressing picture of library conditions and needs in Kentucky," wrote Lena Nofcier, who chaired library services for the Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers at the time.  There had been previous attempts to get books into the remote region.  In 1913, a Kentuckian named May Stafford solicited money to take books to rural people on horseback, but her project only lasted one year.  Local Berea College sent a horse-drawn book wagon into the mountains in the late teens and early 1920s.  But that program had long since ended by 1934, when the first WPA-sponsored packhorse library was formed in Leslie County.  Unlike many New Deal projects, the packhorse plan required help from locals.  "Libraries" were housed any in facility that would step up, from churches to post offices.  Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books, and headed into the hills.  Soon, word of the campaign spread, and books came from half of the states in the country.  A Kentuckian who had moved to California sent 500 books as a memorial to his mother.  One Pittsburgh benefactor collected reading material and told a reporter stories she'd heard from packhorse librarians.  "Let the book lady leave us something to read on Sundays and at night when we get through hoeing the corn," one child asked, she said.  Others sacrificed to help the project, saving pennies for a drive to replenish book stocks and buy four miniature hand-cranked movie machines.  In 1936, packhorse librarians served 50,000 families, and, by 1937, 155 public schools. Children loved the program; many mountain schools didn't have libraries, and since they were so far from public libraries, most students had never checked out a book.  The Pack Horse Library ended in 1943 after Franklin Roosevelt ordered the end of the WPA.  The new war effort was putting people back to work, so WPA projects—including the Pack Horse Library—tapered off.  That marked the end of horse-delivered books in Kentucky, but by 1946, motorized bookmobiles were on the move.  Once again, books rode into the mountains, and, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Kentucky’s public libraries had 75 bookmobiles in 2014—the largest number in the nation.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horse-riding-librarians-were-great-depression-bookmobiles-180963786/

Kraft Heinz has introduced "Salad Frosting," with the sweet tooth-invoking word right there on the label.  But here's the catch:  It's just a slim tube of ranch dressing, relabeled so parents can trick kids into happily eating their vegetables.  It's also worth noting that ranch dressing isn't exactly the healthiest option for kids--or grown-ups.  Just 2 tablespoons Kraft's version has 110 calories, 11 grams of fat and 290 milligrams of sodium.  The same amount of Betty Crocker vanilla frosting has more calories--140--but just 5 grams of fat and 70 milligrams of sodium.  Leah Asmelash and Brian Ries  https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/11/business/salad-frosting-trnd/index.html  Kraft released Salad Frosting June 10, 2019 as part of its #LieLikeaParent campaign.

Who was Snow White’s brother?  Egg White, get the yolk?  Thank you, Muse reader!

WORD OF THE DAY  Bloviation (countable and uncountable, plural bloviations)  (US, possibly originally Ohio, informal) A boastful or pompous manner of speaking or writing; a lengthy discourse delivered in that manner. [from mid 19th c.]  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bloviation#English

On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress took a break from writing the Articles of Confederation and passed a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white,” and that “the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”  In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson marked the anniversary of that decree by officially establishing June 14 as Flag Day.  Bernard Cigrand, a small-town Wisconsin teacher, originated the idea for an annual flag day, to be celebrated across the country every June 14, in 1885.  In the 1950s, when it seemed certain that Alaska would be admitted to the Union, designers began retooling the American flag to add a 49th star to the existing 48.  Meanwhile, a 17-year-old Ohioan named Bob Heft student borrowed his mother’s sewing machine, disassembled his family’s 48-star flag and stitched on 50 stars in a proportional pattern.  He handed in his creation to his history teacher for a class project, explaining that he expected Hawaii would soon achieve statehood as well.  Heft also sent the flag to his congressman, Walter Moeller, who presented it to President Eisenhower after both new states joined the Union.  Eisenhower selected Heft’s design, and on July 4, 1960, the president and the high school student stood together as the 50-star flag was raised for the first time.  Heft’s teacher promptly changed his grade from a B- to an A.  https://www.history.com/news/95-years-of-flag-day

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2110  June 14, 2019