Caldo Verde, meaning “green broth” in Portuguese, is a traditional soup in Portugal made with potatoes, kale or collard greens, smoked sausage and olive oil. This delicious Caldo Verde recipe is simple to prepare and made in just one pot.  https://pinchandswirl.com/caldo-verde/

Prepare cake pans using baking spray--or rub butter, a teaspoon of flour and tap the pan to make it stick. 

Ozark Pudding  Takes 50 minutes  Serves 8  Find recipe at https://www.food.com/recipe/ozark-pudding-from-bon-appetite-484441   

"1984" is an American television commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer.  It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas, and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott.  The ad was an allusion to George Orwell's noted 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother". English athlete Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother.  In the US, it first aired in 10 local outlets, including Twin Falls, Idaho, where Chiat/Day ran the ad on December 31, 1983, at the last possible break before midnight on KMVT, so that the advertisement qualified for the 1984 Clio Awards.  Its second televised airing, and only US national airing, was on January 22, 1984, during a break in the third quarter of the telecast of Super Bowl XVIII by CBS.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)    

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955)

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court justice (15 Mar 1933-2020)

 

Literary Hub  March 17 2024

Henry Fielding (mock) tries UK Poet Laureate Colley Cibber in the press for the crime of murdering the English language (March 17, 1740) • Honoré de Balzac shoots himself in the foot with a harebrained publicity scheme (March 19, 1842) •  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the first book in the United States to be banned on a national scale, is published, selling 3,000 copies on its first day in print (March 20, 1852) •  Halldor Laxness’s Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) sells out of all copies on its release day, for the first time in Icelandic history (March 21, 1948) •  The expression “O.K.” appears in print for the first time, in the Boston Morning Post (March 23, 1839)   

A childhood prodigy who studied under Vladimir Horowitz, Byron Janis emerged in the late 1940s as one of the most celebrated virtuosos of a new generation of talented American pianists.  In 1960, he was selected as the first musician to tour the then-Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange program organized by the U.S. State Department.  His recitals of Chopin and Mozart awed Russian audiences and were described by the New York Times as helping to break “the musical iron curtain.”  Seven years later, while visiting a friend in France, Janis discovered a pair of long-lost Chopin scores in a trunk of old clothing.  He performed the waltzes frequently over the ensuing years, eventually releasing a widely hailed compilation featuring those performances.  Janis remained active in his later years, composing scores for television shows and musicals, while putting out a series of unreleased live performances.  Janis died March 14, 2024.  JAKE OFFENHARTZ  https://apnews.com/article/byron-janis-dies-classical-pianist-54ff513441a51ca970dbb80118873d29   

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