Figment is the mascot of the Imagination! Pavilion at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort.  He is a small purple dragon with a runaway imagination.  Figment was created by Tony Baxter, who came up with the name "Figment" after watching an episode of Magnum, P.I., in which a goat has eaten Higgins' (John Hillerman) flowers and Higgins says, "Don't tell me [the goat is] a figment of my imagination.  Figments don't eat rare tropical flowers".  Figment’s original character design was created by Grayson Shafer in 1976.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figment_(Disney)   

Frangelico (is a brand of noisette (flavored with hazelnuts) and herb-flavored liqueur coloured with caramel coloring, which is produced in Canale, Italy.  It is 20% alcohol by volume (ABV) or 40 proof.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frangelico#:~:text=Frangelico%20(Italian%3A%20%5Bfran%CB%88d%CA%92%C9%9Bliko%5D,(ABV)%20or%2040%20proof.

Named for its warm golden-tan color, brunost or “brown cheese” is made by boiling down goat’s milk whey, a byproduct of actual cheese production.  The result is a firm, silky-smooth foodstuff with a rich caramel flavor that is simultaneously sweet and tangy. https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/7-norwegian-cheeses-you-should-know   

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.  The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse   https://read.gov/aesop/004.html

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.  The Fox and the Grapes https://read.gov/aesop/005.html

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the writer of The Cuckoo’s Calling, a crime novel she published under the pen name Robert Galbraith.  England’s Sunday Times, responding to an anonymous tip that Rowling was the book’s real author, hired Duquesne University’s Patrick Juola to analyze the text of Cuckoo, using software that he had spent over a decade refining.  One of Juola’s tests examined sequences of adjacent words, while another zoomed in on sequences of characters; a third test tallied the most common words, while a fourth examined the author’s preference for long or short words.  Juola wound up with a linguistic fingerprint—hard data on the author’s stylistic quirks.  He then ran the same tests on four other books:  The Casual Vacancy, Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter novel, plus three stylistically similar crime novels by other female writers.  Juola concluded that Rowling was the most likely author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, since she was the only one whose writing style showed up as the closest or second-closest match in each of the tests.  After consulting an Oxford linguist and receiving a concurring opinion, the newspaper confronted Rowling, who confessed.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-computers-uncover-jk-rowlings-pseudonym-180949824/  

Yann Martel, CC (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories.  It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists.  Life of Pi was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.  Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.   His first language is French, but he writes in English.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Martel   

eat someone's lunch (third-person singular simple present eats someone's lunch, present participle eating someone's lunch, simple past ate someone's lunch, past participle eaten someone's lunch)  verb 

(idiomatic, chiefly US, slang) To best or defeat someone thoroughly; to make short work of. synonyms ▲quotations ▼

Synonyms: eat someone for breakfast, have someone for breakfast; see also Thesaurus:defeat  

June 7  is World Food Safety Day, which is recognized by the United Nations to raise awareness about and promote global food safety.   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2823  June 7, 2024