picadillo  Chef David Guas describes this traditional Cuban ground-beef stew with raisins, onions, olives and tomato as an “à la minute chili.”  According to him, it’s a simple dish with countless variations.  Find recipe at https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/picadillo  The picadillo can be refrigerated up to 3 days.



Aldrovanda is a free-floating and rootless aquatic plant.  This plant is closely related to the Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula, and shares many of its attributes--it functions as a snap-trap carnivore, just under water!  A common name for it is the waterwheel plant because a single whorl of leaves, cut from a stem, is wheel-like.  The genus name commemorates the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605).  In fact, the name for the genus was originally "Aldrovandia", but Linnaeus misspelled this, and we use the incorrect spelling even today.  Each leaf in a whorl terminates in a little clam-like trap.  Just like the traps of a Venus flytrap, the trap lobes of Aldrovanda contain trigger hairs.  When stimulated, these cause the traps to close.  The closure takes about 1/4 to 1/2 second, which is impressive when you reflect upon the fact that the trap lobes must push water as they close.  If no prey is captured, the trap reopens in ten to twenty hours.  http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5040.html



As nouns the difference between affiliation and filiation is that affiliation is the relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another while filiation is (uncountable) the condition of being a child of a specified parent.  https://wikidiff.com/affiliation/filiation  Filiation and Affiliation is a book by Harold W. Scheffler



Pesto, or to refer to the original dish pesto alla genovese, is a sauce originating in Genoa, the capital city of Liguria, Italy.  It traditionally consists of crushed garlic, European pine nuts, coarse salt, basil leaves, hard cheese such as Parmigiano-Reggiano (also known as Parmesan cheese) or Pecorino Sardo (cheese made from sheep's milk), all blended with olive oil.  The name is the past participle of the Genoese verb pestâ (Italian:  pestare), which means "to pound", "to crush", in reference to the original method of preparation.  According to tradition, the ingredients are "crushed" or ground in a marble mortar through a circular motion of a wooden pestle.  This same Latin root, through Old French, also gave rise to the English noun pestle.  Strictly speaking, pesto is a generic term for anything that is made by pounding; that is why the word is used for several pestos in Italy.  Nonetheless, pesto alla genovese ("Genoese pesto") remains the most popular pesto in Italy and the rest of the world.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesto



The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.  Programs are recognized in seven categories:  news, entertainment, documentaries, children's programming, education, interactive programming, and public service.  Peabody Award winners include radio and television stations, networks, online media, producing organizations, and individuals from around the world.  Established in 1940 by a committee of the National Association of Broadcasters, the Peabody Award was created to honor excellence in radio broadcasting.  It is the oldest major electronic media award in the United States.  Final Peabody Award winners are selected unanimously by the program's Board of Jurors.  Reflecting excellence in quality storytelling, rather than popularity or commercial success, Peabody Awards are distributed annually to 30 out of 60 finalists culled from more than 1,000 entries.  Because submissions are accepted from a wide variety of sources and styles, deliberations seek "Excellence On Its Own Terms".  Each entry is evaluated on the achievement of standards established within its own context.  Entries, for which a US$350 fee (US$225 for radio) is required, are self-selected by those making submissions.  Link to list of Peabody Awards winners at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Award



overcover  verb  From Middle English overcoveren, equivalent to over- +‎ cover.  (third-person singular simple present overcovers, present participle overcovering, simple past and past participle overcovered)  (transitive)  To cover over.  The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.  (transitive)  To give too much coverage (as for example on television).  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overcover



Literary Wine Labels by Tasha Brandstatter   VICTOR HUGO LES MIS 2017  A literary rosé for you to enjoy out on the deck with a good book.  The Victor Hugo winery in Paso Robles, California, is owned by Victor Hugo Roberts.  No relation to the literary giant, but that doesn’t stop the winery from cashing in on the mystique of everyone’s favorite 19th-century French wordsmith.  Not only do they produce Les Mis, but there’s also a Hunchback estate blend.  IF YOU SEE KAY 2014  “If you see Kay” is a line cribbed from James Joyce’s Ulysses.  J. BOOKWALTER SUBPLOT NO. 32 2015  J. BOOKwalter Winery is a literary-themed winery in Columbia Valley.  Not only do they give their wines book-inspired names like Subplot, Foreshadow, Protagonist, etc.; they have a wine club called The Book Club and a restaurant in their tasting room called Fiction whose tagline is, “Literally the best of Washington Wine and Food.”  And, praise be, they use the word literally correctly:  Fiction’s been listed as one of the top ten tasting room restaurants in the nation by USA Today, Food & Wine, Zagat, and other publications.  Bonny Doon Vineyard A Proper Claret  2015  On the back of the label there’s a short story about what a bloke’s got to do to get a proper claret (a lot).  As for the wine, claret is what the Brits call Burgundy, so you know what you’re getting:  a Burgundy-style blend with plenty of Cabernet Sauvignon for tannins and Petit Verdot for acidity, with Merlot, Cab Franc, and Malbec thrown in.  https://bookriot.com/2018/06/25/more-literary-wines/



The National Book Festival is a literary festival in the United States organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, founded by Laura Bush and James H. Billington in 2001.  In 1995 the First Lady of Texas Laura Bush (a former librarian) founded the Texas Book Festival with Mary Margaret Farabee and other volunteers.  The goal of the festival was to honor Texas authors, promote the joys of reading, and benefit the state’s public libraries.  The first Texas Book Festival took place in November 1996.  As First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush worked with Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to create the National Book Festival.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Festival



National Book Festival August 31, 2019  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The audience can see that I am alive)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDNPM6gj12Y  David McCullough (thanked librarians and archivists for helping in his research, praised especially Marietta College librarian and the library  *  my ambition to write began at the Library of Congress  *  we are all in need of immigrants)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki2DSqwWbHY  David Brooks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gNvAtL00U  Richard Ford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSztbKegZvo Raina Telgemeier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fer_AxcCv8E



September 1, 2019  A Roman Catholic school in Tennessee has banished JK Rowling's universally popular series of Harry Potter novels from its library shelves after its pastor took exception to their portrayal of magic, warning the spells and curses the author describes are real and “risk conjuring evil spirits” when read.  The Reverend Dan Reehill explained his decision in an email to the parents of students at St Edward Catholic School in Nashville, declaring that he had consulted with exorcists in the US and at the Vatican before outlawing the seven-volume tale of the boy wizard’s career at Hogwarts and his battle against Lord Voldermort and the forces of darkness.  “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception.  The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text,” the Reverend Reehill wrote, apparently in all seriousness.  Joe Sommerlad  See J.K. Rowling's hidden Harry Potter sketches at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/harry-potter-banned-school-library-nashville-tennessee-exorcist-a9087676.html



A THOUGHT FOR TODAY  Form follows function. - Louis Sullivan, architect (3 Sep 1856-1924)



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