Bone up  To renew, refresh, or master a skill quickly, usually before an important event that requires it.  This phrasal verb means to study, to prepare, or to get well acquainted with a subject through close study.  When an exam, quiz, or presentation is imminent, it is common to bone up on the subject to prepare oneself before being required to know and use them.  The phrase was originally military academy slang, which we can see through several early examples that are all connected to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.  It has always meant to refine one’s knowledge and may come from the idea that you use a bone to polish leather as you might polish your mind through study.  The first time we see the phrase used in its current incarnation is 1887, in Elizabeth Custer’s Tenting where she refers to an 1860s phrase:  I have known the General to “bone up,” as his West Point phrase expressed, on the smallest details of some question at issue.  https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/bone-up-on-something   

“Unhurried” would probably be the best word for the way Frédéric Eliot cooks leg of lamb in the kitchens he oversees.  At Scales—restaurateur Dana Street’s classic seafood spot in Portland, Maine—the French-born chef stuffs local lamb with herbs, garlic confit and spices, then roasts it, bone-in, for nearly an hour.  At sister restaurant Fore Street, he either slowly braises or spit-roasts leg of lamb over live coals.  When cooking off the clock, however, Mr. Eliot goes about things quite differently.  In his second Slow Food Fast recipe, he calls for seasoning butterflied leg of lamb with salt and pepper and simply searing it in a heavy pan.  (You can also quickly grill it.)  In just a few minutes, the exterior crisps and caramelizes, while the interior cooks to medium.  “You do it like a steak,” Mr. Eliot said.  “You want this a nice pink.”  While the meat rests, stir up a sauté of summer vegetables with red wine and anchovies—a luxurious, sweet-savory bed for the sliced lamb.  With a really nice piece of lamb, you don’t need a whole lot of fanfare.  Kitty Greenwald  The Wall Street Journal  August 25, 2021  

A zine (short for magazine or fanzine) is a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images, usually reproduced via a copy machine.  Zines are the product of either a single person or of a very small group, and are popularly photocopied into physical prints for circulation.  A fanzine (blend of fan and magazine) is a non-professional and non-official publication produced by enthusiasts of a particular cultural phenomenon (such as a literary or musical genre) for the pleasure of others who share their interest.  The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and popularized within science fiction fandom, entering the Oxford English Dictionary in 1949.  Libraries and institutions with notable zine collections include:  Barnard College Library, The University of Iowa Special Collections, The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, The Tate Museum, The British Library, and Harvard University's Schlesinger Library.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine 

Ham hocks are cankles.  A ham hock is pork that’s cut from the bottom part of a pig’s leg where the calf connects to the ankle.  It’s not a super common cut but it’s used a lot in Southern USA and it gives a deep flavour to many dishes.  The actual ham hock isn’t usually the highlight of the dish as it’s not particularly meaty.  Instead, it’s used to give a smoky, salty flavour to meals like stews.  Preheat your oven to 350 ° F.  In an oven safe lidded skillet or braising pan, fry the ham hocks in the oil until brown and crispy on the outside.  Add in the vegetable broth.  (You can use chicken as well if wanted.)  Remove from the stove, cover with a lid and place in the oven.  Cook in the oven for 2-3 hours, until the ham hock meat is tender and falls apart when pulled at with a fork.  Karlynn Johnston  https://www.thekitchenmagpie.com/braised-ham-hocks/   

The forms loath, loathe, and loathed are not interchangeable.  The word loath is an adjective.  It’s from Old English lað which meant “hostile, repulsive.”  It’s related to German Leid (sorrow) and French laid (ugly).  Its most frequent modern usage is in the expression “to be loath to do something,” in which the meaning is not much stronger than “reluctant.”  Ex.  I am loath to admit my mistake. In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath tells the story of the “loathly lady.”  A young man must choose between an ugly (loathly) bride who will be faithful, and a beautiful one who will not be.  The word loathe is a verb.  It’s from Old English laðian which had the meaning “to hate, to be disgusted with.”  The modern meaning is about the same: “to feel strong aversion for; have extreme disgust at.”  The form loathed is the participle form.  Ex.  The child loathed the cruel teacher.  A variant spelling of the adjective loath is loth.  The th in the adjective has the unvoiced sound heard in thin.  The verb loathe (despite the tutor’s note at Answers.com) has a different pronunciation.  The th in loathe has the voiced sound heard in this.  The silent final e is what signals the difference in pronunciation.  The Kingdom of Loathers is an online game.  The Loathers is a music group.  

Browse more than 80 recipes with lima beans (also known as butter beans) complete with ratings, reviews and cooking tips at https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/1840/fruits-and-vegetables/beans-and-peas/lima-beans/

Warren William (born Warren William Krech 1894–1948) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s; he was later nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code".  The studios capitalized on William's popularity by placing him in multiple "series" films, particularly as detectives and crime solvers.  William was the first to portray Erle Stanley Gardner's fictional defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen, starring in four Perry Mason mysteries.  He played Raffles-like reformed jewel thief The Lone Wolf in nine films, beginning with The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939), and appeared as Detective Philo Vance in two of the series films, The Dragon Murder Case (1934) and the comedic The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939).  He also starred as Sam Spade (renamed Ted Shane) in Satan Met a Lady (1936), the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon.  Other roles included Mae West's manager in Go West, Young Man (1936); a jealous district attorney in another James Whale film, Wives Under Suspicion (1938); copper magnate Jesse Lewisohn in 1940's Lillian Russell; the evil Jefferson Carteret in Arizona (also 1940); and the sympathetic Dr. Lloyd in The Wolf Man (1941).  In 1945, he played Brett Curtis in cult director Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 modern-day version of Hamlet, called Strange Illusion.  In what would be his last film, he played Laroche-Mathieu in The Private Affairs of Bel Ami in 1947.  On radio, William starred in the transcribed series Strange Wills, which featured "stories behind strange wills that run the gamut of human emotion."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_William 

That is what learning is.  You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate (22 Oct 1919-2013)  

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