Shaker cooks
considered lemons an important part of a healthy diet, even though
they were expensive and elusive. This
Shaker Lemon and Sage Pie speaks to the pure flavor of lemon and making
use of every bit of the fruit. Find
recipe for one 9-inch double crust pie at https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/shaker-lemon-and-sage-pie
What’s the difference
between magnanimity and generosity? There is overlap in meaning but magnanimity tends to
include a liberality of spirit and outlook--going, in a concessionary manner,
far beyond what is required by law, custom or morals, whereas generosity seems to concern
giving more/openly. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/magnanimity-generosity.2722667/
Panzanella with Hearty Greens,
Honey-Roasted Squash, and Pear is from Chicago chef Paul Kahan’s
book, Cooking for Good Times . Paul reinvigorates bread salads for us
when he reminds us that they are not just for the summer months with ripe
tomatoes. Instead, the concept
works year-round. In this recipe he
combines good-quality stale bread with roasted butternut squash, sliced pear,
wintry sturdy greens, Parmigiano cheese, and dresses it all with apple cider
vinaigrette. 6 servings https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/panzanella-with-hearty-greens-honey-roasted-squash-and-pear
Since 1959, land surveyors
and other geospatial professionals have had two standards to measure the length
of a foot—the U.S. survey foot and the international foot. Both have been supported by NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey and
the National Institute of Standards and
Technology. And they’re not exactly
equal. The difference between the two
measurements is very small and barely noticeable in everyday use and is a
function of their relationship to the standard meter. A U.S. survey foot is expressed as a
fraction—1200/3937 meters—while an international foot is expressed as a
decimal, exactly 0.3048 meters. That’s a
difference of only one one-hundredth of a foot per mile. But when you begin to measure or use
coordinates that span hundreds or thousands of miles, that minor difference can
reach a few to several feet. In such
cases, accidentally confusing the two types of feet can severely impact the
precise coordinates and measurements used in engineering, surveying, mapping,
agriculture, and other industries that depend on accurate positions. That’s why
NIST and NOAA are retiring the U.S. survey foot, and standardizing on the
international foot. And the
modernization of the National Spatial Reference System, a precise coordinate system that defines latitude, longitude, height,
scale, gravity, shoreline, and orientation throughout the U.S. in 2022, is the
perfect time to move the U.S. toward a single, uniform definition of the
foot. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/geodesy/international-foot.html
skinflint noun
"miser, one who makes use of contemptible economy to keep
money," 1700, slang; literally "kind of person who would skin a flint
to save or gain something," from skin (v.) + flint. Flay-flint in
same sense is from 1670s. Among the 18c.
slang terms for a miserly person was nipcheese (1785,
originally "a ship's purser").
https://www.etymonline.com/word/skinflint
FLINT AS EPONYM All Gummed Up is a 1947
film directed by Jules White and starring American slapstick comedy
team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 103rd short film released
by Columbia Pictures in starring the comedians, who released 190 short
films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
The Stooges operate a local drugstore whose landlord, the cantankerous
Amos Flint (Emil Sitka), informs them their lease is about to expire. All
Gummed Up was filmed from April 23–24, 1947. All Gummed Up was
remade in 1953 as Bubble Trouble, using ample recycled
footage from the original. Ironically,
the remake is considered to have a better story flow than the original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Gummed_Up
Eponym is a name/ noun
formed after a person. For instance, the
Elizabethan age pertains to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Elizabethan is an
eponym. The earliest recorded eponym
dates back to the second millennium B.C, when the Assyrians named each year
after a royal official appointed that year.
Similarly, fifth-century Athens is known as The Age of Pericles, named
after its most famous statesman. Numerous verbs have also been derived from historical
figures with their names linked with their ideas/innovations. The words boycott, chauvinist, quisling, and
sandwich originate from personal names (Charles Boycott, Nicholas Chauvin,
Major Vidkun Quisling and John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich). Roopa Banerjee https://www.educationworld.in/in-the-name-of-eponyms/
Elsie Quarterman (1910-2014)
was the first woman to serve as an academic department chair at Vanderbilt
University. She is best known for her
work on the ecology of Tennessee cedar glades, a habitat that occurs when
limestone bedrock is at or near the ground’s surface. These areas feature very shallow soil or
exposed bedrock, rendering trees unable to grow. The “cedar” in the name comes from the
abundance of eastern red cedar that grows on the margins of the glades or in
cracks in the bedrock where roots gain a foothold. Quarterman is credited with rediscovering in
1969 the native Tennessee coneflower, Echinacea
tennesseensis, a plant only found in Middle Tennessee cedar glades
and thought to be extinct. It became the
first plant endemic to Tennessee to be protected by the Endangered Species Act,
and thanks to her efforts to establish more populations within the cedar
glades, was removed from the endangered species list in August 2011. Today, Echinacea
tennesseensis can be found in Tennessee’s Davidson, Wilson and
Rutherford counties. In 1998, the
185-acre forest near LaVergne, Tennessee, where Quarterman conducted much of
her research was named the Elsie Quarterman Cedar Glade State Natural Area in
her honor. Kara Furlong
The words don and doff date from the 14th century,
and are examples of contractions of words/phrases becoming recognised words in
their own right. Don is short for do
(put) on, while doff is
short for do (take) off. Both words were commonly used for a couple of
hundred years to describe putting on or taking off any item of clothing or
attire (not just hats). For example
people spoke about donning and doffing coats, capes, gloves, etc. After going out of fashion in the 16th
century, they came back into popular use in the 17th century as a result of
Walter Scott using them in his novels. https://www.quora.com/What-is-meant-by-don-and-doff-How-did-these-terms-originate
The Faurschou Foundation (148 Green St. in Brooklyn) hosts its opening exhibition, “The Red
Bean Grows in the South.” Read the NY Times’s take on the new
gallery for more information. The show runs December 15, 2019–April 11,
2020, and is free and open to the public. The Faurschou Foundation was started in 2011
by Jens Faurschou, “a Danish collector, art advisor, and philanthropist,” with
locations in Copenhagen, Venice, and Beijing.
See pictures at https://greenpointers.com/2019/12/13/faurschou-foundation-opens-with-the-red-bean-grows-in-the-south-exhibition-sunday-12-15/
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December 18, 2019
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