tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81969292024-03-05T02:53:31.224-05:00eXtra.puLp [news]Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-50042877337284222682015-03-01T15:25:00.001-05:002015-03-01T15:25:48.330-05:00ARTICLE: The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape | Books | The Guardian<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape">The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape | Books | The Guardian</a><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">Excerpt: In the seven years after first reading the “Peat Glossary”, I sought out the users, keepers and makers of place words. In the Norfolk Fens – introduced by the photographer Justin Partyka – I met Eric Wortley, a 98-year-old farmer who had worked his family farm throughout his long life, who had been twice to the East Anglian coast, once to Norwich and never to London, and whose speech was thick with Fenland dialect terms. I came to know the cartographer, artist and writer Tim Robinson, who has spent 40 years documenting the terrain of the west of Ireland: a region where, as he puts it, “the landscape … speaks Irish”. Robinson’s belief in the importance of “the language we breathe” as part of “our frontage onto the natural world” has been inspiring to me, as has his commitment to recording subtleties of usage and history in Irish place names, before they are lost forever: </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">Scrios Buaile na bhFeadog</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">, “the open tract of the pasture of the lapwings”; </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">Eiscir</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Guardian Text Egyptian Web', Georgia, serif; line-height: 24px;">, “a ridge of glacial deposits marking the course of a river that flowed under the ice of the last glaciation”.</span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-38455413412271417202015-02-25T07:03:00.000-05:002015-02-25T07:03:01.403-05:00PHOTOS: Kavan the KidLove this guy's creations -<br />
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We just saw her work while in NYC! 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<div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/images/data/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/027/27874-1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.publishersweekly.com/images/data/ARTICLE_PHOTO/photo/000/027/27874-1.JPG" /></a>Author Zilpha Keatley Snyder, who received three Newbery Honors for her middle-grade novels, including<em> The Egypt Game</em>, has died of complications from a stroke, in San Francisco. She was 87.</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">Snyder was born in Lemoore, Calif., in 1927. In an autobiography for <em>Contemporary Authors</em>, she recalls some of her earliest memories as being of “animals, and games, and books,” noting that “I seemed to have been born reading.” She praised her father, a rancher/oil driller, and her mother, a teacher, as wonderful storytellers and credited them as a source for her storytelling instincts. And those influences came together for Snyder early on in childhood. “At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer,” she said, fondly remembering her attempts at poems and short stories, as well as the fourth-grade teacher who collected all her works into a typed book.</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">Snyder continued her education and kept alive her passion for writing through high school. She earned a B.A. from Whittier College in southern California, where she met her future husband, fellow student and music major Larry Snyder. Upon graduation in 1948, Snyder began teaching school – a job she had intended as temporary while she sorted out the issues of following her dream of becoming a writer. The couple married in 1950 and moved to several states, as Larry pursued graduate music studies and served in the military during the Korean War.</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">By the early 1960s back in California, Snyder’s two children (a foster son would join the family a few years later) were in school and she found the time to begin writing in earnest. She carved out hours for writing while working around her teaching joband said in her autobiography that her time with her students “had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.” “It is, I think, a magical time – when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.”</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">Snyder sent her first story, about one of her favorite topics – horses – to Atheneum and received an encouraging rejection letter from editor Jean Karl. After significant revisions, Karl published the book as <em>Season of Ponies</em> in 1964. Snyder soon gave up teaching to focus on writing fulltime, publishing nearly a book a year. Her body of work grew to include contemporary middle-grade novels as well as some poetry, YA, science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction. One of her best known titles, <em>The Egypt Game</em>, features children who transform a vacant lot into ancient Egypt, the landscape for their imaginary games.</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">California was the backdrop for several of Snyder’s historical novels and she incorporated elements of her childhood memories of the Great Depression in <em>Cat Running</em>, about a girl who befriends a family who lost their home in the Dust Bowl. And Snyder’s father’s stories about his childhood in a Nebraska orphanage sparked Snyder’s novels <em>Gib Rides Home</em> and <em>Gib and the Gray Ghost</em>. Snyder went on to publish more than 40 books in total; her most recent title was <em>William’s Midsummer Dreams</em> (Atheneum, 2011).</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">Snyder’s agent, George Nicholson, remembers his friend and client: “I saw Zil in two ways, both as a dedicated author writing as a Westerner and Californian particularly, and as a woman whose personal strength of character gleamed in her novels allowing a kind of tough resonance to shine unlike many of her peers. She was also a dedicated traveler (the only client of mine who ever went to Dubai) with a cultivated curiosity and fearlessness. Her companion and husband Larry is equally unique, a musician and translator. Their gallivanting (as she once said to me) satisfied to a great extent her wish to bring the world into her life.</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">“Some years ago I gave a party for them at my house in Chelsea when a troop of burly firemen and the police arrived at the same time as the guests. A smoking fireplace and a street battle were occurring simultaneously and she was mightily amused and pleased that her visit to New York had a touch of the raucous of the old West. Recently many of her out-of print-novels have been brought back by Open Road in electronic editions as well as a half-dozen new editions of her classic titles from Atheneum. That all her work was in print in some form at her death was a source of immense pride and pleasure. I will miss her and her new work as a woman of patrician sensibility and the proud daughter of a cowboy in a world now gone.”</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">Karen Wojtyla, v-p and editorial director at Margaret K. McElderry Books, and Snyder’s longtime editor, offered this remembrance: “I worked with Zilpha Snyder – Zil to friends – for many years, first at Delacorte Press and then here at Atheneum, where she began her career. I loved working with Zil – she had such a natural talent for character and voice. Her characters flew off the page and were as real as anything. She did hate commas, though. She once told me that she never knew where to put them, so she’d just sprinkle them over the page. She was fiercely protective of her own style and the naturalism of her voice – woe to the copyeditor who tried to ‘correct’ an ‘incomplete’ sentence. That, Zil would say, is the way people think, and talk. One of the proudest moments of my publishing career came from Zil. In 2004 she dedicated her novel <em>The Unseen</em> to me and Jean Karl, with these words: ‘To two wonderful editors whose dedication, integrity and artistry made all the difference. To Karen Wojtyla. And in memoriam to Jean Karl.’ ”</div><div class="article" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; padding-right: 10px;">Wojtyla also shared an anecdote, one, she explains, that Snyder told to Karl in 1964, which was preserved in a speech that Karl later presented. “On October 7, 1964, Zil wrote, “I have an anecdote about Dougie (my eight-year-old) and <em>Black and Blue Magic</em>. He more or less ordered the book as he was ‘tired of sad stories about girls and wanted a funny one about a boy.’ Recently I read him the first 11 chapters. I could see that he was entranced because (like Harry) his mouth hangs open. When I finished he didn’t say a word. He jumped up on his chair, stuck his arms out behind him, leaped off, and flapped out of the room. For a few minutes I heard him running through the house, apparently making occasional leaps from furniture (forbidden). Then he flew back into the room looking delighted, threw his arms around my neck and said, ‘That’s great, Mom. I’ll bet it wins the Blueberry Award!’ ”</div><br /><br />
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<li class="hasDeal cboxElement" itemprop="ingredient" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/RecipeIngredient" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="amount">1 1/2 cups</span> <span itemprop="name">sugar</span> </li>
<li class="hasDeal cboxElement" itemprop="ingredient" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/RecipeIngredient" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="amount">1 cup</span> <span itemprop="name">butter, softened</span> </li>
<li class="hasDeal cboxElement" itemprop="ingredient" itemscope="" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/RecipeIngredient" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><span itemprop="amount">3 </span><span itemprop="name">large eggs</span> </li>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-30324731308572612162013-12-29T11:13:00.001-05:002014-12-23T12:16:49.547-05:00Thought for the Day<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font size="2">"It's important to have a good vocabulary. If I had known the difference between the words <span style="font-style: italic;">antidote</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">anecdote</span>, one of my good friends would still be living." - <span style="font-style: italic;">John McDowell</span></font><br></div></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-57780400659452397942013-12-16T07:45:00.001-05:002013-12-16T07:47:23.737-05:00Boy Botanist 8/27/32 | The Saturday Evening PostI love images like this - full of rich color and a story. By the great Eugene Iverd.<br />
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In 2008, I collected a bag full of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidambar_styraciflua">gumballs from two massive giant sweet gums</a> across the street (which unfortunately have since been felled). I put them in the garage. And forgot about them.</div>
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Unearthed the bag a few weeks ago and got started. Picked up a Styrofoam cone, glitter, spray adhesive and glue sticks for the hot glue gun at <a href="http://www.joann.com/">Joann Fabrics</a> then had to stop in at <a href="http://www.kbtruevalue.com/">True Value</a> for some silver metallic spray paint.</div>
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I sprayed the cone down with the silver paint. Then I snipped away the stems on the pods and started gluing away. Mid-way, it was clear I didn't have enough pods and the gumballs I found on the ground in the area were soggy and in pretty rough shape. So, I turned to the internet and snapped up a box of dry and craft-ready gumballs off eBay for a reasonable price and free shipping. </div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">They came quickly - and it was onward to the top! [The slight difference in gumball color because of the break calls to mind the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/wamo/faqs.htm">Washington Monument stone color change</a>.]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Then two coats of silver overall and atop that the spray adhesive and glitter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">And it takes me back many Christmases every-time it catches my eye.</span></div>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-63998016709390232102013-10-19T07:13:00.001-05:002013-10-19T07:13:00.354-05:00Recipe: Tomato Basil Gastrique<p dir=ltr>1 cup granulated sugar<br>
3/4 cup cider vinegar<br>
1/4 cup bourbon</p>
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1 cup chopped basil<br>
1/4 to 1/2 tsp chili powder</p>
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Stir in vinegar and bourbon<br>
Bring to boil then let simmer to reduce slightly<br>
Add tomatoes, basil and chili powder<br>
Continue to simmer until desired consistency is reached (about 15 - 20 minutes)</p>
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<i>Visit the first family-owned distillery in Loudoun County since before Prohibition. See this working distillery in production, including a 400 liter custom-made Kothe still and condenser. Tours will highlight the process of making distilled spirits, including fermentation, distillation, aging and bottling.</i></div>
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<i>Often, depending on the day, you may see much of this equipment in operation and meet and speak with the owners.</i></div>
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<tr style="text-align: left;"><td style="text-align: center;"><b>Monday thru Friday</b></td><td style="text-align: center;"><b>10 - 5 PM</b><b><br /></b></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><b>Saturday</b></td><td style="text-align: center;"><b>12 - 7 PM</b></td></tr>
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<i>Tours start at the top of every hour and last about half an hour and cost $5 per person, kids are free. </i></div>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-12348151447934957052012-10-06T08:23:00.000-05:002012-10-06T08:23:22.007-05:00Recipe: Autumn Root Vegetable Chili<br />
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<b style="color: black;">1.</b> Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic; cook 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.</div>
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<b style="color: black;">2.</b> Add squash, parsnips, turnips and carrots. Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add green pepper, tomatoes, chili powder, oregano and cumin. Simmer on medium heat, partially covered, for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add beans and heat through. Stir in cilantro.</div>
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<b style="color: black;">3.</b> Sprinkle each portion with some of the scallions and place lime wedges on the side.</div>
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<span class="heading4">nutrition facts</span><ul class="nutrition" id="factslist" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-65300359366992617562012-09-30T13:46:00.001-05:002012-09-30T13:51:33.633-05:00Cocktail of the Week<div>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-23394054623984913782012-07-07T15:00:00.001-05:002012-07-07T15:00:42.488-05:00Recipe: Korean Short Ribs<br />
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<span class="type" style="display: block; float: left; width: 150px;">Makes: <span class="time" style="color: black;">6 servings</span></span><br />
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<span class="type" style="display: block; float: left; width: 150px;">Prep:<span class="time" style="color: black;"> 10 mins </span></span><span class="type" style="display: block; float: left; width: 150px;">Cook:<span class="time" style="color: black;"> 2 mins </span></span><span class="type" style="display: block; float: left; width: 150px;">Slow Cook:<span class="time" style="color: black;"> 6 hrs on HIGH or LOW for 9 hours</span></span></div>
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<strong style="color: #3a200f;">1.</strong> Combine soy sauce, sugar, oil, vinegar, ginger, garlic and red pepper in a bowl.</div>
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<strong style="color: #3a200f;">2.</strong> Place ribs in a 5-quart slow cooker; add sauce. Cover and cook on HIGH for 6 hours or LOW for 9 hours, until meat is tender.</div>
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<strong style="color: #3a200f;">3.</strong> Transfer ribs to a platter. Skim and discard excess fat from liquid. Combine cornstarch and 3 tablespoons water; blend with liquid in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat and cook for 2 minutes, stirring, until thickened. Stir in carrots. Top ribs with sauce, scallions and sesame seeds. Serve with cooked rice.</div>
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</div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-16961667636102404072011-12-31T11:01:00.002-05:002011-12-31T11:01:59.037-05:00Recipe: Crockpot Mac and Cheese<strong>Ingredients:</strong><ul>
<li class="ingredient">1 (10-ounce) container refrigerated Alfredo sauce</li>
<li class="ingredient">12 ounce can evaporated milk</li>
<li class="ingredient">1-1/3 cups whole milk</li>
<li class="ingredient">1 egg</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 tablespoons Dijon mustard</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 pound macaroni pasta</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese</li>
<li class="ingredient">2 cups shredded American cheese</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese</li>
<li class="ingredient">3 tablespoons butter, melted</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/8 teaspoon white pepper</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 teaspoon onion powder</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/8 teaspoon garlic powder</li>
<li class="ingredient">1/2 teaspoon salt</li>
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Spray the inside of the slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. In a large bowl, beat Alfredo sauce with the fresh and evaporated milks, egg, and mustard. Stir in UNCOOKED macaroni and all of the shredded cheeses, butter, pepper, onion and garlic powders, and salt; mix well. Pour into 4 quart crockpot. Cover and cook on low for 3 to 4 hours; test to make sure macaroni is cooked. Do NOT stir or remove the lid while this dish is cooking. Serves 4-6.<br />
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Source (via Gina): <a href="http://busycooks.about.com/od/meatlessentreerecipes/r/crpmacaronichee.htm">http://busycooks.about.com/od/meatlessentreerecipes/r/crpmacaronichee.htm</a></div>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09022235148153059676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8196929.post-81811852732935596372011-10-26T18:46:00.001-05:002011-12-31T11:03:43.264-05:00Gin!<a href="spirits: New-generation gins : null">Spirits: New-generation gins : null</a><br />
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Today, I was reading an article in DETAILS which featured some of the galleries & artists to see during the current Art Basel Miami. This piece, 'donation box 2010' by Mexico's Gabriel Kuri caught my eye:<br />
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Decided to take some chickpeas and the leftover pumpkin and whip up a hummus of sorts - no too bad!</P> <H3 id=rI>Ingredients:</H3> <UL> <LI class=ingredient>1 16 oz can of chickpeas or garbanzo beans</LI> <LI class=ingredient>1/4 cup canned pumpkin</LI> <LI class=ingredient>1/4 cup liquid from can of chickpeas (I only added what I needed of this to smooth the hummus out)</LI> <LI class=ingredient>3-5 tablespoons lemon juice (depending on taste)</LI> <LI class=ingredient>2 cloves garlic, crushed (I went for 3 cloves... kiss me!)</LI> <LI class=ingredient>1/2 teaspoon salt</LI> <LI class=ingredient>2 tablespoons olive oil</LI> <LI class=ingredient>Also sprinkled in some red pepper flake and a little bit of nutmeg</LI></UL> <H3 id=rP>Preparation:</H3> <DIV class=instructions>Drain chickpeas and set aside liquid from can. Combine remaining ingredients in blender or food processor. Add 1/4 cup of liquid from chickpeas. 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