QUOTES from Lidia's Mastering the Art
of Italian Cuisine by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich A tavola non si invecchia. (At the table one is always young.) - Italian
proverb A pancia piena si consulta meglia. (You
think better with a full belly.) - Italian proverb La vita è
una combinazione di magia e pasta. (Life is a combination of magic and pasta.) -
Federico Fellini
There are approximately 20 island farmers who grow Jersey Royals, many of whom grow potatoes
and no other crops. The Jersey soil is
light and well drained and many farmers still use seaweed harvested from Jersey
beaches as a natural fertilizer (it is known locally as vraic). Jersey has some of the most formidable tidal
flows in the world, and the strong movement of the sea deposits large
quantities of vraic on the shore. The
practice of using vraic on the land dates back to the 12th century. The Jersey Royal season begins in November
with planting under glass. The main
outdoor crop is planted from January to April with harvesting from the end
of March through to the July. The
peak of the season is May, when up to 1,500 tonnes of Royals can
be exported daily. Besides being
unique to Jersey, the Jersey Royal enjoys EU protection of designation of
origin in much the same way that France was granted sole use of the word
'champagne'. http://www.jerseyroyals.co.uk/about-jersey-royals.aspx Find a selection of recipes at http://www.jerseyroyals.co.uk/recipes.aspx
The French word jamais, usually used as an adverb, means never or ever. Find jamais combined with other words such as
vu, plus or si along with meanings at http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/jamais
Easy chicken and rice soup http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/easy-chicken-and-rice-soup-recipe/
Have a question? Need assistance? Use online form to ask a librarian at the
Library of Congress for help now. https://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ From personal experience, I can tell you that
the librarians are very helpful. For law
questions, contact a law librarian at the Law Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-law.html
Possession
is nine-tenths of the law is an expression meaning that ownership is easier to
maintain if one has possession of something, or difficult to enforce if one
does not. The expression is also stated as "possession is nine points of the
law", which is credited as derived from the Scottish expression
"possession is eleven points in the law, and they say there are but
twelve." Although the principle is
an oversimplification, it can be restated as:
"In a property dispute (whether real or personal), in the absence
of clear and compelling testimony or documentation to the contrary, the person
in actual, custodial possession of the property is presumed to be the rightful
owner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_the_law
Or, is perception nine-tenths of the
law? Or, is perception nine-tenths of
reality?
PARAPHRASES
from The Girl from Venice, a novel by Martin Cruz Smith At sea, you'll never be lost at night if you
know your constellations. Stars can be
your guardian angels.
Martin Cruz Smith (born Martin William Smith),
American novelist, received his BA in Creative Writing from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1964. He worked as a
journalist from 1965 to 1969 before turning his hand to fiction. His first mystery (Gypsy in Amber – 1971) features NY gypsy art dealer Roman Grey and
was nominated for an Edgar Award. Nightwing was his breakthrough novel and was made into a
movie. Smith is best known for his series
of novels featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko. Gorky Park, published in 1981, was the first of these and was
called "thriller of the '80s" by Time Magazine. It became a bestseller and won the Gold
Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association. Renko has also appeared in Polar Star, Red Square, Havana Bay, Wolves Eat Dogs, Stalin's Ghost, and Three Stations. In the 1970s,
Smith wrote The Inquisitor Series under the pseudonym Simon Quinn and penned two Slocum adult action westerns as Jake Logan. He also wrote
the Nick Carter: Killmaster series under the alias Nick Carter with Mike
Avallone and
others. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8258.Martin_Cruz_Smith
Follow-up to story on the outer boroughs of New York City:
Street Hail Livery cabs, also called Boro Taxis, serve areas in the City
not commonly served by yellow taxi cabs. They are green and can also be dispatched by
local car service companies to pick you up.
Street Hail Livery cabs can pick up street hails in: Brooklyn, Queens (not including airports). The Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan above
East 96th Street and above West 110th Street.
Street Hail Livery cabs can drop you off anywhere in the City. http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/1037/boro-taxis
Thank you, Muse reader!
Patriots
wide receiver's proudest achievement isn't making the Super Bowl by Steve Hartman She
first met this voracious reader, wide receiver three years ago. Malcolm Mitchell was in college then, playing
for Georgia, when one day he ran into a woman at Barnes and Noble. She didn’t know he was a famous football
player and invited him to join her book club, which he did. And that’s how one of the top wide receivers
in the country began meeting monthly with his book club lady friends. He was the only man and the youngest by a
generation. “Somebody called me a nerd. It’s not a word that I’m used to hearing, “
Malcolm said. “I was proud of it . . . It’s
like a badge of honor to me, knowing where I came from.” Malcolm confessed that when he started
college he could only read at about a junior high level. And it bothered him. So he started putting as much effort into his
reading game as his football game. Every
free moment he had a book in his hand. Until
eventually, he was reading them by the dozens.
Malcolm says football will never be his proudest accomplishment. “That
came natural. That’s a gift. I had to
work to read,” he said. Which brings us
to the latest chapter in his life story: Now the reader is a writer, too.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1688
February 6, 2017 On this date in
1952, Elizabeth II became queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession,
she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. On this date in 1978, the Blizzard
of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with
sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour. Thought
for Today The tragedy in the lives
of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with
people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national
background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies,
unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives. - Florence
Luscomb, architect and suffragist (6 Feb 1887-1985) See also Florence Hope Luscomb: A Radical
Foremother, 1887-1985 at http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/florence-hope-luscomb/
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