Now You Too Can Bake Like
Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season--7
Delicious Recipes from a Great American Poet by Emily Temple According to
the Emily Dickinson Museum website,
Dickinson wrote many poems in the kitchen—often on the backs of labels, recipes
and other papers, and these reveal that the kitchen “was a space of creative
ferment for her, and that the writing of poetry mixed in her life with the
making of delicate treats.” https://lithub.com/now-you-too-can-bake-like-emily-dickinson-this-holiday-season/
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Ten Nonfiction Reads of 2019 from A Cocoon of Books https://cocoonofbooks.blogspot.com/
LUCKY FOODS Long noodles are lucky--they represent a long
life. Rice has
a history of being associated with wealth.
Rice dishes are wonderful for the New Year. Grains and pasta swell
which means your prosperity might swell. Ring-shaped foods represent the
year coming full circle, pork is good because pigs
"root forward" with their noses (symbolizes progress), leafy greens
resemble folded paper money.
Eat
black-eyed peas and leafy greens for good luck on New Year's Day. Add a slice of cornbread, and you've got
"peas for pennies, greens for dollars, and cornbread for gold." Read about seven lucky foods on New Year's
Day and see pictures at http://dish.allrecipes.com/new-years-day-lucky-foods/
Happiness
Soup
18 oz. (two large) yellow squash, unpeeled and diced; zest and juice
of one lemon; 3 tbsp. olive oil; 1 tsp. turmeric; 4 c. chicken or vegetable
stock, 4 oz. (1/2 cup) basmati rice; salt and pepper. Cook squash, lemon and zest with olive oil
gently for about 5 min, stirring occasionally.
Stir in turmeric and rice. Cook
uncovered for 10-20 min. Add salt and
pepper to taste. Serve warm. 4 servings
adapted from Nigella Lawson, Forever
Summer
17 Classic Polish Recipes
to Make for Wigilia Cook Up a Special
Christmas Eve Feast by Cathy Jacobs Wigilia—derived from the Latin term "vigil"—is the
traditional Christmas Eve supper in Poland.
Also known as the Star Supper, Wigilia is the main focus of Polish
Christmas celebrations. The meal begins
after the first star appears in the sky on the evening of December 24th.
PFEFFERNUSSE (GERMAN
PEPPER NUT COOKIES ) by Zookeenee https://www.food.com/recipe/pfeffernusse-german-pepper-nut-cookies-79103 Christmas cookie recipes—more than 650 to
choose from--be the talk of the cookie exchange. https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/841/holidays-and-events/christmas/desserts/christmas-cookies/
Right now, parents,
grandparents, and aunts and uncles across Maine are whipping up Needhams—essentially,
shredded coconut, powdered sugar and mashed potatoes (and butter in some
recipes), which is shaped into a square or rectangle and dipped into semi-sweet
melted chocolate. Emily Burnham Read more and see recipe at https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/08/living/food/this-iconic-maine-candy-is-named-for-a-colorful-19th-century-preacher-who-isnt-from-maine/
Thank you, Muse reader!
The 10 Best Literary TV
Adaptations of the Decade and then some
by Emily Temple List includes Justified (based on “Fire in
the Hole” by Elmore Leonard) and Mindhunters (based on Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s
Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
(1995). https://lithub.com/the-10-best-literary-tv-adaptations-of-the-decade/
December 29, 2019
Britain's Big Ben bell in
Parliament's landmark clock tower will ring at midnight on New Year's Eve,
marking the start of a year for the first time since its new face was revealed
from under scaffolding halfway through restoration work. The work has seen the 96-metre-tall Elizabeth
Tower, one of the most photographed buildings in Britain, enveloped in
scaffolding for the last two years as the four clock dials are reglazed,
ironwork repainted and intricately carved stonework cleaned and repaired. In March, part of the scaffolding was
removed, showing that the clock's once black numerals and hands have been
repainted blue, in line with what scientists say was its original colour. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/29/big-ben-set-ring-new-year-first-time-since-start-restoration/
With Greta Gerwig’s
cinematic adaptation of Little Women releasing
at the end of December 2019, Christmas won’t be Christmas this year without
books to delight Louisa May Alcott fans.
Since its original publication in 1868, Little
Women has enjoyed remarkable staying power in American
culture, including six film versions, six television adaptations, a Broadway
musical, and an opera. So what is it
about this story that continues to fascinate us? For generations of fans, the March sisters,
each with their own distinct characteristics, have provided a kind of
Myers-Briggs-like personality test for readers to project their own identities. Many notable women, including Helen Keller,
Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Ursula Le Guin, Gloria Steinem, and Hillary Clinton,
have cited Jo as the inspiration behind their own ambitions. No matter which sister is most relatable, the
story of four young women navigating the challenging terrain that spans between
adolescence and adulthood has felt familiar to many, and it resonated with me
so much that I set out to write my own novel inspired by Louisa and May, the
two sisters who had always most intrigued me.
While writing The Other Alcott, I
studied everything I could find that connected to the story of this quirky
family. All of this is to say that I’ve
developed a broad list of books that will appeal to readers who value Louisa
May Alcott and all that she represents.
Included in the list are: The Little Women
Cookbook: Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their Friends and
Family by Wini Moranville, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Invention of
Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, and March by Geraldine Brooks. Elise Hooper https://lithub.com/the-ubiquity-of-little-women-11-books-inspired-by-the-march-family/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2203
December 30, 2019
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