LIQUORICE PUDDING by Nigella  serves 2  https://www.nigella.com/recipes/liquorice-pudding 

Both extinguish and distinguish, which, apart from some unimportant derivatives like 'interdistinguish', are the only English words ending in '-tinguish' are derived from the Latin verb stinguĕre, 'to quench', 'to extinguish', of which the past participle form is stinctus.  OED says in its etymology for the obsolete form distingue that stinguĕre was "originally 'to prick or stick', but found only in sense 'to extinguish'".  http://hull-awe.org.uk/index.php/Distinguish_-_extinguish 

Napoleon is said to have gone through more than 100ml of his lime and rosemary cologne in baths and dabs every day.  Copies of this invigorating scent are still a bestselling formula and the political writings of a Renaissance diplomat, the Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, help explain why.  In his 1532 treatise The Prince, he famously argued that one’s benevolent ends may justify the use of any necessarily fraudulent or violent means, and that leaders ultimately do better to be feared than loved.  Take the book by best-selling Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny, for example.  All the Devils are Here is the sixteenth installment in a series she began publishing in 2006, wherein Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Quebec Provincial Police always succeeds in finding out who the murderer is and why they did it.  Penny pours on the perfume in a variety of meaningful ways, situating Gamache in Paris for the birth of his grandchild when his godfather is nearly killed by a suspicious hit and run.  Sixty pages in, readers are introduced to a highly intelligent engineer who reeks of Dior’s Sauvage.  Excerpted from Perfume by Megan Volpert, available via Bloomsbury.  https://lithub.com/how-perfume-becomes-an-evocative-clue-for-mystery-writers/ 

persiflage noun : frivolous bantering talk : light raillery  Synonyms for persiflage:  backchat, badinage,  banter, chaff, give-and-take, jesting, joshing, raillery, repartee  English speakers picked up persiflage from French in the 18th century.  Its ancestor is the French verb persifler, which means "to banter" and was formed from the prefix per-, meaning "thoroughly," plus siffler, meaning "to whistle, hiss, or boo."  Siffler in turn derived from the Latin verb sibilare, meaning "to whistle or hiss." By the way, sibilare is also the source of sibilant, a word linguists use to describe sounds like those made by "s" and "sh" in sash. That Latin root also underlies the verb sibilate, meaning "to hiss" or "to pronounce with or utter an initial sibilant."  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/persiflage 

Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies  https://www.livewellbakeoften.com/peanut-butter-no-bake-cookies/ 

Peanut Butter-Chocolate No-Bake Cookies  https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/peanut-butter-chocolate-no-bake-cookies-recipe-2015085 

Air Fryer Granola http://thedeliciousplate.com/air-fryer-granola/ 

BEST BOOKS UNDER 200 PAGES and BEST BOOKS UNDER 100 PAGES by Rachel Brittain  https://bookriot.com/best-books-under-200-pages/

 “Who’s On First?” is arguably (pun intended) the most famous comedy routine of all time.  “Time” magazine proclaimed it the “Best Comedy Sketch of the 20th Century” in 1999.  The Greater Los Angeles Press Club, with great foresight, declared the same almost 50 years earlier.  It was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 1956, where it has played in a continuous loop since 1967.  The skit is a cultural touchstone that has inspired homages and derivatives using the names of rock groups such as The Who and Yes, as well as foreign and domestic leaders like Premier Hu, James Watt, and Yassir Arafat.  Ask Google Assistant or Siri “Who’s on first?” and it will reply, “Yes, he is,” or “Correct, Who is on first.”  High school students translate it and perform it in French or Spanish, and it has even been performed in American Sign Language.  The routine has also transcended comedy as a metaphor for miscommunication and double-talk in business, politics, and everyday life.  It turns up without fail on the sports pages whenever a baseball club has trouble filling a position.  “Who’s On First?” is one of the lasting legacies of the comedy team of Bud Abbott (1897-1974) and Lou Costello (1906-1959).  (Another is their landmark horror comedy “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein” [1948], which was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2001.)  Bud, the straight man, and Lou, the comedian, teamed up in burlesque in 1936 and rose to rank among the top movie stars and highest-paid performers of the 1940s.   In recent years “Who’s On First?” has been referenced in dozens of television shows, adapted for a board game in the 1970s, and played a pivotal role in the 1988 film “Rain Man.”  But life finally imitated art in September 2007, when Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Chin-Lung Hu, a late-season call up from the minors, got his first major league hit.  Dodger announcer Vin Scully declared, “Shades of Abbott and Costello.  I can finally say, ‘Hu’s on first.’”  Read six-page essay by Ron Palumbo at https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/WhosOnFirst-Palumbo.pdf 

Rich Strike pulled a huge upset during the 2022 Kentucky Derby by winning against 80-1 odds.  The 3-year-old thoroughbred, along with Venezuelan jockey Sonny Leon, became the second biggest longshot to win in the 148-year history of the event.  There had not been a bigger upset in over 100 years.  Isabel Gonzalez  Find a full list of the 10 Kentucky Derby winners with the longest odds at  https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/kentucky-derby-2022-the-ten-biggest-underdogs-to-win-the-run-for-the-roses-as-a-long-shot/ 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel–it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings.  Between May 3 and November 10, 2022, Dracula Daily will post a newsletter each day that something happens to the characters, in the same timeline that it happens to them.  Sign up at https://www.openculture.com/2022/04/dracula-daily-get-the-classic-novel-dracula-delivered-to-your-email-inbox-in-small-chunks.html   Thank you Muse reader!  See also Christopher Lee Reads Five Horror Classics: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera & More at https://www.openculture.com/2016/03/christopher-lee-reads-five-horror-classics.html 

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2531  May 9, 2022