This may not look like much but it is good, and perfect for last evening’s Heritage Night–when we enjoy mostly eastern European dishes. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find any leeks in town so we used a couple of bunches of green onions.
“Thin Soup with Young Vegetables”
LEEK SOUP WITH HAM ROLLS
About 5 medium-sized leeks, washed, cut into thin strips 5 or 6 medium potatoes, peeled, quartered, cooked in water until tender, drained, cooking water reserved, potatoes mashed with 1 Tbsp butter and 3 Tbsp milk “until creamy” 1 Tbsp butter Salt Ham Rolls (Šunkový svítek)
Melt butter in a deep skillet, add leeks, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally so leeks do not burn. Add potato cooking liquid to leeks and cook until tender, 15 minutes or longer. Add mashed potatoes and cook together. Strain if desired and add salt to taste. When ready to serve, add Ham Rolls.
HAM ROLLS
“Šunkový Svítek”
½ C ham, chopped fine 3 Tbsp flour 2 egg whites, plus an additional 1 egg yolk Salt Chopped parsley Piece of fat for greasing pan
Preheat oven to 350. Beat egg whites until stiff, gently beat in 1 egg yolk, add flour, ham, and salt and parsley to taste, and mix well. Grease baking pan and flour, pour in dough, and bake until pink, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. Cut into cubes. Put cubes into soup for a few minutes, then serve soup.
The book was a book of the month book. Has some pretty good essays in it.
Posts on American Voices here: https://www.bigfoodetc.com/?s=american+voices
My favorite. Really. If you can spare a few minutes, read my summary of the essay. The premise is
“Olson’s essay is nothing more than an exchange of six letters between the fictional characters Ben Fintz, editor of the journal, American History Revisited, and Karen, a contributing author to the journal. The year is 2191.” It ends:
We are wrong. I am convinced that the people of the late 1900s had no desire to abandon the First Amendment. I expect they thought one little restriction would do no “harm.” I fear that, given another chance, they would look at our sanitized society and shout, “No!”
Surely we are safer than those vulnerable people of the 20th century, protected as we are from the temptations ofincorrect thinking. Surely we are happier, free from the anxiety of trying to sort out truths from a tangled mess of competing information. Surely the small price we paid was worth the certainty we gained.
But I cannot help but be haunted by the feeling that those people who gave us the seeds would tremble at theharvest. They would feel betrayed. I keep hearing their voices, raised in a welcome chorus of blessed second chance, shouting, “No!”
If free expression becomes both constricted and tentative, it may lose more than just its voice. It will face the prospect of losing what it needs most. An audience.
Barbara Rubenstein, National First Prize Winner, in American Voices: Prize-winning Essays on Freedom of Speech, Censorship and Advertising Bans (1987)
Civilization is a stream with banks, … . The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. –Will Durant
The other day I was thumbing through the crappy old book, Curriculum Books: The First Eighty Years (1980) by William Henry Schubert and I came across a reference to another crappy old book, Old Textbooks (1961) by J.A. Nietz. So I bought it. What a gem! It catalogs– based on the author’s private collection of over (at the time) 8000 texts published mainly in the United States until around the 1920s– just about everything you could want to know about old textbooks.
As is my habit, I did a spot of research to discover more about the book and its author. Holy cow! Nietz was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh (a student of Dewey at Chicago). When he retired in 1958, his donated textbooks founded the Nietz Old Textbook Collection at Pitt which now has over 16,000 volumes.
What a guy! He was the go-to scholar for all things concerning texts and curriculum in early American schools. His analysis of the texts’ content is meticulous, and affords a look at what we might call changing times in America. To whit:
From an analysis of 1370 readers published
before 1775, 6 percent of the content dealt with morals and conduct 1775 – 1825, 20% 1825 – 1875, 20% 1875 – 1915, 5% 1915 – 1926, 3.5%
Think about that. Some guy named John Nietz sitting on the bank of the Monongahela explaining the decadence of the Roaring Twenties.
[Senior devil Screwtape to junior devil Wormwood, whose ‘patient’ is a newly converted church goer:]
“Work hard, then, on the disappointment or anti-climax which is certainly coming to the patient during his first few weeks as a churchman. The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour. It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek. It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together. In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing. The Enemy takes this risk because He has a curious fantasy of making all these disgusting little human vermin into what He calls His ‘free’ lovers and servants—‘sons’ is the word He uses, with His inveterate love of degrading the whole spiritual world by unnatural liaisons with the two-legged animals. Desiring their freedom, He therefore refuses to carry them, by their mere affections and habits, to any of the goals which He sets before them: He leaves them to ‘do it on their own.’ And there lies our opportunity. But also, remember, there lies our danger. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt.”
So today, I saw two very odd birds. One perched on the fence, the other on the tree. They flew around. I quietly snuck back into house, got a camera…
There were multiple text messages. We decided it was a Green Heron.
And then, I was just minding my own business working away at my desk and some motion caught my attention. A freaking coyote in the back yard. No. It was not a dog. You can tell by the way it walks. TIGER!! I scooped Tiger up and put him inside.
And then again, the coyote. On the range. And all the while the dogs were silent.
Went out to take some trash out and two gold finches flew by. Way too yellow for this time of year.
Sat back down and who should show up in the back yard but the doe and her fawn. She’d given birth in the over grown (fenced in) pasture. Mr. Big Food reported the other day that she was trying to get the younin’ to jump the fence, but it wasn’t big enough yet. Today they made the break.
We’ll track the progress on this little project and check in from time to time. We did the tailgates (for about 120 people) for three years. Shown below is the A&S tailgate trailer which we had just taken custody of. Stay tuned.
In the Vast Space of ‘How you Make Sense of the World’
This is an interesting one. And you know this is not a political blog. But we do like history and we think there’s value in the observations of those who lived in the past.
Interesting also because this was another instance of Big Dogs Jawin’–the early years of developing Missy and Rocky’s characters. This one I have not edited for clarity (no he said/she saids). But I think it’s readable. Enjoy!
The gangster spirit survives and must be dealt with.
We should not create a paradise for gangsters.
I could not agree with the sentiment more, could you? We shouldn’t create a paradise for gangsters. Gangsters would disrupt our peace and we don’t want that, now do we?
Dulles, as you may recall was a Secretary of State. A diplomat back in the crappy olden days before iThingys and not-iThings. In other words, back in the days when a gangster could just light a match and poof! What evidence?
I don’t know enough about Dulles to have an opinion on the worth of his life, or the value of his service to his country. I don’t know what controversies may have surrounded him while he was climbing the political ladder, or as the issues of his time passed him by. I came across one small grain of information that tips the scales in Dulles’ favor regarding him as a man, but I don’t know the details and I never will. So I have no opinion about him.
What I do know is that every thoughtful person has an opportunity to observe, and if inclined, to memorialize those observations. If such a thoughtful individual was in a position of “authority”– as a Secretary of State would be– his or her observations, though tinted by world- and self-views, could nevertheless be informative, especially in retrospect.
(OMG! I just remembered we went to a Condi Rice lecture at State a couple of years ago!)
And so here we have Dulles observing that when order breaks down– earlier paragraphs indicate that what he means by “authority” is orderly or common national courtesy behavior based on common sentiment– the gangsters move in.
Hel-l-l-lo!!! What was your first clue?
“Hello! Hallo! A hoy hoy!”
“rfffuuuuffffff?…”
“Oh my gosh, Missy! I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to wake you!”
“Well it’s too late now! Now I am wide awake. Why in Heaven’s name would you shout out ‘Hello’ in the middle of the night?”
“rrrrrrrrrrffffuuuuffuuffuuufff.”
“I dunno. And again, I am sorry. I was just working through some thoughts in my head and I had a moment.”
“Well, now that I’m awake, I– as your faithful companion– am here to listen if you need me.”
“rrruuufff.”
“Gosh! Thanks, Missy! You are such a good listener.”
“rrrrruuuuffffff!!!”
“Go back to sleep, Dear Friend. Marica and I are having a conversation.”
“R>U>F>F”
“Rocky, You look confused. Go back to bed, Boy.”
“So, anyway, Missy. Here’s what I was thinking about. I’m thinking that history doesn’t just repea… . Missy? Missy?”
Gosh, would you look at her! Her official birthday is at the end of August, so she’s not quite one year old here.
Who would have thought on August 13, 2012 that Missy would write an epic novel titled, Vitiosus Canes, Virtutum Actus (Vicious Dogs, Virtuous Acts) that was destined to become a best seller?
[Link above goes to a free short story (read or download the pdf) about Missy coming to write her Epic Novel. It’s fun, family friendly, and a little bit educational!]
Even more amazing–we knew Missy was very talented from the get-go–who would have thought that she would start a school for
all the animals on our farm who wanted to learn and teach from those great books of knowledge passed down to us through….
Check out what’s playing tonight and tomorrow. Do you imagine that the antenna once broadcast audio of the movie that was playing? Or something else?
Downtown Aberdeen looked to be pretty prosperous. It even has a fabric store! On the other hand, I think Penny Lane’s has seen better days. The menu was limited, and the biscuits & sausage gravy wasn’t all that good– but we’re pretty particular about our biscuits & gravy. In all my years, I have never had biscuits & sausage gravy that just had bulk sausage chunked up on top of the gravy. Maybe it’s a local custom.
I came across this while skimming through one of my newest– and newer (1978)– crappy old books, Webster’s Encyclopedia of Dictionaries: 12 Complete Dictionaries in One.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man– the struggle between a proud mind and an empty pocket– the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
— Mrs. Jameson
A few tangential thoughts before we turn to the mysterious Mrs. Jameson.
An Encyclopedia of Dictionaries! For two bits! That go to charity! Life is great, isn’t it?
The quote comes from the “Familiar Quotations” section. Included also in the Encyclopedia of Dictionaries are Crossword, Bible, Scientific, Music, Rhyming, Legal and Medical Dictionaries, plus some other stuff. For $0.50 that goes to charity! I ask again, is this a Great Country or What?
I like Mrs. Jameson’s sentiment, don’t you? I heard a story– a first-hand story told to Mr. Big Food and I by one who was present– about a “well-to-do” couple, in terms of income, up to their necks in debt. They were advised to analyze past expenses and track current. When then asked why ‘clothing’ expenses represented such a large proportion of total expenditures, the woman replied that she needed a new wardrobe every season. I’m not making this up. She donated last season’s to “the poor” as a charitable contribution. She was advised to consider dry-cleaning. Have courage!
Mrs. Jameson. Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860). I had never heard of this woman. (The Wikipedia entry is lifted straight from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition which is largely unchanged in my 14th edition (1955) from which all paraphrases and quotes come. from.).
What a woman. What a prolific writer. I wonder why no one’s heard of this woman.
She became engaged to Robert Jameson, broke off the engagement, traveled, wrote a best-seller, and later married Jameson. “The marriage proved unhappy… . … The couple separated without regret.” Translation: they were still married, they just went their own separate ways.
And then she wrote, Characteristics of Women (1832), an “analyses of characteristics and differences of women of Shakespeare’s heroines.”
And then, after writing some more, she joined her husband in Toronto in 1836. That didn’t go well. But before she returned to England, she hung out with the natives and wrote Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838).
Later, back in England and at home on The Continent, she wrote about art galleries, how the Madonna was depicted through history. And so on.
Still later, “she took a keen interest in in questions affecting the education, occupations, and maintenance of her own sex. Of these subjects, she wrote Sisters of Charity (1855) and The Communion of Labour (1856).” ~~
Mrs. Jameson strikes me a a modern day heroine. She bounced around the world as she knew it. And wrote about it. Good for her.
I’d love to find a copy of Characteristics of Women. Why haven’t we heard of this woman?
Lyric by George Graff, Jr. Music by Jack Glogau. Published by Leo. Feist, Inc., New York. Copyright MCMXVI. (That’s 1916, for folks who don’t speak Roman.)
Believe it or not, this image– on a piece of sheet music I picked up in the Friends of the Starkville Library 50⊄ room a couple of months ago– has a presence on the World Wide Web. It’s easy to find, as is information about the lyricist, George Graff, Jr. He has a Wikipedia page!! If you’ve ever hummed, “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” you’ve hummed one of George’s songs.
I haven’t been able to find too much information about the song itself. (FYI: The lyrics are not those to the Miley Cyrus song.)
I take that back!
In 1916, Woodrow Wilson campaigned for his second term on the basis of having maintaining a position of non-involvement in the war. The song “Stonewall Wilson,” by Robert Mortimer, portrays the President as a strong, picturing him in uniform and leading soldiers on the sheet music cover, while the point of the song is that he kept the country at peace. This mixed political message shows a president that can lead in war, but only if absolutely necessary.
There were voices of those who opposed the peace movement and saw frightening consequences if the United States did not enter the war. For example, a recording made in 1916 by Frederick Wheeler, “Wake Up America,” demonstrated that many realized that the United States would have to send troops to Europe.
When the United States declared war with Germany in 1917, partly in response to German attacks on United States shipping, it was realized that the popular attitudes about the war needed to be turned around. Songs were one means of changing people’s minds.
that you may find some stuff that happened in the past offensive.
No kidding. History is literally littered with offensive stuff.
(What’s with the passive voice in that quote? “[I]t was realized that the popular attitudes about the war needed to be turned around.” By definition, passivity removes action– agency. Who realized that attitudes would have to be “turned around?”)
You know, if I were a Libertarian with a big L and liked history and I knew how to write, I would write a little American history book for home-schooled kids of about ages 7-15 in which everything that anyone from the 1600s until the present day ever did that lined up with my big L-Libertarian self-reliant admiring self would be presented in the active voice. And every single damned thing that freedom-hating welfare-state loving think-i’m-better-than-you person ever did would be written about in the passive voice.
But alas. Though I am a big L-Libertarian, and I only play a writer on this here blog.
Who remembers The Farm Circle? We met every other Friday afternoon July through early August, 2020. It was an attempt at “normal” life when people were up to here with the abnormal. We held it in the Apartment and conformed to all the dictates. It was a lot of fun. This was the last one, and I was glad of it.
We had some tinkering to do with the setup to get the television high enough for Mr. Big Food to read quotes from Nobel Prize speeches.
This may or may not have been the final Farm Circle. Who knows? But it was an excellent one! The Apartment Lecture Hall was filled to capacity (10). Andrew even virtually joined us! The talk and discussion went on for two hours before we adjourned to The Bunkhouse Bar for drinks and food, then talk and discussion on the patio. Quite lively.
Not visible, Nedah and Manny.
We shall see what the future of The Farm Circle is as “real” life moves forward. I wouldn’t be sad if there were no more meetings. But I haven’t put the furniture back where it belongs.
This is from back in the vault! If you have not experienced the difference between McCormick (or Kroger) paprika and true Hungarian Paprika, you have not yet lived.
Recipe: Fazolové Lusky na Paprice (Green Beans Paprika)
Bring water and 1 tsp salt to boil in a stock pot, drop in beans by handfuls, return to a boil, reduce heat to medium, cook beans just until tender (do not overcook), and drain beans immediately. Melt butter in a medium-sized saucepan, add onions, cook until translucent, remove from heat, and stir in paprika until onions are coated. Beat flour into sour cream, stir mixture into saucepan with onions, and add remaining ½ tsp salt. Simmer 4-5 minutes or until sauce is smooth, gently stir in beans, and simmer about 5 minutes longer or until heated through.
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