Calabacitas (which translates to “little squash” in English) is a Mexican dish made from sauteed zucchini or squash, corn, tomatoes and peppers.  It’s often served as a side dish, but is substantial enough to be served as a main vegetarian meal alongside some homemade flour tortillas.  There are many variations of this dish throughout Mexico and the southwestern United States.   Some versions don’t include tomatoes, some are plain and feature only the sauteed vegetables, and some include a flavorful cooking liquid that doubles as a sauce.  Recipe by Isabel serving six at https://www.isabeleats.com/calabacitas-recipe/    

Is it OK to say you’re the best person in the world when you know are not?  (paraphrase of a joke told on Saturday Night Live)   

Eleanore Cammack "Cammie" King (1934–2010) was an American actress and public relations officer.  She is best known for her portrayal of Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).  She also provided the voice for the doe Faline as a fawn in the animated Disney film, Bambi (1942).  Though King's acting career only spanned years, she appeared in two of the biggest films of the era, Gone with the Wind and Bambi.  She landed the part of Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With the Wind at the age of four, after casting directors had tested 250 applicants for the role, including her seven-year-old sister Diane.  After Diane was deemed too old for the part, she told the staff, "My sister looks like me and is only four and she can read lines".  Cammie did remember her lines, but she was unable to keep her eyelids from moving during Bonnie's death scene and was fitted with a death mask.  An adult male small person served as a body double for Bonnie's fall from the horse.   Reflecting on her film career, she once joked, "I peaked at 5".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cammie_King   

The University of Minnesota Libraries is the library system of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, operating at 12 facilities in and around Minneapolis–Saint Paul.  It has over 8 million volumes and 119,000 serial titles that are collected, maintained and made accessible.  The system is the 17th largest academic library in North America and the 20th largest library in the United States.  While the system's primary mission is to serve faculty, staff and students, because the university is a public institution of higher education its libraries are also open to the public.  The Libraries hold a variety of notable, specialized and unusual collections.  Examples include the world's largest assembly of materials on Sherlock Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; the Kerlan Collection of over 100,000 children's books;  the Hess Collection, one of North America's largest collections of dime novels, story papers and pulp fiction; the James Ford Bell Library of rare maps, books and manuscripts, and the seventh largest law library in the United States, including over 1 million volumes and personal papers such as those of Clarence Darrow.  The system is a Federal Depository Library, a State of Minnesota Depository Library and United Nations Depository Library.  Among research institutions, it maintains the second-largest collection of government documents in North America.  The University of Minnesota was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service in 2017.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_Libraries

Lager is a type of beer originated in Bavaria, which has been brewed and conditioned at low temperature.  Lagers can be pale, amber, or dark.  Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially available style of beer. The term "lager" comes from the German word for "storage", as the beer was stored before drinking, traditionally in the same cool caves in which it was fermented.  As well as maturation in cold storage, most lagers are distinguished by the use of Saccharomyces pastorianus, a "bottom-fermenting" yeast that ferments at relatively cold temperatures.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2784  February 16, 2024