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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-García
September 6, 2020 September 7, 2020 ~ foodinbooks	~ 14 Comments
I'm as guilty as the next person of judging. I judge wine by the label on the bottle, musical artists by genre, and of course, books by their covers. In this case, can you blame me? The cover for Mexican Gothic is stunningly beautiful and hits me on all my levels: aesthetic, moody, mysterious, and colorful. Combined with the word "Gothic," you're damn right I pre-ordered this months in advance and devoured it in 6 hours when it finally arrived. It was well worth the wait.
The gist of the book is thus: Noemi is a wealthy socialite living the life in 1950s Mexico. She's a beautiful and intelligent woman whose chief problem is that she lives in a time and a place where people can't believe a woman can be both, so she compensates by putting on a bored persona. But inside, she is ready for something more. When her father gets a urgent letter from Catalina, Noemi's recently-married cousin, indicating she is in danger in her new marriage, he sends Noemi to the town of High Place to find out what is going on and to bring Catalina home if necessary. Not so fast, though. Catalina's in-laws and new husband are what you'd call shady.
Catalina has married into the very wealthy and extremely weird Doyle family, and boy, do they put the "fun" in "family dysfunction." The family patriarch, Howard, is beyond creepy. He is somewhere between 90 and death, and is pervertedly fascinated with the beautiful Noemi. Catalina's husband, Virgil, is handsome and flirtatious toward Noemi, and she is both sexually drawn to him and repulsed by him at the same time. Florence, Virgil's sister, runs the household like a military commander, not allowing Noemi to do or say anything. You can imagine how well that goes over with a young, independent and intelligent heroine like Noemi.
And then there's the youngest son, Francis, whose interest in botany, plants and growing fungi – namely mushrooms – are pivotal pieces of the book's plot. Noemi finds herself becoming friends with Francis and the longer she stays in High Place, the more she starts to be affected by the house, with terrifying dreams and visions, and she starts to suspect that something very weird and very scary is happening. It's not actually difficult to figure out what the source of the visions and hallucinations are, but it's part of the fun in reading this beautifully-written and atmospheric novel.
This is a wonderful book that combines mystery with Gothic romance, eugenics with some creepy Mexican folklore, some really great horror elements including ghosts, visions of blood, terrifying dreams, and a unique take on the haunted house trope that makes for some genuinely riveting reading. It actually reminded me quite a lot of the film Crimson Peak, that eerie movie by Guillermo del Toro, with similar elements of hallucinations, incestuous relations, and just that overall sense of mystery and doom.
I'd consider this book more of a slow burn than one of non-stop, intense horror. The horror is there, all right, but it's more of a low simmer, gradually escalating, grotesque, Lovecraftian, sickening horror that creeps up on you the further into the mystery you get, until you realize you're trapped with Noemi there with no avenue of escape. I like the intense terror as much as any horror fan, but I really enjoyed the slow build toward the final unraveling of the mystery surrounding the Doyle family.
As with many of the other books I read, I found myself culinarily inspired by a passage that isn't necessarily a food reference. when Noemi comes across Francis foraging in, of all places, the family cemetery! Hey, whatever floats your boat, right, but it also made me start thinking about what to make with those good ol', fungus among us, mushrooms!
He glanced down, nodding, looking at his basket. Now that he was with her, she had regained her levity, and she peered curiously at him. "What do you have there?" she asked, pointing at the basket. "I've been collecting mushrooms." "Mushrooms? At a cemetery?" "Sure. They're all around." "As long as you don't plan to make them into a salad." "What would be wrong with that?" "Only the thought of them growing over dead things." "But then mushrooms always grow over dead things in a way."
Yes, I was inspired to make a something from this passage about 'shrooms growing over dead things. Well, I'm strange like that. Anyway, being that the book was set in Mexico, and that it's also green chile season here in my home state of New Mexico, I decided a tasty recipe of mushroom, chorizo, and roasted corn queso fundido with homemade tortilla chips was on the menu. And the best part? I got to roast the green chile and the corn outside on my charcoal grill in my new backyard, thus breaking it in! In a manner of speaking. 🙂
1 lb chorizo sausage, squeezed out of the casing
1 lb white mushrooms, sliced
1 lb bella mushrooms, sliced
1 lb Monterey Jack cheese
1 lb Muenster cheese
1 lb queso fresco
6 Anaheim chile peppers, roasted and peeled
2 fresh ears of corn, still in the husks, roasted and cooled
1 dozen corn tortillas
Heat the olive oil in a heavy Dutch oven, saute the onion and garlic until soft, then add the chorizo and saute another 10 minutes.
Add in the mushrooms and saute again for another 10 minutes.
Cut the roasted corn kernels from the cobs, then add to the mushrooms and chorizo mixture. I actually did this using a Bundt pan, which was suggested to me by my friend and sous-chef Krista, and it was the best idea ever!
Chop the roasted green chile and add to the other ingredients in the pan.
Cube the cheeses into small pieces and add their gooey, melting goodness to the pan.
Mix everything together and cook on low, covered, so that the cheeses melt and get that lovely, unctuous texture that make your mouth water.
While the cheese is melting, heat the broiler in your oven and slice the corn tortillas into fourths, put on a baking tray and bake for 15-20 minutes until they get golden and crispy. Let cool.
Serve the piping-hot, meltingly gooey queso fundido with the tortilla chips and devour. Sooooo delicious, rich and very decadent. Eat this on a day when you haven't eaten another thing and have gotten in a good hour of cardio. It's well worth it, and the mushrooms will only make you have visions of heavenly deliciousness!
Episode 8 of "Cooking the Books" Podcast Now Available!
August 24, 2020 August 24, 2020 ~ foodinbooks	~ 8 Comments
Check out the latest episode of my podcast "Cooking the Books" and join me as we talk about vampires in 1990s Charleston, how one Southern belle wife and mom takes on this blood-sucking fiend, and make some delicious Southern party food, at:
https://anchor.fm/cookingthebooks/episodes/The-Southern-Book-Clubs-Guide-to-Slaying-Vampires-and-the-Bloody-Thrill-of-Cheese-Straws-ei0quq
The Heartbreaker by Susan Howatch
August 19, 2020 ~ foodinbooks	~ 2 Comments
You wouldn't normally think that the Church of England would make for scintillating reading, but you'd be sooooooo wrong if you start reading the "Church of England" series written by British author Susan Howatch. I stumbled across one of them going on 15 years ago now, and was hooked. The series is broken up into two semi-series – for lack of a better way to put it – with the first six books focusing on the evolution of the Church from post-WWI into the late 1960s with all the attendant changes that happened in the world. The second series consists of three intertwined books that feature references and characters from the first six books, but are set in 1990s London and take on much more timely and controversial topics than the first six. The last book of the series, The Heartbreaker, goes pretty in-depth into prostitution, homosexuality, cult mentality, some paranormal and supernatural elements including a form of devil worship, and ultimately, love and redemption. I highly recommend all nine books, but the latter three are unputdownable.
The main character is Gavin Blake, a male prostitute whose clientele are wealthy, middle-aged gay men, but he is actually heterosexual. If you're thinking "what the hell, how can a male prostitute servicing gay men be straight" you'd be where I was when I cracked open the book. But it's incredibly fascinating how Howatch writes about human nature in all of these books, particularly the fluid nature of sexuality and how it's possible to train your mind to do something completely alien to your nature if you're in survival mode.
Gavin works for a woman named Elizabeth, who is his pimp but who also runs a very nasty little group made up of people who use bizarre sex and occult rituals to gain power in London. He has come to depend on her as he is traumatized by much loss in his own life, loss of his brother, messed-up parents, the works. He's incredibly good-looking and charming, but the internal damage from his upbringing and the subsequent abuses he has gone through with Elizabeth turning him into a prostitute (though he doesn't initially see it as abuse) make him very superficial and facile. He indulges in affairs with women who he then dumps in his charming way……he is the ultimate heartbreaker who leaves a trail of disaster and heartbreak in his wake because he himself has had his heart broken and been devastated. Well, we all have in some way or other, haven't we?
When his path starts crossing with a woman named Carta Graham, he starts idolizing her and lusting after her, not realizing that she represents, on a very deep level, a way of life he used to have growing up and also a way of life that he is craving, though he continues to stay in the world of prostitution. He also meets Nicholas Darrow, the rector of a church called St. Benet's, a part of the Church of England that works with psychologists, doctors, and holistic healers, to create a place where people can worship and heal both physically and spiritually. Gavin is so emotionally damaged that it takes him awhile to figure out there can be a different way of life for him through Carta and Nicholas, and his journey starts……..but not without danger along the way.
The ways of the subconscious are deeply explored in all of these books, and particularly here. I've always found psychology and our inner instincts and how they sometimes work against us and make us do crazy or awful things in the name of survival, to be utterly fascinating. As Gavin starts to gradually extricate himself from the life of prostitution, he is helped by Carta, by Nick, and most importantly, by Susanne, who also works for Elizabeth as a bookkeeper but who had previously also been a prostitute until she had a meltdown and couldn't do it any longer. She represents someone who both can leave that lifestyle and heal themselves and get educated and be independent, which is why Gavin initially hates her because she has done what he wants to do with his life.
Flowers and Italian wine at my new kitchen table.
Susanne helps Gavin out of a major jam, involving blackmail sex tapes, illicit sex, etc., and to thank her, he takes her to the Savoy for champagne, dinner and dancing, and the next day, as they wait for the fallout from Elizabeth possibly finding out what they've done, Susanne grudgingly makes Gavin food and they begin to develop a friendship and a relationship that neither of them have had before. As they share a frittata and wine post-shag (as they call it in England), they start planning how to escape Elizabeth and her long, evil grasp.
After the shag Susanne keeps me organised by telling me I've got to eat some more, and she fixes what she calls a "fry-tartar," a jumbo omelette stuffed with onions, peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes. We have to have eggs again because she's run out of everything else, but the frittata's so good I don't care. We drink Italian wine with it and the cat goes in and out through the cat-flap, just as it would in a normal home.
Frittatas are among my favorite things to make, and not just because they're relatively simple. I hate to admit this, but I am kind of a dumbass when it comes to making omelettes because I can't master the damn omelette fold and flip. I know, I know, it's easy, blah blah blah. It's not. I have fucked up many, many potential omelettes in my life, and there was that time that one ended up on the floor………….thank God for dogs, is all I have to say. Anyway, here's my take on a classic Italian frittata, or as Susanne would call it, a fry-tartar!
1 russet potato, peeled and finely diced
1 red bell pepper, finely diced
3 green onions, finely diced
1 sausage link, squeezed out of its casing
1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup heavy cream (optional)
Heat your oven to 500 F. Add the oil to a heavy, cast-iron skillet and cook the potato until they soften, about 7-10 minutes. Set aside.
Mix the eggs together in a large bowl and whisk. Add salt and pepper to taste.
In the skillet, add a a bit more olive oil and add the diced red pepper, the diced onions, and the sausage meat, and stir together. Cook for about 5-7 minutes, until the onion is translucent and most of the liquid has cooked off.
Add the potatoes to skillet and mix everything together so everything is evenly spaced across the pan bottom.
Add the shredded cheese and the heavy cream to the eggs in the mixing bowl, whisk together again, then pour over the potato-pepper-sausage mixture in the skillet.
Cook stovetop over low heat until the eggs set on the bottom of the pan, about 5 minutes. Give the skillet a good swirl so the eggs evenly coat everything, then put the egg mixture into the oven and cook for another 5 minutes, so the eggs cook evenly.
Remove, let cool, and flip out onto a platter. Serve with the Italian wine of your choice. It's such a delicious and simple way to cook eggs and it's an excellent way to use up what's in your refrigerator before it goes bad or expires. And people will think you're a damn kitchen goddess!
The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020 ~ foodinbooks	~ 35 Comments
I found The Fifth Gospel to be quite a great read, fast-paced and adventurous, but with a fascinating historical and Biblical premise as the storyline. It's simple – a Greek Catholic priest living in The Vatican must defend his brother, also a Greek Catholic priest but one attached to the Pope's staff, who is accused of murder. The victim? An artist who recreated the Shroud of Turin for a Papal art show and made a discovery that could possibly turn the Catholic Church upside down.
It's very well written, heavy on Church history (which I like) and yet has a human side in the main character of Father Alex Andreou, whose desperate efforts to prove his brother innocent are matched only by his dedication to the Greek Catholic church, raising his son Peter, and hoping his estranged wife Mona will return to them both. She does, mysteriously one evening, and when she reunites with Peter, she brings dinner with her, in that clever way women have of knowing that the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
"Mona reaches into a plastic bag by her feet and says 'I brought dinner.' 'A gift,' she clarifies. 'From Nonna.' Peter's maternal grandmother. I recoil. Peter looks at the Tupperware and says…….'My favorite pizza is margherita.' 'I'm sorry,' Mona says, crestfallen. 'All I brought is some cacio e pepe.' Tonnarelli with cheese sauce. The devil inside me smiles. Her mother's version of the dish will be too peppery for Peter. A fitting introduction to the mother-in-law I always found to be an acquired taste."
This post came about, in part, from an IM conversation I had with my friend Luca Marchiori of Chestnuts and Truffles. Luca is not only my cooking hero, he's a marvelous chef, a talented food and travel writer, and takes the most wonderful photographs. He also lives in Italy and gets to travel around that beautiful country ALL THE TIME. Is it any wonder I want to be him?
Anyway, I've gotten in the habit (annoyingly to Luca, I'm sure!) of asking his advice about the week's upcoming blog post and my thoughts on how to make my recipe unique. Cacio e pepe is a traditional pasta dish that features three major ingredients – pasta, pepper and cheese. You really can't go wrong with that trio, but I wanted to add my own unique twist on the recipe, so I asked Luca what he thought of perhaps a margherita-style cacio e pepe, combining two food descriptions in the passage above.
Luca didn't think combining two separate pasta dishes into one was the best way to go, and when I mentioned wanting to make something one's own, he talked about the writing of Philippe Conticini, who was, in Luca's words, "a great patissiere who had the philosophy that when you were revising classic dishes you should make sure you keep all the original ingredients and not add more. Change the way they are put together rather than leaving out or adding."
Something to consider. So, rather than trying to make it into something unique, I decided to challenge myself by simply recreating this classic recipe, and having roasted tomatoes on the side. Not IN the dish, Luca, so calm down. But as a garnish. And guess what? It worked!
This is the method that worked for me, based on this article from Business Weekly, featuring the late, great, notorious Anthony Bourdain – my future husband – in Rome. I mean, Bourdain, Italy and pasta – the holy trinity, in my book. (And very fitting for today's post!)
1 lb bucatini pasta
3 tablespoons grated fresh Parmeggiano Reggiano cheese
3 tablespoons Pecorino cheese
Generous amount of ground black pepper
Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil. Once boiling, add the pasta and cook for about 6 minutes, until the pasta is almost cooked, but not quite. You'll see why in a minute.
One of the best cooking tips I've ever gotten in my life was to save some of the boiling water that the pasta has cooked in, and add a bit to whatever sauce you are making. The starch in the water helps the sauce to emulsify and thicken somewhat, and also adds to the dense flavor. So keep about a cupful of the pasta water before draining the pasta. But do keep some of the water on the noodles. Anna del Conte, the matriarch of Italian cooking and food writing, calls this "la goccia," which means "a drop" to keep the pasta moist.
In a separate saucepan, add the butter and a very generous amount of freshly ground black pepper. Melt the butter gently over low heat, then add the starchy pasta water. Swirl around to mix.
Add the cooked and drained pasta to the saucepan with the pasta water, butter and pepper. Stir around with tongs to finish cooking the pasta, about 2-3 minutes more. Taste to see if the pasta is al dente, with a small bite but cooked.
Remove from the heat, and add your cheeses to the hot pasta mixture. Stir again to mix and meld all the cheeses. You DO NOT want your cheese to be in lumps, which is why you want to do it when the pasta is hot off the stove. Just stir and swirl with your tongs and pretend you're one of those bad-ass Italian chefs who have that technique down pat.
Place a swirly pile in a shallow bowl, and sprinkle over more Parmeggiano, and add another generous sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper. Et voila! Cacio e pepe alla Romana!
Serve with roasted tomatoes on the side, which are simple to make. Slice the tomatoes thinly, and sprinkle over some slivered garlic. Toss with olive oil and dried basil, and roast at 425 for 30-35 minutes. Remove, let cool for about 15 minutes, then sprinkle over a dash of balsamic vinegar. Salt and pepper as you like.
A dish fit for a Pope!
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
May 5, 2020 May 5, 2020 ~ foodinbooks	~ 9 Comments
If you're like me and you're as drawn to a book's title and cover as you are the contents of the book itself, then you'll love this one. Grady Hendrix has a knack for writing about horror against the most banal, ordinary, American backgrounds. I think of him as the literary version of the Duffer Brothers in the sense that he, like they've done with Stranger Things, is able to take the best tropes of horror and not only turn them upside down but put them against a backdrop of ordinary, everyday life in a timeframe so familiar to us because most of us grew up then and can recognize the cultural and societal expectations of the time.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires is both satire and horror and it balances perfectly between the two. Patricia is a housewife in the mid-90s living in Charleston, in a very exclusive neighborhood called Pierates Cruze. She's the average Southern belle turned wife/mom/daughter-in-law. Her husband is a doctor and works all the time; her two kids are teenagers and are perfectly horrible; she caretakes for her elderly, senile mother-in-law and of course, she has her group of friends who are equally boring, wealthy and proper……except they really aren't. Well, they never are, are they?
Their original book club fizzles out due to the sheer boringness of the books chosen by the first book club head, so Patricia, Kitty, Grace, Maryellen and Slick form their own book club in which they read true crime and horror and any manner of horrendous novels. So when James Harris moves in next door in all his scary, sexy glory and Patricia starts experiencing and seeing some very weird and frightening things, she is in the right mindset for horror. James claims to be the nephew of the awful old woman who suffers a psychotic episode and attacks Patricia, their house is overrun with vicious rats who – and this scene is not for the faint of heart (I skimmed it) – attack Patricia's mother-in-law so viciously that she dies, and with this and some other gruesome goings-on, Patricia begins to strongly suspect the new neighbor is a vampire.
Though the horror is intense and quite gross at times, for me the true horror was how easily Patricia is made to feel like she is crazy, how she is ostracized within her own group of friends, how her husband subjugates her, and how easy it is for her to doubt herself and question her own sanity when she knows what she has seen and when she tries to get people to realize what is going on. That was more monstrous than any vampire – that absolute lack of self-worth, lack of self-esteem, lack of any true resources of one's own. I kept wanting to shake her and smack her upside the head to get her to realize that she did not have to allow herself to be treated the way she was.
I like a good twist on a horror trope as much as the next girl, and Hendrix delivers. He is in that same modern group of horror novelists such as Paul Tremblay, Jason Arnopp and F.G. Cottam – and I have blogged all of them previously – who run with the horror tropes of vampires, ghosts, haunted houses, werewolves, demonic possession, home invasion and the occult – and give them new life by completely presenting them in unexpected ways. Hendrix kicks ass with this updated edition of Dracula. This vampire is meaner, grosser, way more visceral and so much more loathsome than the Count himself ever could be. This vampire still controls the mean creatures of the earth – bats, rats, bugs. This vampire is still dangerously sexy and able to entice its victims and he still needs to be invited over the threshold to enter a home……all little grace notes that I appreciated. But this vampire is the most vicious I've run across in modern literature and Hendrix is one hell of a visceral writer. Don't read this while you're eating……which I realize is ironic, considering the point of my blog. 🙂 Just don't. Trust me on this.
And of course, being set in the South, there is food. Lots of food, and exactly the type of food you'd expect from upper-class, wealthy Southern housewives – Boston cream pie, peach pie, any variety of casseroles, a crab boil, a massive amount of cocktails, Swedish meatballs, and of course, the inevitable party finger food consisting of crudités, ham biscuits, pimiento cheese sandwiches and my favorite, cheese straws. You can't have a party in the Deep South and not have cheese straws. You'd get thrown out of Tara like Scarlett O'Hara, my dear!
The party spilled from the living room into the dining room, where it swirled in a circle around a table overflowing with miniature ham biscuits, cheese straws, pimento cheese sandwiches, and a tray of crudités that would be thrown out untouched tomorrow morning…….
This is the method for Southern-style cheese straws I used, based on the recipe by the late, great Edna Lewis, who is one of the great African-American chefs of the last 100 years and whose classic cookbook Taste of Country Cooking is one of my favorites.
1 and 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or more to taste
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature and cut into pieces
2 and 1/2 cups extra-sharp cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
Sift the flour, mustard, salt and cayenne into a medium bowl.
Using your most awesome red Kitchen Aid with the paddle attachment, beat together the cheese and butter on low until well blended.
Gradually mix in the flour mixture until completely incorporated, then add the water and beat for another few minutes until the dough comes together.
Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times, then roll it out into a rough rectangle on a parchment sheet-covered baking tray, and chill about half an hour.
Heat the oven to 425F, and trim the dough edges, cut in half, then again into strips roughly 6 inches by 1/4″, but don't get out the ruler. Just long, skinny strips will work.
Bake for 20 minutes, or until they're golden-brown, crisp, and you can smell the cheese. Let cool and enjoy with soup, salad, or as a snack with your evening cocktail. Any Southern belle would surely approve!
The Wonder Worker by Susan Howatch
April 2, 2020 April 2, 2020 ~ foodinbooks	~ 16 Comments
This is one of those books I would want with me if trapped on a desert island. The Wonder Worker has many levels, and is one of those wonderful stories that you return to again and again, always finding something new in the words.
On the surface level, it's a story about four everyday people and their lives at the London-based Anglican rectory of St. Benet's Church. Nicholas Darrow is the rector of St. Benet's, and along with his assistant priest Lewis Hall, they run the church and affiliated Healing Center. Alice Fletcher is their cook/housekeeper, and Rosalind Darrow is Nicholas's wife and the ultimate match that sets the flame for the dramatic events that happen in the book. The story is told from their individuals viewpoints, and one of the things I like most about this book is how you see the same events through differing lenses, and you always empathize with each character, even if you hated them when reading about them from another character's POV.
On another level, this book is about spirituality and The Church of England, which might not sound like the greatest thrill in the world, but you'd be surprised. Howatch brings the rituals, beliefs and psychology of the Anglican Church vividly to life. Each of these four characters is in their own emotional or spiritual predicament, and it's the combination of these four different emotional crises that bring the book to its very exciting and disturbing climax, involving a demonic possession! And who doesn't love a demonic possession?
On the deepest level, it's about the power of love. Love has many facets, as we all know. What I took away was the understanding of true, unconditional love for another person. You don't have to like the actions of the other person, and you certainly don't have to condone their actions, in order to still love them. Alice is in love with Nicholas, though they never cross the line into adultery. Her initial feelings for him are romantic, schoolgirlish; she sees him through the rose-colored glasses of instant infatuation. When she begins to see his darker side, though, she still loves him and makes more of an effort to understand him. She accepts him always, even though some of his actions later in the book are appalling and she never condones them. It is this understanding and acceptance that helps her learn more about her own motivations and spirituality. She becomes a better person for loving him, and ultimately, it's this unconditional love for him that transforms everyone else around them. And that is what spoke to my heart, that knowledge that true, unconditional love for another, can make you a better, stronger person. It definitely did me.
Back to the book. Rosalind decides to cook an elegant dinner for herself and Nicholas when she visits St. Benet's, somewhat under duress. She plans a civilized, gourmet meal during which they will dine, drink wine, and she will tell him she wants a divorce. What could possibly go wrong in this scenario?
"For the first course I had decided to do deep fried radicchio with goat's cheese, a very tasty starter which apart from the final frying, can be prepared ahead of time……For the main course I had chosen roast guinea fowl."
Guinea hen is what it's called here in America, but I substituted Cornish game hens because that's what I had stashed in the freezer and wanted to avoid an unnecessary trip to the grocery store. As well, I had some porcini mushrooms I'd bought awhile back and it occurred to me that their rich, bosky, reconstituted flavors would be fantastic with Cornish game hen, and grilled radicchio with a tasty twist. This is the method that worked for me.
3 Cornish game hens, room temperature
3 strips of good quality, thick bacon
1 shallot, peeled and finely chopped
3 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
1 rib of celery, finely chopped
3-4 sprigs fresh rosemary
1/2 teaspoon truffle oil
1 cup dried porcini mushrooms
1 cup chanterelle mushrooms
1 cup strong red wine
1 head red radicchio, cut into quarters
Parmegiano-Reggiano cheese
Soak the porcini and chanterelle mushrooms in a cup of hot water each for about 30 minutes.
Fry the bacon until crisp, and remove to a paper towel to drain. In the bacon juices, cook the shallots and garlic.
Drain the mushrooms, but KEEP the liquid they've been soaking in. Chop the mushrooms and add them to the shallots, garlic and rosemary mixture. Crumble up the bacon and add it to the mixture as well.
Season the insides and outsides of the Cornish game hens with salt and pepper. Stuff each cavity with a sprig of rosemary. Then add the mushroom-bacon stuffing.
Slice a lemon thinly, and carefully tuck small slices between the Cornish hen skin and the meat. This helps tenderize and adds more flavor. Tuck the little birds into a casserole, pour over some olive oil, and squeeze over the juice of half a lemon. In a separate pan, combine the red wine, mushroom juices and a chicken bouillon cube. Whisk in about a tablespoon of cornstarch. Stir and cook constantly for 20 minutes. Pour the liquid over the birds, c0ver with a lid and cook stovetop for 30 minutes at medium. Heat the oven to 375.
After 30 minutes on the stove, remove the lid and put the pan of birds into the oven to cook for another 40 minutes. You want them uncovered so the liquid reduces into a gravy, and the birds get crisp. Check them occasionally to make sure they don't burn.
While this is happening, grill your radicchio. Brush each quarter with olive oil, salt and pepper, and grill on a stovetop grill for about 5 minute per side, until those nice, black, charred marks show up. Squeeze over some lemon juice and grate over some fresh Parmesan cheese.
Serve with any starch you'd like. I love black Japanese rice, so I cooked mine in a mixture of chicken and tomato broths, and garnished with slivered almonds.
The result? Almost heavenly! The Church would approve.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
October 28, 2019 October 28, 2019 ~ foodinbooks
I didn't actually read this book when I was a kid, but since it's ostensibly a kid's book that weirded me out having read it as an adult, I think it fits snugly into my own Halloween canon this year. Coraline is just plain creepy. It hits a nerve for any kid, me included, who grew up wishing they had different parents. Well, that's all of us, isn't it?
Coraline is a typical kid. She has quite an imagination and loves to wander off and find adventures. In fact, it's her search for adventure in her new house that leads her to find the other side. Coraline is essentially ignored by her parents, which as an adult is somewhat understandable. As a kid, to simply want your parents to pay attention to you, to be "normal," is an essential part of every kid's experience growing up. Some parents are better than others. Coraline's are not. They aren't mean or abusive, nor do they neglect her in a bad way. They are simply wrapped up in their own lives, their own careers, their own interests and they seem to have forgotten that they have a kid who needs some feedback and attention.
So when Coraline goes exploring and discovers the other house and the Other Mother and Other Father, who welcome her with such happiness and joy and wonderful home cooking and her own bedroom filled with magical toys and the promise that she can stay with them forever if she wants to, it's no wonder she is tempted.
What the underlying theme in this film is is bravery. Coraline is a brave kid, taking on a terrifying task of finding the souls of the three children whom the Other Mother has already taken, and possibly losing her own in the process. The Other Mother is truly frightening. She has black button eyes and seems to know the deepest parts of Coraline's mind and soul, anticipating Coraline's moves when Coraline tries to find and release the souls of the other children trapped there. But it's tempting for Coraline as well, because the Other Mother promises something Coraline doesn't get from her parents – normalcy and attention. The fact that the Other Mother also does what any dream mother would do – cook a kid's absolute favorite foods – is another mark in her favor since in her regular world, her real father cooks all this horrible gourmet food when he should realize that Coraline only wants microwaved food, like any regular kid. 🙂
Coraline's father stopped working and made them all dinner. Coraline was disgusted. "Daddy," she said, "you've made a recipe again." "It's leek and potato stew, with a tarragon garnish and melted Gruyere cheese," he admitted. Coraline sighed. Then she went to the freezer and got out some microwave chips and a microwave pizza."
Well, I don't know about Coraline but to me, potato and leek soup with Gruyere and tarragon sound absolutely delicious, and perfect to make as the late summer weather changes to cool autumn temperatures. So that's what I made. (Obligatory shot of my dog included, just because she's cute.)
3 leeks, well cleaned and trimmed
3 leeks, trimmed and well washed
1 carton chicken broth
1/2 bottle white wine
1 tablespoon fresh chopped tarragon
1 tablespoon Better than Bouillon
3 tablespoons grated Gruyere cheese
Melt the butter in a large pan. Slice the leeks into rounds and add to the butter. Let saute for about 5 minutes.
Finely mince the garlic and the tarragon and add both to the leeks in the pan. Let them cook together for another 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add a dash or two of sea salt.
Cube the peeled potatoes and add to the leeks, tarragon, and garlic. Stir around to cover with the butter.
Add the dried thyme, pour over the chicken broth and the white wine, cover and let simmer for 45 minutes, until the potatoes have completely softened.
Bust out the fabulous stick blender and blend until everything is smooth and velvety and unctuous.
Add in the grated Gruyere cheese and stir to mix and melt. Let simmer a few more minutes, tasting for seasoning.
Decant into soup bowls and garnish with some more fresh tarragon. The licorice hint from the tarragon is a perfect contrast to the starchy potatoes and rich cheese. So delicious! I think it might even convince Coraline to try it!
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
September 25, 2019 September 25, 2019 ~ foodinbooks	~ 42 Comments
Apparently I missed National Hobbit Day, which was on Sunday, September 22. Well, hell! Who knew this was a thing? Me, it would seem. Anyway, three days later, I present this lovely blog post in homage to my favorite fictional fantasy foodies! Who, I ask you, doesn't love The Lord of the Rings trilogy, whether the books or the films? Or, like me, both! But the books are a pivotal read in anyone's life, especially those of us who live primarily in their imaginations, who are fans of fantasy and sci-fi, or who study and love the construction of language and linguistics. The Lord of the Rings trilogy fulfills all those, plus they are just damn good adventure stories unto themselves.
I read them all when I was about 13. They were my dad's, who was also a huge bookworm, and the book containing all three stories is one of the things I'm most proud to have inherited from him, along with his love of books and reading. (That's my dad! Wasn't he handsome?)
He always had several books in his car, and it was like a movable feast of novels to climb in and see what he'd been reading. I think most of the books I was turned onto in my early teens were books he himself was reading. It by Stephen King, Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, The Collected Works of Guy de Maupaussant, The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, and of course, Tolkien's masterpiece.
My version has all three of the novels – The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King – all in one large tome, and I'm on Book 2 – again. One of the funniest scenes in the book, and which was brilliantly visualized in the film, was from The Two Towers, Chapter 4, "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit," when Frodo and Sam are searching for the One Ring, and they've captured Gollum to be their guide into Mordor. Sam, as usual, is hungry, which is the the usual state for a Hobbit, and tries to get Gollum to find some herbs to make a rabbit stew, which he dreams about garnishing with potatoes, or as he endearingly calls them "taters."
"Smeagol won't go, O no precious, not this time," hissed Gollum. He's frightened, and he's very tired, and this hobbit's not nice, not nice at all. Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?" "Po-ta-toes," said Sam. "The Gaffer's delight, and rare good ballast for an empty belly."
In the film, Sam is very sarcastic in describing what they are, telling Gollum "boil em, mash em, 'stick em in a stew." The movie scene is, of course, hilarious, but I also loved the scene in the book because I could just imagine Sam whapping Gollum upside his head for not understanding how important potatoes really are.
Humor aside, The Lord of the Rings books are such a wonderful adventure of friendship, love, sacrifice, linguistics and symbolism, and ultimately doing something for a cause greater than yourself. The books have been analyzed and reviewed hundreds of times by scholars and readers far more intelligent than me, so all I will say is that everyone should read these books.
Back to the po-tay-toes. Potato soup. With cheddar. And Guinness. You can't tell me that doesn't sound delectable, fit food even for a Hobbit, who we know are discerning eaters and love their beer. I found this recipe on the delicious food blog Simply Recipes, and though I tweaked it slightly, the overall recipe remains faithful to Elise Bauer's version and is, I think, a wonderful homage to Tolkien, Frodo, and of course, our own chef of Middle-Earth, Sam.
Butter and olive oil
3 ribs of celery
2 carrots, peeled
4-5 russet potatoes, peeled and sliced fairly thinly
3-4 cups chicken stock, enough to cover the potatoes
1 1/2 cups Guinness extra stout (probably the whole bottle because why waste it?)
Chicken stock cube
Ground thyme
7 ounces of extra sharp cheddar, shredded
Several dashes of Worchestershire sauce
Paprika and fresh thyme leaves for garnish
Finely dice the onion, celery, garlic and carrots, and cook in a large soup pot with the olive oil and butter over medium heat. Sprinkle over some salt to release their juices and keep from burning. Cook about 10 minutes, or until the veg are soft and translucent.
Add the potato slices, stir so they are covered with the vegetable mush, then add the chicken stock, the Guinness and the stock cube.Oh, that lovely scent!
Toss in a good tablespoon of the ground thyme, two bay leaves, cover and let simmer for about 20-30 minutes, until the potatoes are soft and tender and can be easily cut with a fork.
Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly. What's fun about making this soup is it gives you an excuse to bust out the stick blender. I love playing with the stick blender, because it makes me feel competent and like I know what I'm doing. Add about a handful of the shredded cheese to the soup mixture, then blitz with the hand mixer. Go cautiously, so you don't splatter yourself with hot soup. Continue adding in the cheese and mixing until all is combined into a smooth, golden consistency.
Stir to mix and amalgamate everything, and put on low heat to gently get back to a nice, piping hot temperature, then add in some dashes of Worchestershire sauce – dashes being the scientific measurement here – and strip off some fresh thyme leaves and sprinkle across the top. Add a sprinkle (another scientific measurement!) of smoked paprika for color and added garnish, and swallow down one heavenly mouthful at a time. Very good with any extra Guinness you might have on hand, or with a nice, bold red wine.
Ode to Tomatoes (A Poem) by Pablo Neruda
I don't know about you, but I've never been big on poetry. The rhythm and meters necessary to appropriately read poems just bog me down. I love hearing poetry read by someone who understands how it should be enunciated, but when I try to read poetry, either in my head or out loud, I sound like an idiot. Well, with the exception of the poems of Pablo Neruda.
Neruda is my favorite poet in all the world. He writes in a sensual, lyrical rhythm that is a gorgeous combination of the magical realism so common in Latin American writing, and a pure, romantic worldview centered around love. His arguable masterpiece of love poetry is his Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, though I personally love Cien sonetos de amor (100 Love Sonnets). Cien sonetos, in my humble opinion, is probably one of the most beautiful and erotic collections of poetry in the world, mature and beautiful and quite sensual. I highly recommend you read them if you haven't already.
As much a political figure as a poet, Neruda was born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in Chile. His poetry was considered beautiful, avant-garde, and at times, very subversive to the repressive government in his home country. Highly respected as both a writer and a political figure, he traveled extensively throughout the world, both as a diplomat and after he was forced into exile by after Chile outlawed Communism. A believer in pure Communist ideals, he was associated such other exalted revolutionaries as Garcia Lorca, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Allende. It is believed he was killed by the Pinochet government, which he had fervently criticized. Proof that words can be as powerful as any other weapon, if used correctly.
Though I adore Neruda's love sonnets, the Odes he wrote in homage to everyday, normal items such as food, are my absolute favorites. He wrote odes using these mundane objects as personification of the human experience. Odes to a tuna he saw in the marketplace, golden lemons, pearly onions, jade-green artichokes, ruby and topaz-colored wine, and tomatoes, comparing the crimson flesh of the tomato to the bleeding and suffering of mankind, but also finding the sheer joy in these common foods.
Being both a reader and an avid cook, I've always found his odes to food so filled with pleasure and sensuality. It's interesting that Neruda is as comfortable detailing his political beliefs in a logical manner as he is describing the eroticism of kissing his lover or the joys of drinking wine or eating a tomato.
filled with tomatoes,
midday,
summer,
light is halved like
its juice runs
through the streets.
In December,
unabated,
the tomato
invades
the kitchen,
it enters at lunchtime,
its ease
on countertops,
among glasses,
butter dishes,
blue saltcellars.
It sheds
its own light,
benign majesty.
Unfortunately, we must
murder it:
into living flesh,
a cool
inexhaustible,
populates the salads
of Chile,
happily, it is wed
to the clear onion,
and to celebrate the union
child of the olive,
onto its halved hemispheres,
its fragrance,
salt, its magnetism;
it is the wedding of the day,
parsley hoists its flag,
potatoes bubble vigorously,
the aroma
of the roast
knocks at the door,
and, on
the table, at the midpoint
of summer,
the tomato,
star of earth, recurrent and fertile star,
its convolutions,
its canals,
its remarkable amplitude
and abundance,
no pit,
no husk,
no leaves or thorns,
the tomato offers
its gift
of fiery color
and cool completeness.
Isn't that just beautiful? In honor of this magnificent poet, I decided to create an homage meal that incorporated tuna, onion, lemon, tomatoes, artichoke, and of course, wine. This is the method that worked for me, based on this marvelous recipe from Beauty and the Foodie, creating tuna-stuffed tomatoes alongside lemon-steamed artichokes and a beautiful, garnet-hued Chilean wine. I do think Neruda would approve wholeheartedly of this meal created in his honor.
2 large, ripe tomatoes
1-6 ounce can of good-quality tuna, drained and flaked
1/2 red onion, finely minced
1/2 celery rib, finely minced
1/2 tablespoon Italian parsley, finely minced
Pre-heat your oven to 400F and spray a baking sheet with olive oil spray. While the oven heats, saute the diced onion in a bit of olive oil and salt, just until it's translucent.
While the onion is cooling, cut the tops of the tomatoes off about 1/3 from the top. Scoop out the seeds and pulpy juices, saving some.
Drain the tomato halves upside down on a plate while you prepare the tuna salad. Mix the now-cooled onion with the flaked tuna, the celery and parsley, the tomato seeds and the lemon juice.
Add in the mayonnaise and mustard, and season with salt and pepper.
Fill each tomato half with the tuna mixture, and top with a slice of cheddar cheese.
Bake for 15 minutes, or until you see the cheese getting meltingly golden.
While the tomatoes are roasting, boil two trimmed and stemmed artichokes in salted, lemony water for 15 minutes. Drain and allow to steam for another 5-10 minutes. Melt some butter and lemon juice in a bowl, and season with salt.
Serve the luscious, meltingly good stuffed tomatoes on a platter with an artichoke, and with a lovely glass of Chilean wine, and enjoy the visual poetry of this ode to good food.
Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland
August 12, 2019 August 12, 2019 ~ foodinbooks	~ 25 Comments
I went into this book expecting a nice, escapist type of read as I recovered from minor outpatient surgery this past weekend. It was recommended by two friends of mine as a book filled with art and food and set in France, and both of them were sure I'd love it. I minored in Art History and of course, I am a foodie par excellence and love travel, so I gave it a whirl. When you're recuperating from any medical procedure, minor or major, you don't really want anything too heavy or deep.
(sigh) That being said, Lisette's List was boring. I'm sorry, I hate to slam on books and writers because God knows, I am not an author. The author of this book, Susan Vreeland, had previously written a wonderful novel called Girl in Hyacinth Blue, which told the story of a Dutch painting and its owners starting in modern times and going back through when it was painted, in a series of interconnected short tales. It was beautifully written and moved along brilliantly. This book? Not so much.
The basic premise is a young woman, Lisette, who moves with her husband Andre, to a small town in Provence to help care for Andre's ailing grandfather Pascal in the late 1930s. Pascal, before he dies, gradually teaches Lisette about painting and colors and life. Sounds nice, right? It's not. Dull. Andre goes off to fight the Nazis and of course, dies. Before he went off to fight, he hid away some family paintings worth millions. The rest of book is the tale of Lisette moving away from Provence, following her "list" that she had put together with Pascal of all the things she wanted to do with her life, including finding those family paintings before the Nazis get their nasty little hands on them.
The book had a lot of promise, and the basic premise could have been done so much better. And of course, the lavish descriptions of rural French country towns, the art itself and the luscious food so typical of Provence and southern France were really the redeeming parts of the book. But the main character, Lisette, doesn't ever really develop much as a character and in fact, makes some decisions which are downright annoyingly stupid. I mean, if you're savvy enough to go off on your own throughout southern France in search of valuable family paintings, you're surely smart enough to figure out who is your enemy. Anyhoo…..
Like I said, the food descriptions were wonderful and in some cases, mouth-watering. There were any number of food passages I could have reenacted, but this particular dish sounded both intriguing and perfect for the current late summer bumper crop of heirloom tomatoes that are on jewel-like, glowing display at every grower's market. I was lucky enough to have purchased a large bag of organic heirlooms last week and decided to put them to delicious use.
Soon, Odette's daughter, Sandrine, whose brother Michel, would come home someday, and Madame Pinatel, the mayor's wife, came to pay their respects. Then Melanie brought two jars of canned cherries from their trees and a bag of raisins. Aloys Biron, the butcher, brought a large salami. Most unexpectedly, Madame Bonnelly, a stout woman with thick arms whom I had never met, brought a gratin d'aubergines, an eggplant-and-tomato pie garnished with breadcrumbs.
I have a love-hate relationship with eggplant, but the idea of a tomato pie sounded luscious, so I did a little culinary research and came up with this method which is a combination of Elise Bauer's recipe from Simply Recipes and a long-remembered recipe from Southern Living I read about a few years ago.
1 and 1/4 cups unbleached flour
1 stick (8 tablespoons) cold, unsalted butter, cut into cubes
4 tablespoons ice-cold water
1 pound heirloom tomatoes, preferably fresh and organic
1 shallot
1 cup of mixed shredded cheeses. I used sharp cheddar, pepperjack and Gruyere
1 cup shaved Parmesan cheese
For the piecrust:
Combine the flour with a teaspoon of salt, and gradually mix in the butter one small cube at a time. Add the water a bit at a time until the dough comes together in your Kitchen Aid and forms a ball. Wrap in plastic and freeze overnight.
Slice the tomatoes, lie them out on some parchment paper, and sprinkle over salt and garlic powder. Leave to drain overnight.
Mix together all the cheeses except for the Parmesan, then mince the garlic and add it to the cheese mixture.
Add in the mayonnaise and the Greek yogurt and stir to mix well.
Finely mince the shallot.
Heat the oven to 350F and roll out your cold piecrust to roughly 12 inches diameter, then press into a pie pan.
Blind-bake the crust for 15 minutes, remove and prick the bottom of the crust a few times, and bake another 10 minutes. Sprinkle the shallots into the bottom.
Spoon over the cheese-mayo-yogurt mixture and spread across so that it cover the pie base and shallot-garlic mix.
Lay the tomatoes in overlapping circles over the cheese mixture, and sprinkle the Parmesan over the top.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until the Parm is nicely golden brown. Apply to your face.


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July 4, 2019 by smilethroughthefog
Sometimes I find myself holding my breath. My subconscious waiting for this bad dream to all be over. And then I come back to reality again and realize I'm still here, that cloud of uncertainty looming over my head as I head in for another scan wondering is this the time?
Back at the hospital I go through the motions: gowning up, the poke of a needle, the cold hard feel of the imaging table. I feel the barrel of the gun whizzing through my head, a game of Russian roulette. Will I get lucky this time? It's a weird place to be in. We're told to move on from cancer. To leave it all behind. You beat it, you're cancer free! But cancer haunts you. Every new ache and pain seems much less innocent and so much more sinister. Trying to discern between whether it's something to worry about or just another lingering side effect of chemo, radiation, and hormone therapy.
I've been having hip pain for about 9 months now. I was told it was bursitis, an inflamed tendon likely and was brushed away wondering now whether I was just overreacting about the whole thing. But something just hasn't felt right. My doctor went through the process of ordering an x-ray, then an ultrasound and I found myself at each appointment, scanning the technician's face trying to get some idea of what they were seeing on the screen. Uh oh – they clicked on something, they're checking my other hip now, something must not be right! And there it goes, my mind down the rabbit hole again…
I went in for my first bone scan three years ago just as I was beginning my first round of chemo. I was terrified, the not knowing, the waiting and worrying whether things would change from fighting through cancer to fighting for my life. It felt like this huge knot in my stomach. So when my oncologist told me he wanted to order another bone scan, I felt myself reliving those same emotions, PTSD rearing its head once again. I reminded myself that it would be a good thing, help give me peace of mind knowing it was all clear (hopefully). But as much as I want to know, it's hard to accept the brutal thought of the unknown.
Part of the trouble with this disease is that you want to educate yourself, you want to have all of the information but in holding that information, you are also faced with the hard truths. And that can be really difficult to think about sometimes. The statistics looming over my head wondering on what side of the numbers I may fall. My life changing unexpectedly with the click of a button, a report holding my fate in its starkly typed notes. I often hear people say you could get hit by a car tomorrow, but when you are diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, it feels like you're playing in traffic.
So now here I am, trying my best to not sit with these thoughts too long. Focusing instead on keeping the scanxiety at bay. And wanted to share with you all how I get through these times and what others have suggested to me along the way:
The waiting game is literally the worst. You wait to get an appointment, then wait some more to go in for the actual scan, and then wait again to see your doctor and find out the results. Ugh! There's nothing like sitting at home with my brain on overdrive playing out every scenario in my head. It's easy for our minds to go there. To go straight to the C word. And honestly, I sometimes feel like if I could measure my thoughts in terms of miles, I probably would've run about a thousand marathons by now. So I've been trying to keep my mind preoccupied as much as I can whether it's hanging out with friends or family, reading a book, watching a funny show (currently watching Good Girls which is hilarious), writing, or going for a walk. Anything to get my mind out of the cancer gutter.
I've really had to work on this one. Letting go of the things I cannot change and relinquishing some of the control. I felt like I was in the prime of my life when I was diagnosed. I was busy travelling, crushing my career goals, staying active and healthy, and then cancer happened. My daily routine now consisting of treatments, scans, bloodwork, surgeries and appointments instead. Everything in my life put on pause as the torch was passed to my doctors, trailing along behind the light wondering where we were going next. But I tried to focus now on the things I could change and allow myself to give up some of that control. To preserve my energy when I was really going to need it most. Because if I didn't, I was going to end up feeling even more powerless than before. Letting go doesn't mean you're giving up. It means you're finding trust and acceptance within yourself to move forward.
Going in for scans and treatments can feel like such a negative experience: the anticipation leading up to it, the poking, the prodding, and then the crash of emotions afterwards. One of the things someone suggested to me recently was booking myself in for a treat after scans and putting a more positive spin on it. A massage, pedicure, or even just a nice warm bath to relax. It helps give you something to look forward to after the stress of going through this. Kind of like a little reward in a way for getting through all this shit and saying at the end of the day heck yes I deserve this!
Lastly though, it's important to know that aside from trying to manage these feelings of scanxiety, it's perfectly okay to not be okay all the time too. It's not always about putting on a brave face and being the poster girl of positivity, but being able to have the courage to say, ya I'm really struggling right now. Honestly, there are some days where I just need to have a good cry, acknowledge the rollercoaster of emotions, and then swiftly crank on some 80s tunes and say not today cancer.
How do you cope with scanxiety?

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Tekken 4 to support progressive scan?? Is this yet another false hope??
Discussion in 'Archived Threads 2001-2004' started by Fernando Chen, May 1, 2002.
After hopes being raised with sled storm and then being sunk, the idea of progressive scan for ps2 seemed to die. But then I get this article.
Another progressive possibility for ps2. I wonder if this is real this time. Anybody else hear about this??
Tekken 4 is the first PS2 title to feature a 525p progressive scan mode. Holding the triangle and X buttons after putting the game in will call up a screen that gives you the option of toggling progressive scan mode on. Videophiles who own progressive scan televisions will marvel at the game running through component cables in this mode--the image clarity is stunning. Hopefully, more developers will support this feature."
Sure no offense Fernando, I just always wanted to sing that. :b So thank you!


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Lesson One: The meaning and messages behind The Fool and The Magician tarot cards.


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Salix fargesii, le saule de Farges, est une espèce de saule, native de Chine. Il tient son nom de Paul Farges, missionnaire et botaniste français envoyé dans le nord de la Chine.

Description

Salix fargesii est originaire des provinces du Sichuan, de Gansu, de l'ouest de l'Hubei et du Shaanxi à une altitude comprise entre .
Le saule de Farges est un buisson qui pousse lentement. Son débourrement coloré de rouge, ses grandes feuilles brillantes, ses longs chatons dressés et ses bourgeons rouges en hiver constituent ses attraits.
Il possède des rameaux vigoureux de couleur brun rouge, s'étalant facilement.
Ses feuilles sont caduques, alternes, simples, oblongues, finement dentées, soyeuses dessous, longues de .
Les fleurs apparaissent en chatons dressés, au printemps, en même temps les feuilles. Les chatons mâles mesurent de  de long, les chatons femelles de . Les fleurs de chaque sexe sont séparés sur des sujets différents.
Le fruit est une capsule qui libère des akènes entourées de coton, dispersées par le vent.

L'espèce a besoin de lumière et de soleil et demande un sol frais et humifère.
Elle résiste parfaitement aux températures les plus froides mais est très sensible aux gelées tardives qui peuvent l'endommager.

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 Cheng-fu Fang, Shi-dong Zhao, Alexei K. Skvortsov: Salix fargesii, in der Flora of China, Band 4, S. 229.

Liens externes

 USDA Plants Profile.

 Fitschen: Gehölzflora, S. 767
 USDA Plants Profile.
 The Nature Conservancy.
 Salix fargesii, consulté le 2012-09-09. Sur Plant List

Flore (nom vernaculaire)
Salicaceae (Cronquist)
Salicaceae
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Review of Hans Krongaard Kristensen, "Øm Kloster" (2020)
Wienberg, Jes;
Publisher: Jysk Arkæologisk Selskab
Publication . Article . 2021
Genforeningens mindesmærker – at forme et erindringsfællesskab
At the 100 years anniversary in 2020 of the Reunion around 650 memorials have been protected. The memorials are to be found all over Denmark, where they constitute the largest group. The time of their erection, the localization, design, inscriptions, pictures and initiators are relatively well known. The article investigates two main questions. Firstly, why have so many memorials for the Reunion been erected – the very first in 1919, by far most in 1920 and the years immediately afterwards and the last one as late as 2010? Has it been an expression of national joy, as it was been claimed the and even later until today, or might there be other explanations? Alternative perspectives are presented, which call into question both the Reunion as a concept and the joy. The memorials are interpreted as an effort to create a community of remembrance. The Reunion was highly disputed and a few of the memorials even express discontent. Thus, the memorials of the Reunion might also be interpreted as expression of a crisis. Secondly, the article looks into the present preservation of what might be called a modern heritage. There is nothing unique in protecting modern remains seen in a global perspective. The memorials had in many cases become "invisible", e.g. neglected or forgotten. Some had been moved and others had disappeared. The protection was also motivated with reference to their unique Danish character, being evidence of local urge and sense of community. Still, I wonder if also the present, just as the age of the Reunion, is a period of crisis in need of an anniversary and acts of protection to divert attention.Added to the article is an appendix with a catalogue of 642 known memorials of the Reunion 1919–2020 presented by the year of erection and/ or inauguration. And the article is illustrated with five figures showings examples of memorials: The memorial column at Skamlingsbanken built in 1863 and blown up in 1864, not being a memorial of the Reunion, but an example of the harsh treatment of memorials in the borderland between Denmark and Germany (fig. 1); the very first memorial of the Reunion built in Tarm in 1919 (fig. 2); a memorial at the location where the king Christian X started his ride over the old border (fig. 3); a memorial erected in 2020 at the church of Rømø (fig. 4); and finally, the Reunion Tower at Ejer Bavnehøj built in 1924 (fig 5).
Publication . Bachelor thesis . 2020
Hvem beskyttede jødernes boliger? : Jødeaktionen i Danmark 1943
Lauland, Peter;
Publisher: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier
Publication . Doctoral thesis . 2020
Opdragelse og diagnosticering : Fra uopdragelighed til psykopati på Vejstrup Pigehjem 1908-1940
Frydendahl Larsen, Bolette;
Publisher: Department of History, Lund university
Between 1908 and 1940, 431 young girls between 16 and 21 years of age were enrolled at Vejstrup Re-education Home for Girls. Through close readings of individual case records and other archival material from Vejstrup Re-education Home, this PhD thesis explores the ways in which the so-called "particularly difficult young girls" were perceived as problematic and how they were handled from 1908 to 1940. The thesis uncovers how the problematisation and handling of the girls changed as psychiatric knowledge was integrated into the field. The thesis is informed by Michel Foucault's perspective on power and knowledge as mutually constitutive and on power as a productive force that transforms human beings into (specific kinds of) subjects. Introducing the concept of motherly caring power, the reform practices at Vejstrup Re-Education Home are analysed as a specific type of disciplinary liberal government directed at the individual's will and emotions. The central technique used to re-educate the young girls was the relationship between the headmistress and each individual girl. The aim of re-education was ultimately to lead the girls to regulate themselves to become 'good girls' and ultimately to strive for becoming servants and wives.The perception of child welfare was that every child could be re-educated, however 4.2% of the children and youth released from Danish residential care between 1905-1940 and 11.4% of the young girls released from Vejstrup Re-Education Home in the same period were released because they had been deemed incorrigible. The expulsions on the grounds of incorrigibility, led to a new problematisation and category that also comprised a new subject: The Incorrigible. During the 1920s, doctors became increasingly involved in assessing the nature of the girls at Vejstrup Re-Education Home, as well as in evaluating how they should be handled. The analysis shows that diagnoses, particularly the diagnosis psychopathy, grew intertwined with the existing category of incorrigibility. The reformulation of incorrigibility to psychopathy and other diagnoses was relevant, because the diagnoses entailed new ways of handling, as well as the anticipation of additional resources. In the 1920s the headmistress attempted to gain ressources for a closed ward at the institution, but did not succeed. In 1930 the subsequent headmistress initiated lobbying for the establishment of a psychopathic institution for girls in 1930. Though she did not succeed, doctors and politicians supported the idea, and a commission was formed to prepare a proposal for the establishment of a psychopathic institution. The thesis uncovers how the problematisation of so-called incorrigible girls as psychopaths emerged at Vejstrup Re-Education Home. Thus the thesis shows how child psychiatry was shaped and practiced within child welfare before the opening of the first Danish child psychiatric clinic in 1935 and before the 1958 establishment of a pedagogic committee in child welfare, incorporating e.g. professional knowledge from psychiatry and psychology.
Review of Linda Qviström, "Rum utan utsikt. Fönster och ljus i medeltida byggnader" (2019)
Between Nordism and Nationalism: The Methods of the Norden Associations' Educational Efforts, 1919–1965
Henrik Åström Elmersjö;
doi: 10.36368/njedh.v7i2.200
Publisher: Umeå University
The Norden Associations (föreningarna Norden) were established in 1919 with the intention of promoting understanding and cooperation between the Nordic countries. The definition of "Norden" was negotiated from the very beginning, and Icelandic and Finnish associations were not established until the 1920s. Promoting understanding and cooperation was very much considered an educational effort, and Norden was imagined within educational efforts sponsored by the associations. In this regard, the associations had predecessors in the Nordic schoolteacher meetings that dated back to the age of Scandinavism in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Norden Associations created special school boards in the 1920s in order to both promote a more Nordic approach in some subjects—mainly language, geography, and history—and to promote cooperation between the countries, with the youth as the catalyst for a more Nordistic future. This article looks into how the Norden Associations imagined a Nordic school, in which a Nordic sentiment was established, and how this imagination related to the reality of the nationalistic school and to ideas of broader international cooperation, between which the "Nordic idea" has always been sandwiched. The article shows how the methods used effectively hindered the imagination of Norden and the "Nordic idea" beyond the scope of cooperation between nations.
Review of Nils Engberg, "Danmarks døde kirker. Middelalderens nedlagte kirker" (2018)
Kirke og kirkestruktur i middelalderens Danmark – opposition til Jakob Kieffer-Olsens disputats
Fakultetsopposition på Jakob Kieffer-Olsens doktorsavhandling "Kirke og kirkestruktur i middelalderens Danmark" (2018)
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Åström Elmersjö, Henrik;
doi: 10.36368/njedh.v7i1.194 , 10.36368/njedh.v8i1.272 , 10.36368/njedh.v6i1.145
Publication . Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine . 2018
Uppåkra : ett maktcentrum i västra Skåne
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Accessibility is one of the factors behind many healthcare technology professionals' inability to receive continued education. After working the whole day – maybe with the addition of a few hours of night duty – it becomes unfeasible for them to take courses. And we haven't mentioned their often unpredictable schedule . Digital learning gives healthcare technology professionals the flexibility to study whenever and wherever they have a decent Internet connection on their devices, whether laptop, smartphone, tablet or what have they.
According to a report commissioned by no less than the World Health Organization, digital learning for healthcare technology professionals can actually be as effective or even more effective than the usual learning environment. This is primarily attributed to the wide array of features with which digital learning systems are equipped, including audios, videos, text, worksheets and of course, discussion boards that students can use to exchange ideas and learn even more. But of course, there will be certain stages of the program where learners will need to attend a typical classroom or laboratory session to gain practical skills and experience.
As most people know, traditional training methods have become incredibly expensive nowadays. From the trainer to learning materials to the training venue itself – all of these come with a cost. These productivity of these healthcare technology professionals suffers too each time they forgo their patient responsibilities to attend a conventional class. Digital learning is automatically cheaper because the costs we mentioned earlier are not applicable. Only the cost of the program will be paid for, plus their device which they presumably own prior to signing up.
A digital learning system comes with a database that healthcare technology professionals can refer to if they have questions or need clarification. They just have to log into the system, go straight to the module related to their issue, and find their answers right there. At the same time, the system may be used as a portal where important news and announcements are provided for the consumption of students. It practically acts like a message board of sort that gives the digital learning system dual purpose.
Some students are visual learners, while others absorb information more through reading or listening. As we have said before, digital learning systems provide a range of options to allow people to choose the learning materials most suitable to them. Digital learners thus learn not only faster but better overall.


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Investment Staff Outlines Final Changes to Target Allocations
During the November meeting of the State Teachers Retirement Board, Investment Department staff presented a review of the Statement of Investment Objectives and Policy and the Statement of Fund Governance. Included in this review was a proposed change to the STRS Ohio Total Fund target allocation. The changes proposed were the final phase of revisions called for during the 2012 asset-liability study. The target allocation weights are shown in the table below:
Asset Class Target Allocation
Liquidity Reserve 1%
Fixed Income 18%
Domestic Equities 31%
International Equities 26%
Real Estate 10%
Alternative 14%
- Private equity 7%
- Opportunistic/Diversified 7%
If approved by the board in December, the final allocation changes are expected to be effective Jan. 1, 2014.
Board Passes Revisions to Administrative Code Rules
At the November Retirement Board meeting, the board approved several proposed amendments to Administrative Code rules to comply with the pension reform changes effective Jan. 1, 2014. Nine of the revisions addressed rules governing the purchase of service credit, which changes the cost calculation to 100% of the liability for most purchase service types. In addition, four of the rules addressed health care eligibility and effective dates. The package of changes will now be sent to the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, a legislative committee, for review. These amendments were filed with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2014.
The Retirement Board approved 545 active members and 132 inactive members for service retirement benefits.
On Nov. 8, notices were sent to all STRS Ohio reporting employers and other interested parties about the upcoming Retirement Board election for two contributing member seats. In addition, election information was in the October newsletters and is posted on the STRS Ohio website. Individuals interested in running for a seat on the State Teachers Retirement Board can request petitions from STRS Ohio. The deadline for returning petitions is Feb. 28, 2014.
CEM Pension Administration Survey Completed; Service Levels Increase, Costs Unchanged
STRS Ohio completed the annual CEM Pension Administration Benchmarking survey this month, with results expected to be published next spring. CEM Benchmarking is a leading global research company that measures the performance of public pension plans and uses comparative analysis among peer groups, allowing STRS Ohio to compare its results against about 70 public retirement systems around the world. Based on reported data, STRS Ohio's service level score is expected to increase to 91 from last year's score of 88. Service level scores increased for pension inceptions, benefit estimates, Annual Statements and satisfaction surveying. The administrative cost per member and annuitant has steadily decreased since 2009; however, the costs stayed the same from 2012 to 2013.
STRS Ohio Staff Teams Up on GASB Communication with Stakeholders
In September, Finance staff gave the Retirement Board an update on new pension reporting rules adopted by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Since that time, staff has been working with the other Ohio retirement systems, as well as system stakeholders, to coordinate common talking points and key messages to help educate employers about the upcoming changes. Sponsoring employers will be required to show a proportionate share of the net pension liability in their financial statements beginning in 2015.
While these rules are new, it's important for the employers to realize that they are paying these liabilities over time through their annual contributions of 14% of member compensation. In addition to communication to employers, STRS Ohio is also developing more detailed information to share with finance professionals. These efforts will continue throughout the next year and into 2015 and beyond.


Yesterday, the Illinois General Assembly voted for marriage equality. Governor Quinn will sign the bill into law. This is the kind of "good news" that shows us our society is moving in the right direction. Of course, there will always be dissenters like my State Representative, Tom Morrison (who defeated me in the 2010 general election). Tom is of the mistaken belief that allowing gay people to marry somehow hurts the marriages of straight people. People like Tom get a lot of publicity because the media love controversy. But as today's vote shows, they're in the majority. Most Americans believe that gay people should have the same rights at other people. That's the real story.


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Holidays Can Be a Fright for Kids With Food Allergies
by Nina Anne Thompson
in Health Tips
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Sept. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Parents of kids with food allergies probably won't be surprised to hear that Halloween is an especially risky time for their youngsters.
A new study found that serious allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) triggered by peanuts jumped 85% when kids were trick or treating. Serious reactions triggered by an unknown tree nut or peanut exposure rose by 70% on Halloween compared to the rest of the year.
And the risk is similar on Easter — when kids are hopping around collecting chocolate eggs and other candy. Compared to other times, anaphylaxis from unknown nut exposure spiked 70% at Easter and there was a 60% increase in peanut-triggered anaphylaxis.
Fortunately, other holidays — including Christmas, Chinese New Year, Diwali and Eid al-Adha — didn't seem to lead to an increase in serious reactions in kids with food allergies.
"The most common cause of anaphylaxis is food. When I was working in the emergency department, I was told [anaphylaxis] was higher on Halloween," said study co-author Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, an associate professor of allergy and immunology at Montreal Children's Hospital and McGill University in Canada. "With this study, we wanted to establish whether there actually was an increased risk of anaphylaxis on holidays compared to the rest of the year."
Anaphylaxis is a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. It's treated with a shot of epinephrine (Epi-Pen, Auvi-Q).
Symptoms of anaphylaxis may include:
Swelling of the lips, tongue or throat,
Difficulty breathing or wheezing,
Dizziness, possibly fainting,
Stomach pain,
Vomiting or diarrhea,
Uneasy feeling.
The researchers reviewed almost 1,400 cases of anaphylaxis in four Canadian provinces between 2011 and 2020. Nearly two-thirds of the kids (median age: 5.4 years) were boys.
Besides uncovering strikingly higher rates of these serious allergic reactions from unknown nuts, peanuts or tree nuts on Halloween and Easter, the study found that anaphylaxis triggered by the same nuts was more likely in kids who were 6 years or older than in younger children.
While Halloween and Easter may look different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ben-Shoshan said parents need to stay extra vigilant on these holidays to make sure their kids with allergies stay safe.
But why just Halloween and Easter?
The researchers can't know for sure from the study data, but these tend to be holidays where children are given candy. And, in the case of Halloween, it often comes from people who don't know them (or about their allergies) at all.
"Vigilance is important. Have the epinephrine pen nearby and supervise your child. The risk was higher in kids 6 years and above — don't think that an 8-year-old will always be responsible. Be aware that anaphylaxis can happen," Ben-Shoshan said.
While the study was done in Canada, he said the findings probably also apply in other countries that celebrate Halloween and Easter, including the United States.
Dr. Maryann Buetti-Sgouros, head of pediatrics at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y., said they mirror what she sees in practice.
On Halloween and Easter, she said, "People give children candy that is purchased and they might not be as aware of the potential for cross-contamination. You're less likely to give away candy on the other holidays they studied."
Plus, on other holidays, food is often prepared by family members who are aware of the allergies, Buetti-Sgouros said.
She suggested asking anyone who brings food to holiday meals to share a list of the ingredients. She said allergens can hide in many foods, and manufacturers sometimes change the way they make a food. That means parents have to check labels every time they buy a food.
That makes Halloween a particular challenge, she said. The snack-size treats often lack allergy information.
"Be alert for any signs of food allergy," Buetti-Sgouros said. "The symptoms could be very subtle, like an itchy lip or a tickle in the throat. Sudden vomiting should be considered a sign of food allergy. There should always be an epinephrine pen nearby."
Both experts mentioned that on Halloween kids with food allergies can look for homes with teal-colored pumpkins on their doorstep. This signifies a household that will have safe treats for kids with food allergies.
The findings were published Sept. 21 in CMAJ.
WebMD News from HealthDay
SOURCES: Moshe Ben-Shoshan, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Quebec, Canada; Maryann Buetti-Sgouros, M.D., chairperson, pediatrics, Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N.Y.;CMAJ, Sept. 21, 2020
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Workers Install Tanks for Electric City Aquarium
By STACY LANGE
SCRANTON, PA — Some big fish are moving into Scranton soon and their new homes arrived on Wednesday.
Newswatch 16 was at The Marketplace at Steamtown as crews began moving in six tanks for the new Electric City Aquarium.
The Electric City Aquarium and Reptile Den will be inside what used to be an Express clothing store.
Moving tanks the size of swimming pools that will house sharks and stingrays into a place like a mall is a logistical challenge.
The future home for a family of stingrays made its way through the front entrance of The Marketplace at Steamtown, past the traditional stores and the holiday decorations you'd expect to see in a mall this time of year. It's all for something you wouldn't expect to find in a mall.
Six tanks brought in on Wednesday will be home to some of the aquarium's animals.
"It's pretty cool," said Lisa Vought at Hair Palace. "I'm trying to figure out how they're going to fit it in."
The process drew an audience and took most of the day.
The Marketplace at Steamtown is using some of its empty storefronts to hold the tanks for now. Two tanks will eventually hold sharks.
Some of the marketplace's longest running tenants, like Hair Palace, say the unusual addition may be just what they need.
"We've been waiting and waiting and waiting," said Lucille Goodwin. "Everybody's talking about the aquarium and now it looks like this is it, this is the beginning, this is the hope that everybody's waiting for."
"Malls are dying because of the internet, all that other stuff, so, I think this is a great thing. I'm excited, really happy to see this happening finally," said Shirley Owens.
The owners say bringing in the tanks is the first major step in construction. They hope to have everything finished in five months.
"Typically an aquarium of this size, and what it has, doesn't usually fit in a mall. However, it will in downtown Scranton. We're very excited, the people have been waiting for this for months, we kind of promised it this year. It will be spring 2018 delivered, and sealed, and open for the public," said Ben Lorenzetti.
Part of the construction will require a few dozen steel reinforcement beams to go in to support the weight of the aquarium tanks.