The common names of fish can be culturally different depending on the region that you live.  Walleye are often called pickerel, especially in English speaking parts of Canada, while in the United States of America, they call the same species (Sander vitreus) a walleye.  The same thing happens with another fish, with some people calling a Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) a Steelhead.  Neither are right or wrong; they are a cultural preference.  Walleye (Sander vitreus) are the largest members of the perch family.  They are a cool freshwater fish, native to most of Canada.  The walleye is named for its pearlescent eye that helps them see and feed at night or in murky water.  Melissa Dakers  https://watersheds.ca/walleye-or-pickerel-the-great-debate/ 

GROWING SWEET PEAS--HOW TO PLANT, GROW, AND CARE FOR SWEET PEA FLOWERS by Catherine Boeckmann   Cultivated sweet peas go back at least 300 years.  In their native Sicily, these ornamental peas have weak stems and an intense orange-jasmine-honey scent.  Modern hybrids are stronger-stalked and have larger blooms.  Growing sweet peas is akin to making a pie crust.  Some people have the knack, others don’t.  Sweet peas are quite hardy, growing from large, easy-to-handle, pea-like seeds.  Still, they’re a bit tricky because they are slow to germinate.  It’s worth experimenting with different seeds each year.  https://www.almanac.com/plant/sweet-peas 

Kaiserschmarrn or Kaiserschmarren (Emperor's Mess) is a lightly sweetened pancake that takes its name from the Austrian emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I, who was very fond of this kind of fluffy shredded pancake.  It's served as dessert or as a light lunch.  Kaiserschmarrn is a popular meal or dessert in Austria, Bavaria, and many parts of the former Austro-Hungarian empire, e.g. Hungary, Slovenia, and northern Croatia, which usually use the name as a loan word or translations of it.  The name Kaiserschmarren is a compound of the words Kaiser (emperor) and Schmarren (a scrambled or shredded dish).  Schmarren is also a colloquialism used in Austrian and Bavarian to mean trifle, mishmash, mess, rubbish, or nonsense.  Kaiserschmarren is a light, caramelized pancake made from a sweet batter using flour, eggs, sugar, salt, and milk, baked in butter.  Kaiserschmarren can be prepared in different ways.  When making Kaiserschmarren the egg whites are usually separated from the yolk and beaten until stiff; then the flour and the yolks are mixed with sugar, and the other ingredients are added, including:  nuts, cherries, plums, apple jam, or small pieces of apple, or caramelized raisins and slivered almonds.  The last mentioned ingredients (nuts, cherries, plums, apple jam, or small pieces of apple, or caramelized raisins and chopped almonds) aren't in the original recipe and just additions made by some cooks based on their personal preferences.  In the original recipe there are only raisins (which, before cooking, are soaked in rum).  The pancake is split with two forks into pieces while frying and usually sprinkled with powdered sugar, then served hot with apple or plum sauce or various fruit compotes, including plum, lingonberry, strawberry, or apple.  Kaiserschmarren is eaten like a dessert, or it can also be eaten for lunch at tourist places like mountainside restaurants and taverns in the Austrian Alps, as a quite filling meal.  Traditionally, Kaiserschmarren is accompanied with Zwetschgenröster, a fruit compote made out of plums.  Read more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserschmarrn  See also Kaiserschmarrn by Julia Foerster at https://platedcravings.com/kaiserschmarrn-recipe/ 

Rafael Guastavino y Moreno (1842-1908), architect and master builder, was born in Valencia, Spain and died at his residence in Black Mountain, North Carolina.  He was known for improving an ancient form of masonry construction and introducing it to the United States, where it was used by leading architects in many significant buildings, particularly in the Northeast.  The construction firm he started in 1889, the Guastavino Fire Proof Construction Company, continued in business until 1962, installing its specialized type of work in perhaps a thousand buildings in the United States.  The company also built in Canada, Cuba, India and Great Britain.  In North Carolina, Rafael Guastavino was involved in two major building projects.  The Biltmore Estate (see Richard Morris Hunt) was the project that brought him to North Carolina.  There he employed his special tile and construction methods in the swimming pool, ceilings in several spaces, and the gatehouse.  His chief monument in North Carolina is St. Lawrence Catholic Church (now Basilica of St. Lawrence).  His son, Rafael Guastavino, Jr., carried forward his tradition.  When Guastavino immigrated to the United States in 1881 this way of building was unknown here.  He settled in New York City and had some success in winning design competitions, but he found more work installing his vaulting for floors in projects he was not asked to design.  Even though he had designed large structures in Spain since the mid-1860s, working as a contractor rather than an architect would be his route to success in the United States.  At the same time, he strove to become known to the larger building community by publishing a series of drawings of interiors in Spanish and Moorish styles and by securing patents on his basic tile structures.  Within several years he was being engaged by the nation’s leading architectural firms, and his work was being installed in the homes of Vanderbilts and Morgans, public buildings such as the new Boston Public Library and Carnegie Hall, and utility buildings such as power stations for the Edison Electrical Illuminated Company.  Rafael Guastavino came to North Carolina to work on the Biltmore House in the early 1890s.  Liking the area, he began to buy land south of Black Mountain, amassing about a thousand acres.  He built a large house there and created an estate he named Rhododendron.  He planted grape vines and apple trees, created ponds, and built workshops and kilns where he experimented with making the tiles he needed for his construction. Guastavino also planned an iron truss bridge over the Swannanoa River at Black Mountain, but it was evidently never constructed.  As a Catholic himself, he became involved in efforts to build a new Catholic church in nearby Asheville and was a major benefactor.  The result was St. Lawrence Catholic Church (now a Basilica), perhaps the building that best displays Guastavino’s unique way of building with tile.  It is also the last building where Guastavino was involved as an architect, although he shared credit with Richard Sharp Smith, the English-trained architect of record, who had also come to Asheville to work on the Biltmore House.  Guastavino and St. Lawrence Church attracted frequent coverage in Asheville newspapers.  The Asheville Citizen-Times of October 16, 1909, carried a detailed retrospective of its construction over nearly five years:  “This mighty vault was built bit by bit over nothing, above the church floor.  When Mr. Guastavino began preparations of work up there with a handful of men, builders called him foolhardy, said it was an impossible feat, that there was no precedent for it.  “Mr. Guastavino’s plan was to build the entire dome of thin, flat terra cotta tile, 6 x 12 inches, and an inch thick—much in size and shape like the bricks of the ancient Romans still to be seen in the walls of the little church near Canterbury, England.  In Guastavino’s special method of building, widely called Guastavino Construction in the United States, skilled artisans used layers of flat clay tiles embedded in mortar to build horizontal parts of buildings in the form of vaults or domes, to carry floors, roofs, ceilings and staircases. These tile structures were strong, lightweight, fireproof, and economical.  The economy of the method owed to the reduced need for steel or iron and formwork. Guastavino had experimented with this construction method in Barcelona, the major city of Catalonia, the leading industrial region of Spain.  There, while a young man, he won a competition to design a large mill, and he soon was busy building other mills, factories and large homes for the industrialists of the region.  https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000279 

THOUGHT FOR SEPTEMBER 2  There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. - Paul Bourget, novelist (2 Sep 1852-1935) 

It's that time of year when the air gets a little cooler, pumpkin decor pops up across stores, and the Corn Moon fills the sky.  The Corn Moon gets its name from the Native Americans, according to the Farmers Almanac.  This moon was an indicator that it was time to harvest the corn.  This moon can get confusing because it can also be called the Harvest Moon, or the moon that occurs closet to the autumnal equinox.  Depending on the year and when the phase of the moon falls, it can be both.  Since the Harvest Moon and Corn Moon are different in 2020, the Harvest Moon will be the next full moon set to appear on October 1.  This year you will be able to see the full beauty of the Corn Moon starting September 2 around 1:22 a.m. ET.  CNN Meteorologists Judson Jones said his favorite time to watch the full moon is as it is rising over the eastern horizon.  Lauren M. Johnson  https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/weather/full-moon-september-2020-scn-trnd/index.html 

From Wild Rice To White Chocolate, You Have Reasons To Celebrate National Food Holidys in September  Find 14 national food months, 7 national food weeks, and daily celebrations at https://www.thenibble.com/fun/more/facts/holidays-september.asp  Examples are:  Butterscotch Pudding Day on September 19 and Pancake Day on September 26.  

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