A HUGE hit! Served with Tomato sambal and toasted pita.
CURRIED CHICKEN AND GRAPE SALAD serves 6
3 cups diced cooked chicken 1 1/2 cup thinly sliced celery 1 cup green grapes 2 Tbsp. lemon juice 1 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. black pepper 1 1/2 tsp. curry powder (use the best sweet curry you can find) 6 Tbsp. mayonnaise 3 Tbsp. slivered toasted almonds
Combine chicken, celery, and grapes. In a separate bowl, mix together lemon juice, salt, pepper, curry powder and mayonnaise. Pour over chicken mixture; toss lightly. Serve on lettuce; garnish with almonds.
I spent a delightful 50+ minutes this afternoon chatting about plant physiology– and popular misconceptions about such– with Kat.
At issue is the idea that less than perfect leaves should be wacked off the plant so as to allow the plant to channel its good intensions to more desirable parts of the plant. What poppycock.
Kat is correct. This is poppycock.
There are all sorts of reasons to cleans up dying leaves. Channeling good intensions are not among them.
The chlorophyl– the pigment– in leaves captures the radiant energy of sunlight and ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? the process of photosynthesis converts it into stored energy. C6H12O2.
To say that Mississippi is a conservative state– by which I mean things do not change, or if they do, it’s at the flow rate of sorghum (misspelled at first; why doesn’t autocorrect recognize misspelled sorghum?) molasses– is a bit of an understatement. Recall that the state is dry by default. We live in a dry county. It is illegal to possess, produce, consume, or transport alcohol. You will see no Budweiser trucks on the highway in my little county. But I digress.
Yesterday, the state House of Representatives, in a do-over vote in a special legislative session, passed the lottery bill 58-54 with no debate. On Monday the House had voted 54-60 against. Governor Bryant twisted some arms and “Some people had a change of heart after getting calls from constituents.” Imagine that. Representatives doing what the people desire. Heh.
Mississippi already has riverboat gambling. What is “riverboat gambling?” you may ask. It is, according to the author of the entry on that infallible source, a “legal fiction.” Basically what you do is find yourself some water– e.g., the Mississippi River, a sound on the Gulf, heck, any old puddle will do– and dig yourself a moat leading up to something that vaguely resembles a boat, and then attach this vague boat to an enormous casino. Riverboat gambling proceeds go to education in Mississippi.
So we have riverboat gambling and you may wonder why folks wouldn’t vote for the lottery. For those representing areas with riverboat gambling the reason is obvious– competition. Those hard earned dollars that you take to Tunica or to Biloxi to donate to the state’s education fund, and which you spend in hotels and restaurants and so forth, you’ll now be able to waste right where you live!
Some voted against for reasons having to do with lottery proceeds allocation. The first $80M are allotted to infrastructure projects. Education gets what’s leftover. That’s not fair.
Here’s a newsflash: more $$ is not going to make Mississippi smarter. If that were the case, we should have gotten a lot smarter beginning twenty some odd years ago.
But those aren’t the main reason folks voted against.
That reason is “faith based.” That’s what the Speaker of the House said today on SuperTalk Radio, and it is also the reason people opposed gambling in the late ’80s and early ’90s. (It’s also the reason the county is dry.) If you are unfamiliar with Mississippi dialect, I’ll translate for you. Faith based means that the lottery disproportionately affects poor people. We have a lot of poor people here in Mississippi, and while they do go to the casinos, if we had the lottery, we’d just be making it easier for them to be disproportionately affected. And we should not do that.
It used to be Marica Cooks Monday but due to a deviation from Mr. Big Food’s normal teaching schedule, occasional Monday this semester will be Fancy. Mind you, that’s fancy food, not necessarily fancy dishes and such. That would be too much work– for me– for a fall semester until football and traveling seasons have finished.
Here on the Farm, we like naming things. We often have Heritage Night. Everyone loves Heritage Night– German and Eastern European food! And then there’s Fast Friday. I had my doubts when Mr. Big Food introduced Fast Friday, which usually involves a lot of Campbell’s soups. But I’ve warmed up to it. And let’s not forget Daughter C cooks Wednesday. Always something different, except when it’s her world famous rice & beans, or chicken tetrazzini. Yum.
I think naming this gives a sense of cohesion to our dining experiences. And anticipation, too. Oh look! There’s a Grillin’ Saturday coming up! Yay!
The menu for the last tailgate Mr. Big Food and I did.
For five years, Mr. Big Food and I, along with some of his colleagues, cooked for one A&S Tailgate each year. From 2016-2018 the two of us were in charge of the whole sheebang– cooking, setting up and taking down. I was also in charge of the A&S Tailgate trailer (more on this to come). By the end of 2018, the novelty had worn off and so in 2019 the dean took over the setting up and breaking down, and we were only directly responsible for feeding the crowd (which averaged 120/tailgate). Keep in mind that feeding the crowd entails grocery shopping, food preparation and cooking, and transporting it the 40 miles from the farm to campus.
I just finished scrolling through four pages of “tailgate” post listings. This will be our September theme.
I know there are some who aren’t college football fans, much less SEC fans. Why should you care?
Because the food and menus are outstanding!
Plus it will be fun to see how danged good we got at putting on tailgates!
“Hey, Marica. What are you up … I mean, to what are you… whatcha doin’?”
“ruff?”
“Well, Missy, I heard from two of my faithful readers that… .”
“TWO!?! You have TWO!?! readers, Marica! That’s so awesome!! Two people are reading your blog!! Oh! MY! Congratulations!!!”
“ruff.”
“Thanks, Missy. You know, you could get the dogs in the ‘hood to read my blog. You could post on your facebook page.”
“I know I could but I don’t like to mix facebook business with pleasure.”
“ruff???”
“But back to business. Whatcha doing in response to your faithful readers?”
“ruff?”
“Well, Missy, as I said, two of my faithful readers have let me know through the grapevine that my recounting of our conversations is confusing. They lose track of who’s saying what.”
“RUFF????”
“No, Rock. Everyone knows what you have to say. Your limited vocabulary is an asset in this regard.”
“I see. So folks confuse you and I?”
“Exactly.”
“I fail to see the problem.”
“I am in agreement. But I need to be responsive to my reader(s).”
“What’s to be done?”
“ruff?”
“One suggestion was to distinguish dialog by using different font/emphasis/color… .”
“I COULD BE PINK!!! PInk is such an excellent color! Oh! My! Goodness! You could capture everything I say in PINK for posterity!“
“rrrruuuuuuffffffuuuufffuuuffuuuff!!!!!”
“Dear Friend, I do not see what’s so funny.”
“r.u.f.f.”
“Well. Missy. If you want to be pink, who am I to argue with you? It is– last I checked– still a Free Country.”
I encourage you to read the whole thing because it is laugh out loud funny how completely ignorant some people are.
Pay particular attention to the “roadblocks,” otherwise know as rules.
So this woman starts by calling local Walmarts to figure out which ones sell guns. She has all sorts of difficulties b/c you know, they just don’t say. Lots more ignorant hilarity and finally she walks into one that does. Not long into the piece, you begin to realize she has never been in a WalMart before.
When I arrived, I looked for the sporting-goods department. I found it about 100 steps from the closest entrance to the store.
I thought at first this was an outright lie. A pace is about 2.5 feet, so 250 feet. What WalMart have you ever been in that had the sporting goods department at the front entrance? Note, however, that she says “closest entrance.” Ah ha! Sporting goods is next to Automotive, and if there’s a shop, there is an entrance. True, but misleading, especially for folks like herself who have never set foot in a WalMart.
On my way to the department, I walked past shelves of school supplies, the toy department, and the bike shop.
Oh the children!!!
A selection of about 20 rifles and shotguns was displayed in a locked glass case behind the sporting-goods counter. The guns ranged in price from $159 to $474.
The counter in front of the guns displayed pocket knives, binoculars, and digital night-vision monoculars inside a locked case.
Not quite sure what she was expecting. Walk in. Put a 12-ga. off the shelf, mosy on over to the self-checkout?
I told an employee behind the counter that I wanted to buy a gun. They called for a manager.
FOR THE LOVE OF STRUNK & WHITE AGREEMENT PEOPLE. AGREEMENT. HE OR SHE OR XE OR WHATEVER BUT NOT THEY.
After a few minutes, a Walmart manager arrived at the gun-sales counter. She said I could not buy a gun that day because no authorized firearm sellers were scheduled to work.
She. Much better. “Authorized firearms sellers.” What a concept.
Walmart also complies with state-specific requirements where applicable.
Go figure. So she comes back two days later. Blah blah. Need to have two employees present to make sure everything is on the up & up. Blah blah.
I started filling out the necessary paperwork to buy a gun.
The seller told me that my background check would likely be completed within a few minutes after I finished the paperwork. Once the purchase was finalized, an employee would walk the gun out to my car with me.
But I had only just finished printing my name when she stopped me and asked whether the address on my license matched my home address. I had moved since I obtained my license, and the addresses didn’t match. That was a problem, she said.
That’s a problem.
To pass the background check, I would need to bring in a government-issued document with my correct address, such as a bill from a state-owned utility or a car registration. (I have never bought a gun, so I wasn’t aware of this.) She apologized, told me the rules were strict around background checks, and asked me to come back another time to finish the purchase.
I left the store empty-handed — again.
At this point, I decided to give up on buying a gun at Walmart.
Ah man. And it’s soooo easy to buy a gun at WalMart.
According to that infallible source Wikipedia, ZZ Top created its signature sound during its first decade, 1973-1982. Let’s use 1978 as our half-way mark thorough that decade and do a little arithmetic.
In 1978 I was a 19 year old undergraduate.
2014 – 1978 = 36
1978 – 36 = 1942
Somewhere I have a crappy old book (or maybe two) listing top ten songs, popular bands and singers, and so on from years gone by. I’ll see if I’m able to find out who was marching in the hit parade in 1942.
That was the #1 song in 1942. Other top-selling bands/artists include such rocking names as Glen Miller, Woody Herman, and Jimmy Dorsey along with their respective orchestras.
I did find the book I was looking for– The Encyclopedia of American History (1965) which I’ve written about, it’s a great book. It put me on the trail of White Christmas which I’ve written about. Wikipedia confirmed the song’s status for ’42.
So to recap…
ZZ Top : undergraduates in 2014 = Bing Crosby : undergraduates in 1978
I don’t know what to say other than go see ZZ Top in concert at Mississippi State University October 30th.
Anna Mussmann has a piece up at The Federalist titled, “The Book World Is Getting Way Too Politicized. Here’s What To Do About That.” (Heh. Link says “trashier.” That’s funny.) It’s primarily about publishers and libraries and such, though she does emphasize the value of old books. Frankly, I did not find it all that insightful but that’s probably because I already know publishing is politicized and I value old books, too. But she does offer more than just criticism; for each there’s the what to do about it aspect. And there are some helpful suggestions in the comments, as well. So it’s worth a read.
The essay reminded me of a web site I visit from time to time, mostly when I have an overwhelming desire to get ticked off about something– which isn’t often but it does happen. Awful Library Books is written (I guess you would say) by two (for hire) Michigan public librarians, Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner. The web site features books that have been weeded (removed) from libraries, either by Mary and Holly (in their capacity of hiring out their weeding services), by other librarians, or submitted by readers of their blog.
I will grant that physical libraries are finite spaces, and further that books– and information– from a librarian’s point of view do become outdated. As they say,
Weeding is an essential component of library collection management. … [W]e must continually make room for new materials. Weeding is necessary to remain relevant to our users and true to our missions. Remember – unless your library exists to archive and preserve materials for the ages, we are not in the business of collecting physical things. We collect information and provide access to information. We love books as much as anyone else, and sometimes hard decisions have to be made.
But that’s as far as I’ll go with these two snarky sanctimonious ignoramuses and their equally ignorant submitters and commenters.
Let us begin by asking what possessed these two to name their blog, “Awful?” Why not “Obsolete / Outdated / Weeded Library Books?” Or even “Now Awful?” I get it. It’s catchy. And it makes them appear ever so smart. So smart, in fact, that they do not know the difference between singular and plural possessive pronouns. (Holly: Whyyy? Why would any library in the world have this on their shelf in 2018?) But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Why is this awful? It’s gendering!! Listen up, Ms Submitter. In 1979 there was no such word as “gendering.” Nope. Wasn’t a thing. Just looked in up in my 1993 unabridged (which does include “gender bender”– slang). Not there. In fact, in 1979 the word gender referred most commonly to language, to categories of nouns. And along the same lines– who does the dishes in your home, assuming you have a spouse / partner? Who cuts the grass? Who lifts heavy objects? I ask as someone who owns her very own very nice cordless drill and whose husband does almost all of the cooking. Over time, couples fall into routines with each doing the things he or she most enjoys– or at least detests less. There’s no gendering about it.
Ms Submitters points #2 & 3 refer to these from the TOC:
(Holly & Mary need to learn where the white balance button is. So smart.)
#2. How many wanna-be writers are there out in the world? I don’t read those section headings as questioning that women would really want to write– and for crying out loud, it’s 1979, it’s not like there were no women writers ever in the history of mankind (that’s right; I said mankind)– I read them as asking legitimate questions regarding the wanna-be’s motivations and self-awareness.
Mussmann– author of The Federalist piece– is a self-described “stay-at-home mom who writes during nap time.” You think when she started out she didn’t ask herself these same questions? You think as she wrote and wrote and tried to keep everything together she didn’t wondered if it was all worth it?
#3. Why the hell do you expect your spouse / partner to care about your happiness, Ms Submitter? What a truly stupid question.
Here’s the problem as I see it. These people have little, if any, sense of cultural history– that book is only 40 years old. And because they have no sense of the past they try to get an ought out of an is. Everything is as it is today, and it is all as it ought to have always been. And that’s not true. Never has been. Only teenagers are ignorant and inexperienced enough to think that. Well. Only teenagers ought to think that.
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.”
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