One-pot dish:  Transfer cooked stew from stovetop to heated oven.  Add biscuits and bake until golden brown. 

José Rey Toledo (1915-1994) was from Jemez Pueblo.  He attended the Albuquerque Indian School in the 1930s and earned a Masters of Arts at University of New Mexico.  He subsequently served as head of the art department at the Santa Fe Indian School.  Although he practiced as an artist for much of his life, he also earned a degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley and worked as an administrator of Indian health programs for departments of health in various states.  He is known as a graphic historian because of his detailed, loving portrayals of Native American social and religious ceremonies, some of which are no longer performed, and are preserved only in his paintings.  Toledo followed traditional Pueblo subject matter in many of his paintings—single or group dance figures and village scenes.  https://www.jigidi.com/jigsaw-puzzle/kqzwcolu/ram-dancer-and-deer-dancer-c-1930-jose-rey-toledo-jemez-pueblo/ 

In the traditional caviar hierarchy, the Caspian Sea sturgeon species produce the best caviars in the world.  Of these, the top 3 are Beluga, Osetra and Sevruga.  Osetra caviar is shadowed only by Beluga, with Sevruga in third place.  Did you know over 80% of caviar consumed in the United States is imported from Chinese farms?  Marshallberg Farm offers small batch, freshly harvested caviar that has never switched hands or been in transit; higher grades of caviar that are packed direct to final tin on harvest day; never repacked or exposed to air; sturgeon farming methods that are ranked a “Best Choice” for sustainability by Seafood Watch; and no borax, hormones, antibiotics or other illegal food additives.  With facilities in eastern and western North Carolina, Marshallberg Farm is the only producer of Russian sturgeon and Osetra caviar in the U.S.A.  https://thecaviarfarm.com/russian-sturgeon-aquaculture/  Thank you, Muse reader! 

Amor Towles on Bringing a Historical Setting to Life   "History is the painted backdrop."  There’s a multi-year design phase when an idea has grabbed my attention.  I’m thinking about it over a period of years, filling notebooks where I’m imagining the story in great detail, and I’m doing that for multiple stories at any given time.  When I set out to do a new book, very often I’m looking at the different notebooks in my office and saying, Which of these am I going to do?  It’s a multi-year process.  It takes a couple of years for me just to get through the design.  Then I transfer all that imaginary work into a detailed outline that describes the book chapter by chapter, scene by scene, all the characters and their backgrounds, settings, all the events right through to the final page.  That’s a pretty extensive outline, somewhere between 25 and 40 pages.  And then, once that’s ready, then I would start to write Chapter One.  https://lithub.com/amor-towles-on-bringing-a-historical-setting-to-life/ 

Death and taxes is a common reference to the famous quotation:   Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.  — Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, 1789   However, Franklin's letter is not the origin of the phrase, which appeared earlier in Daniel Defoe's The Political History of the Devil.  Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believ’d.  — Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726.  And in The Cobbler of Preston by Christopher Bullock (1716)  ’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_(idiom) 

The three-digit number on the side of an egg carton references which day of the year that a particular egg was packed—so you’d see a number between 001 (representing January 1) and 365 (representing December 31) in this instance.  Typically, eggs are considered fresh about four weeks after this date.  https://www.agdaily.com/livestock/poultry/what-do-numbers-and-labels-on-egg-cartons-mean/ 

Money makes the world go ‘round and debt makes it stop in its tracks.  *  Refusal equaled deception.   *  One thing that always  remained the same was that people laughed when a president made a joke.  *  Chinese food was great (very important in accepting people from another part f the world)  2030:  The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks 

2030:  The Real Story of What Happens to America is the (2010) first novel written by American actor and comedian Albert Brooks.  Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein; July 22, 1947 is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.  He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's Broadcast News and was widely praised for his performance as a ruthless Jewish mobster in the 2011 neo-noir film Drive.  Brooks has also played in Taxi Driver (1976), Private Benjamin (1980), Unfaithfully Yours (1984), and My First Mister (2001).  He has written, directed, and starred in several comedy films, such as Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991).  He is also the author of 2030:  The Real Story of What Happens to America (2011).  His voice acting credits include Marlin in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), Tiberius in The Secret Life of Pets (2016), and recurring guest voices for The Simpsons, including Russ Cargill in The Simpsons Movie (2007) and Hank Scorpio in "You Only Move Twice".  He grew up among show business families in southern California, attending Beverly Hills High School with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Brooks 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2503  March 4, 2022