July 3, 2019 German butcher Charles Feltman arrived in
America in 1856 at 15 years old, already familiar with the frankfurter
from his home country. According to
the Coney Island History Project,
Charles Feltman began his career in 1867 pushing a pie wagon through the sand
dunes of Coney Island. Four years later
he leased a small plot of land and began building an empire that by the early
1900s covered a full city block and consisted of nine restaurants, a roller
coaster, a carousel, a ballroom, an outdoor movie theater, a hotel, a beer
garden, a bathhouse, a pavilion, a Tyrolean village, two enormous bars and a
maple garden. By the 1920s, Feltman’s
Ocean Pavilion was considered the largest restaurant in the entire world,
serving more than five million customers a year and selling 40,000 hot dogs a
day. Legend has it that Feltman decided
to put his pork sausage on a bun as a way to avoid providing plates and
cutlery. The hot dogs, which were known
as Coney Island red hots, sold for ten cents each, but interestingly, it
was the restaurant’s shore dinner, a seafood platter of lobster, fish, and
oysters, that was most popular at the restaurant. Feltman’s was such a success that even
President Taft and Diamond Jim Brady stopped by. But in 1916, a Polish-American employee
of Feltman’s named Nathan Handwerker changed the course of hot dog history
forever. Handwerker sliced rolls and ran
hot dogs to the grilling stations. Two of his buddies, performers Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante, encouraged him to start his own
business, so for the next year he ate free hot dogs and slept on the
kitchen floor to save his $11/week paycheck.
Once he saved $300, he opened his own restaurant just a few blocks
away on Surf Avenue. Before long,
Nathan’s Famous became the go-to spot on the Coney Island boardwalk, gaining
fame for its hot dogs, which Handwerker sold for five cents, half the price of
Feltman’s. But Michael Quinn, a Coney Island historian and lover
of the Coney Island red hot, has been determined to bring Feltman’s back.
Four summers ago, he started a pop-up Feltman’s that moved around the
city. The following year, Quinn began crowdfunding to
supply the Feltman’s label to local restaurants, and he’s since taken them into
local grocery stores, including Fairway, as well as mail order, where they
retail for $12 for a six-pack. The
biggest news came in the summer of 2017 when Quinn’s Feltman’s
of Coney Island Restaurant replaced the Cyclone Cafe and a White Castle on
West 10th and Surf Avenue-–the original Feltman’s location. He had worked out a licensing agreement with
Luna Park to operate in the space and was even training his staff to prepare the
hot dog in the original Coney Island way.
However, this past January, Luna Park did not renew Quinn’s licensing
agreement and instead gave the space to an operator selling Nathan’s hot
dogs. Dana Schulz https://www.6sqft.com/before-nathans-there-was-feltmans-the-history-of-the-coney-island-hot-dog/ January 31, 2020 Feltman's Original Casing Hot Dog 1-lb.
6-Packs and Feltman's Skinless Hot Dogs 1-lb. 10-Packs have officially hit
Whole Foods Market shelves throughout Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Washington
D.C., Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Florida. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/feltmans-of-coney-islandthe-original-hot-dog-brandlaunches-at-whole-foods-market-300996892.html
Jack
Allan Abramoff (born February 28,
1959) is an American
lobbyist, businessman, movie producer and writer. He was at
the center of an extensive corruption investigation led by Earl Devaney that resulted in his conviction
and to 21 people either pleading guilty or being found
guilty, including White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and
congressional aides. Abramoff was College
Republican National Committee National Chairman from 1981 to
1985, a founding member of the International
Freedom Foundation, allegedly financed by apartheid
South Africa, and served on the board of directors of the National
Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank.
From 1994 to 2001 he was a top lobbyist for the firm of Preston Gates
& Ellis, and then for Greenberg Traurig until March 2004. After a guilty plea in the Jack
Abramoff Native American lobbying scandal and his dealings
with SunCruz Casinos in
January 2006, he was sentenced to six years in federal prison for mail fraud, conspiracy to
bribe public officials, and tax evasion. He served 43 months before being released on
December 3, 2010. After his release from
prison, he wrote the autobiographical book Capitol
Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most
Notorious Lobbyist which was published in November
2011. Abramoff's lobbying and the
surrounding scandals and investigation are the subject of two 2010 films: the documentary Casino
Jack and the United States of Money, released in May
2010, and the feature film Casino Jack, released on December 17,
2010, starring Kevin Spacey as
Abramoff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff Abramoff pleaded
guilty in 2006 to a wide-ranging influence peddling probe that involved Capitol
Hill, the Interior Department and members of President George W. Bush’s
administration. He was convicted of
conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion and served nearly four years in prison. He was released in 2010. Prosecutors said in 2017 Abramoff lobbied
members of Congress on behalf of a California-based marijuana industry client
without registering as a lobbyist. “Abramoff
was aware of the obligations to register as a lobbyist in part because Congress
amended provisions of the Lobbying Disclosure Act in 2007 in part as a reaction
to Abramoff’s past conduct as a lobbyist,” court documents say. Olga R. Rodriguez https://www.seattletimes.com/business/lobbyist-abramoff-charged-in-cryptocurrency-fraud-case/
Buckwheat belongs to a
group of foods commonly called pseudocereals.
Pseudocereals are seeds that are consumed as cereal grains but don’t
grow on grasses. Other common
pseudocereals include quinoa and amaranth.
Despite its name, buckwheat is not related to wheat and is thus
gluten-free. It’s used in buckwheat tea
or processed into groats, flour, and noodles.
The groats, used in much the same way as rice, are the main ingredient
in many traditional European and Asian dishes.
Buckwheat has become popular as a health food due to its high mineral
and antioxidant content. Its benefits
may include improved blood sugar control.
Two types of buckwheat, common buckwheat (Fagopyrum
esculentum) and Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum
tartaricum), are most widely grown for food. Buckwheat is mainly harvested in the northern
hemisphere, especially in Russia, Kazakhstan, China, and Central and Eastern
Europe. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/buckwheat#bottom-line
17 Buckwheat
Recipes That'll Make You a Believer by ELYSSA GOLDBERG
Anonymous Quote:
Recollections of 1900’s immigrant “I came to America because I heard the streets were
paved with gold. When I got here, found
out three things: First, the streets
weren’t paved with gold; second, they weren’t paved at all: and third, I was expected to pave them.” posted by Ruka
Why
Ina Garten’s Chocolate Cake Is the Only One I’ll Ever Make by GRACE ELKUS https://www.thekitchn.com/ina-gartens-chocolate-cake-262105
Sarasota joins the cities
turning to adaptive reuse of a once vibrant space, in this case the 1927 Sarasota High School building on South Tamiami Trail, to make a new home for art, artists,
art students and art lovers in general. The
Sarasota Art Museum on the Ringling College Museum Campus (SAM for short)
officially opened its doors to the public in December 2019 after years of fund
raising, design modifications and construction work. It’s been a long time
coming. The historic Sarasota High
building, with its Collegiate Gothic style design by M. Leo Elliott (now the
Elliott Building), welcomed its last public school students 23 years ago. Its future was up for grabs, with numerous
entities vying to take charge of it.
Plans for a contemporary art museum—a “kunsthalle,” meaning a museum
without a permanent collection that would focus instead on presenting, in this
case, post-World War II to contemporary art—won out. Eventually the budding museum partnered with
the ever-expanding Ringling College of Art and Design, so that the college’s
continuing studies classes share space in the three-story redesign with the
museum’s own educational efforts. Along
the way, the museum also acquired two adjacent properties, The Works, a former
furniture showroom designed in 1959 by Sarasota School of Architecture luminary Victor Lundy (although Lundy’s original design was later, sadly, all but
obliterated in later uses for the building); and then in 2015, the Rudolph
Building designed in 1959, by acclaimed architect Paul Rudolph. The Rudolph adds 18,000
square feet to the overall space, housing classrooms, a café and a multipurpose
meeting room. Lawson Group Architects
and architectural firm Keenan/Riley are responsible for the adaptive work on
the Rudolph and the Elliott Building, which was named to the National Register
of Historic Places in 1984. Kay Kipling https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/arts-and-entertainment/2019/12/sarasota-art-museum-opens-its-doors-to-the-public
RAINBOW
BEAN SALAD WITH SWEET AND SOUR DRESSING posted by Sue https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/rainbow-bean-salad-with-sweet-and-sour-dressing-recipe/
Duke Energy and Dominion
Energy are pulling the plug on the proposed $8 billion pipeline under the
Appalachian Trail as companies continue to meet environmental opposition to new
fossil fuel conduits in the U.S. The
Wall Street Journal July 6, 2020
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2295
July 6, 2020
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