Jarvey or jarvie may refer to:  The driver of a jaunting car or Coachman, often referred to as a "jarvey" or "jarvie".  In literature:  The Jarvey (newspaper), a weekly comic newspaper edited by Percy French or The Adventure of the Laughing Jarvey, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche written by Stephen Fryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvey

The Jarvey, a fictional creature, resembles an overgrown ferret, and is commonly found in Great Britain, Ireland, and North America.  The Jarvey is capable of human speech, although true conversation with a Jarvey is impossible.  The creature uses short, usually rude, statements and phrases in an almost constant stream.  https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Jarvey

We now have a Not the Booker longlist--and it’s a very, very long longlist.  We have more than 200 eligible books this year, which is a record for the competition.  It’s also a fantastic endorsement of the work writers and publishers have been doing in this past year, in spite of … everything.  Not to mention a welcome reminder of the enthusiasm and generosity of readers and all those who have taken the time to nominate their favourite book published between October 2019 and September 2020.  See the list of nominated titles and read the rules for voting in order to have your vote counted at https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/aug/03/not-the-booker-prize-longlist-vote-now-to-decide-the-2020-shortlist 

If a Dominican person asks if you want to die dreaming, don’t wax poetic—just say yes.  Morir soñando, a morbidly-named summertime refresher (it literally means “to die dreaming”), has been called the official drink of summer in the Dominican Republic.  The frothy, silky blend of orange juice, sugar, and evaporated milk over crushed ice is reminiscent of a drinkable creamsicle.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/morir-sonando-dominican-republic?utm_source=Gastro+Obscura+Weekly+E-mail&utm_campaign=8c66115832-GASTRO_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2418498528-8c66115832-71793902&mc_cid=8c66115832&mc_eid=aef0869a63 

You're probably familiar with "inherent," the adjective meaning "part of the constitution or natural character of something," but were you aware of its less common relative "inhere"?  This verb looks like it could be a back-formation of "inherent" (a back-formation is a word created by removing a prefix or suffix from an existing word).  But "inhere" is actually the older word.  It first appeared in print in the 15th century, while "inherent" didn't show up until the late 16th century.  Both are derived from the Latin verb inhaerēre ("to inhere"), which was itself formed by combining "in-" with "haerēre," a verb meaning "to adhere."  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inhere 

An amateur treasure-hunter has uncovered one of the most significant Bronze Age hoards ever found in Scotland, including jewelry and a 3,000-year-old sword, authorities said August 10, 2020.  Metal detectorist Mariusz Stepien said he was "shaking with happiness" when he made the discovery in June, in a field near the village of Peebles, about 22 miles (36 kilometers) south of Edinburgh.  "I thought I've never seen anything like this before and felt from the very beginning that this might be something spectacular and I've just discovered a big part of Scottish history," he said.  Stepien and his friends contacted the Scottish government's Treasure Trove unit and camped in the field for 22 days as archaeologists uncovered the assemblage of artifacts.  These included a complete horse harness, buckles, rings, ornaments, a sword still in its scabbard and axle caps from a chariot.  They, and the dirt around them, are now at the National Museums Collection Center in Edinburgh.  https://phys.org/news/2020-08-treasure-hunter-year-old-hoard-scotland.html 

Between 1886, when the first American suffragist cookbook was published, and 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote, there were at least a half-dozen cookbooks published by suffragette associations in the country.  These books were the descendants of the post-Civil War charity cookbooks, published to raise funds for war victims and church-related issues.  The suffrage cookbooks came garnished with propaganda for the Great Cause: the fight for getting women the right to vote.  Recipes ranged from basic guidelines on brewing tea and boiling rice, to epicurean ones for Almond Parfait and the ever-popular Lady Baltimore Cake, a layered Southern confection draped in boiled meringue frosting.  Occasionally, there was a startling entry, such as that for Emergency Salad:  one-tenth onion and nine-tenths apple with any salad dressing.  But the bulk comprised a soothing flow of soups, gravies, breads, roasts, pies, omelets, salads, pickles and puddings.  On Dec. 13, 1886, America's first suffragist cookbook, The Woman's Suffrage Cook Book, was launched on a drizzly but sold-out evening at a fundraiser at the Boston music hall.  The hall was decorated with a white banner bearing the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association motto, "Male and female created He them, and gave them dominion."  Members included the novelist Louisa May Alcott, who would become the first woman registered to vote in Concord.  Though she hadn't contributed a recipe, Alcott had just published Jo's Boys, the final book of her Little Women series, into which she had slipped in a droll description of a statue of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, sporting a "Women's Rights" slogan on her shield and a helmet ornamented with "a tiny pestle and mortar"—a divine nod to the compatibility between cooking and voting.  Nina Martyris  https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/05/454246666/how-suffragists-used-cookbooks-as-a-recipe-for-subversion 

The mamey sapote grows into an open tree with a thick central trunk and a few large limbs.  Mamey sapote trees are large, erect to spreading trees that may grow to a height of about 40 feet (12.2 m) in Florida and may exceed 60 feet (18.3 m) in more tropical regions.  Seedling trees begin to bear fruit after 7 years or longer.  Grafted trees begin to bear in 3 to 5 years.  Mature trees may bear 200 to 500 fruit per year.  Twice this amount may be obtained from large trees.  https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg331  See Cooking with Mamey Sapote a https://www.tropicalfruitgrowers.com/mamey-sapote-recipes

Before the New York Times best-seller list, there was The Bookman.  Founded in 1895, the illustrated monthly literary journal was the only place to find out what were supposed to be the country’s top-selling books and remained so until 1912, when Publishers Weekly began producing its own best-seller lists.  The Bookman’s first editor, Harry Thurston Peck, a Latin professor at Columbia, took his inspiration for the lists from a monthly British magazine combining industry news and book reviews with poetry, essays, and serialized books that was also called The Bookman, founded in 1891.  Subtitled A Monthly Journal for Bookreaders, Bookbuyers, and Booksellers, it served as a kind of model for its American namesake.  Published by the major New York publishing house Dodd, Mead, and Company, The Bookman offered its readers bookish news, profiles of prominent authors and their work, both long and short reviews of new books, and, of course, lists of best-selling books.  These lists, with all their vagaries and inaccuracies, began to shape discussions about popular literature almost immediately.  Books that appeared on these lists, whether or not they were truly the top-selling books of their day, became best sellers because the lists said they were.  Elizabeth Della Zazzera  https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/power-flawed-lists           

Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.  Prickly pears are also known as tuna (fruit), sabra, nopal (paddle, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word nōpalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nōchtli for the fruit; or paddle cactus.  The genus is named for the Ancient Greek city of Opus, where, according to Theophrastus, an edible plant grew and could be propagated by rooting its leaves.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia  See How to Cut and Prepare Prickly Pears at https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_cut_and_prepare_prickly_pears/ 

It’s no surprise that writers, musicians, and other artists locally and around the world are using their creativity to figure out new ways to connect, share, and create art.  Many writing groups and book groups are holding their sessions online.  https://literarynorth.org/blog/tag/Friday+Reads 

On a late night talk show August 11, 2020, author Yiyun Li revealed that she reads Moby Dick and War and Peace every year.  

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