Food trends come and go, but "stuff on toast" is forever.  Try sliced tomatoes with something like shrimp cooked with garlic on top of toast.  Toast is good.  Alison Roman   The New York Times



The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as the NYT and NYTimes) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.  Founded in 1851, the paper has won 127 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper.  The Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S.  The Times stayed with the broadsheet full-page set-up and an eight-column format for several years after most papers switched to six, and was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography, especially on the front page.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times



PARAPHRASES from Snapper, a novel by Brian Kimberling  * The Ten'O Clock Line is a hiking trail now, but it was an international border in 1809.  Indiana Territory lay to the north, and to the south--a loose coalition of the Miami, Delaware and Potawatomi.  *  Warblers are passionate about warbling and reticence from them is a likely sign of an intruder.  *   An Indiana town was called Santa Claus after the preferred name, Santa Fe, was already taken.  *  The Caborn-Welborn culture, a former settlement in southern Indiana, is named after its discoverers  *  Bald eagles have no diving scream--what you hear in movies are recordings of red-tailed hawks.  *  In 1987, Indiana attempted to legislate 3.2 as the value of pi so it would be more amenable to commerce  *  Here all the important national debate issues are carried out on bumper stickers and highway signs.  * 



Brian Kimberling grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and graduated from Indiana University.  As a student he was involved in a major study of songbirds, an experience central to his first novel, Snapper.  Subsequently he taught English in the Czech Republic, Mexico, and Turkey.  He now lives in England.  Link to books, events and interviews at https://briankimberling.com/about/



In Australia, a team of marine biologists is restoring a small chunk of history.  In 2018, the country began working with The Nature Conservancy to replant 7 million flat oysters across 50 acres of seafloor in a gulf near Adelaide.  *  The Key West National Wildlife Refuge in Florida has protected a chain of islands, all except for one small key.  In 2019 the 14-acre island Ballast Key joined the refuge after owner David Wolkowski donated it to the Nature Conserancy.  *   Nature Conservancy magazine  Fall 2019



Pistou is an olive oil—based basil sauce from the south of France that closely resembles Ligurian pesto.  There's only one way to make true pistou—by hand.  Tear the basil leaves into pieces first, then grind the leaves against the side of a mortar with a pestle to puree them into a silky, creamy sauce.  Like its Italian twin, pistou can also be served as an accompaniment to grilled meats, poultry, fish and vegetables.  Paula Wolfert  Find recipe at https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/classic-pistou



The Nature Conservancy's Plant a Billion Trees campaign is a major forest restoration effort with a goal of planting a billion trees across the planet.  Trees provide so many benefits to our everyday lives.  They filter clean air, provide fresh drinking water, help curb climate change, and create homes for thousands of species of plants and animals.  Planting a Billion Trees can help save the Earth from deforestation.  Learn more at https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/plant-a-billion/



Warbonnets (or war bonnets) are the impressive feather headdresses commonly seen in Western movies and TV shows.  Although warbonnets are the best-known type of Indian headdress today, they were actually only worn by a dozen or so Indian tribes in the Great Plains region, such as the Sioux, Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, and Plains Cree.  Roach headdresses (also called porcupine roaches or artificial roaches) were the most widely used kind of Indian headdress in the United States.  Read about other headdresses including basket hats and fur turbans plus see pictures at http://www.native-languages.org/headdresses.htm



Brimstone is an alternative name for sulphur, or sulfur.  Find uses such as in arts, media, and species at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimstone



The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers:  0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 . . .   The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.  The 2 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+1)  The 3 is found by adding the two numbers before it (1+2),  And the 5 is (2+3), and so on.  Fibonacci was not the first to know about the sequence, it was known in India hundreds of years.  His real name was Leonardo Pisano Bogollo, and he lived between 1170 and 1250 in Italy.  "Fibonacci" was his nickname, which roughly means "Son of Bonacci".  As well as being famous for the Fibonacci Sequence, he helped spread Hindu-Arabic Numerals (like our present numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) through Europe in place of Roman Numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, etc).  Fibonacci Day is November 23rd, as it has the digits "1, 1, 2, 3" which is part of the sequence. Read more and see graphics at https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html



Today, the first Monday of October in 2019, is designated by the United Nations as World Habitat Day to encourage reflection on the state of towns and cities, and on people’s basic right to adequate shelter.  It is also marked as World Architecture Day by the International Union of Architects.  Wikipedia 

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