Vigna angularis, also known as the adzuki (Japanese:  azuki bean, aduki bean, red bean, or red mung bean, is an annual vine widely cultivated throughout East Asia for its small (approximately 5 mm or ¹⁄₄ in long) bean.  The cultivars most familiar in East Asia have a uniform red color, but there are also white, black, gray, and variously mottled varieties.  In East Asian cuisine, the adzuki bean is commonly sweetened before eating.  In particular, it is often boiled with sugar, producing red bean paste, a very common ingredient in all of these cuisines. It also is common to add flavoring to the bean paste, such as chestnut.   Red bean paste is used in many Chinese dishes, such as tangyuan, zongzi, mooncakes, baozi, and red bean ice.  It also serves as a filling in Japanese sweets such as anpan, dorayaki, imagawayaki, manjū, monaka, anmitsu, taiyaki, and daifuku.   A more liquid version, using adzuki beans boiled with sugar and a pinch of salt, produces a sweet dish called hong dou tang.  Some East Asian cultures enjoy red bean paste as a filling or topping for various kinds of waffles, pastries, baked buns, or biscuits.  Adzuki beans are commonly eaten sprouted or boiled in a hot, tea-like drink.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adzuki_bean   

How to make Adzuki Bean Coconut Curry (vegan, gluten-free)  by Kristen Wood at https://moonandspoonandyum.com/adzuki-bean-curry/    

smallfolk pl (plural only)  noun  (fantasy, mythology) Small humanoid creatures, such as gnomes and halflings.  Synonyms:  little folk, little people, small people  Translations:  small humanoid creatures — see little person  Further reading:  little people (mythology) on Wikipedia.  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smallfolk#English    

Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl.  The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne.  The film stars Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, and Fredi Washington.  The film was originally released by Universal Pictures on November 26, 1934, and re-released in 1936.  A 1959 remake of the same title was directed by Douglas Sirk.  In 2005, Imitation of Life was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".  It was also named by Time in 2007 as one of "The 25 Most Important Films on Race".  It was nominated for Best Picture, Best Assistant Director, and Best Sound Recording at the 7th Academy Awards.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imitation_of_Life_(1934_film)    

Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist.  He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss.  His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.  Geisel adopted the name "Dr. Seuss" as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and as a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford.  He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator and cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life, and various other publications.  He also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, including for FLIT and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM.   He published his first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street in 1937.  During World War II, he took a brief hiatus from children's literature to illustrate political cartoons, and he worked in the animation and film department of the United States Army.  After the war, Geisel returned to writing children's books, writing acclaimed works such as If I Ran the Zoo (1950), Horton Hears a Who! (1955), The Cat in the Hat (1957), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960), The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961), The Lorax (1971), The Butter Battle Book (1984), and Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990).  He published over 60 books during his career, which have spawned numerous adaptations, including eleven television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical, and four television series.  He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Special for Halloween Is Grinch Night (1978) and Outstanding Animated Program for The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982).  In 1984, he won a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.  His birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative focused on reading created by the National Education Association.   

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