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This week, Tidbits studies up on some unusual names for some pretty common foods. You might find this info helpful the next time you’re dining out! • Folks down South are familiar with hush puppies, which are spoonsful of cornbread batter cooked in hot fat. Legend has it that they were used by hunters and fishermen who would toss the little morsels to their dogs to keep them quiet. Others say that Confederate soldiers in the Civil War fed them to their dogs on the battlefield to “hush the puppies.” • Other Southern dishes include burgoo (a thick stew of several types of meat and veggies), chitterlings (the deep-fried small intestine of pigs), and Hoppin’ John (a stew of black-eyed peas, salt pork, and seasonings). Hoppin’ John’s relative is Limpin’ Susan, which substitutes okra for the peas. If you order dirty rice down South, your rice will be mixed with ground chicken livers and bacon drippings, onions, and green peppers.
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• Often mispronounced as “kwin-o-ah,” the correct way of saying quinoa is “keen-wah.” It’s the seed from a broad-leafed plant related to beets and spinach. Quinoa has more protein than any other grain, and is rich in iron, magnesium, phosphorus, and zinc, as well as a good source of fiber. Most folks prepare it like they would rice.
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• Ordinary pasta has dozens of different names to describe the variety of shapes and sizes of noodles. Vermicelli actually translates “little worms” from the Italian language, while mostaccioli means “mustaches.” Rotelle is the word for “wheels,” and linguine translates “little tongues.” We all love spaghetti, but did you know it literally means “strings”? Many recipes call for pasta cooked al dente, but what exactly does that mean? The phrase means “to the tooth,” meaning the pasta will offer a little resistance when bitten, still a little firm after being cooked.
NUGGET OF KNOWLEDGE It’s not unusual for Southern families to dine on Turducken during the holidays. Supposedly invented by Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme, this unusual dish features a chicken stuffed inside of a duck stuffed inside of a turkey. All the bones are removed first, so that all this poultry is sliced like a loaf.
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• Antipasto isn’t pasta, but is served “before the pasta,” and is a plate of appetizers, including sliced meats and cheeses, along with olives. Don’t confuse antipasto with pesto, which is a green sauce prepared from fresh basil, olive oil, garlic, pine nuts, and parmesan cheese. • What do you get when you order filet mignon? The name translates from the French, with filet meaning “thick slice” and mignon translating “dainty.” It’s a piece of beef coming from the small end of the tenderloin, found on the back rib cage of the animal. Because this area is not weight-bearing, the tissue is not toughened by exercise, giving the filet its tenderness. Similarly, beef tournedos are filets cut from the beef tenderloin and often cooked with bacon or lard. • Julius Caesar had nothing to do with the Caesar salad. It was first created by an Italian restaurant owner named Caesar Cardini in 1924 at his Tijuana, Mexico, restaurant. His version of romaine lettuce, garlic, oil, Parmesan cheese, Worcestershire sauce, and a coddled egg became popular with Hollywood celebrities when he opened a restaurant there, one that still operates today, over 60 years after his death. • Don’t confuse sauerbraten with sauerkraut. The former is a low-cooked beef stew, while the latter is spicy, fermented shredded cabbage. And don’t think that head cheese is any kind of cheese at all. It’s a gelatinous cold cut made from chopped-up bits of the head of a pig or cow, set in aspic. This unusual meat jelly often includes the tongue and sometimes the feet and heart of the animal. See the next page for more!
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• Several desserts have unusual names including Brown Betty, which is a fruit dessert with a breadcrumb topping, served with whipped cream. The first printed recipe for Brown Betty appeared in 1864. Although Baked Alaska is named for our 49th state, it actually originated in France. It’s made from ice cream and sponge cake, topped with meringue. The dessert is then placed in a very hot oven just long enough to firm up the meringue, which acts as an insulator and keeps the ice cream from melting. In 1876, the head chef at New York City’s Delmonico’s Restaurant named the dessert Baked Alaska in honor of the recently-acquired Alaskan territory.
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• An unusual name for something so simple! Potlikker is the liquid left over after cooking green leafy vegetables, such as collard greens or turnip greens. Usually the greens are cooked with ham hocks or bacon fat. • How about a little scrapple? Introduced by the Germans in Pennsylvania in the late 17th century, it’s a mixture of pork scraps, corn meal, flour, and spices that is shaped into a loaf, sliced, and fried. Fans of this unusual food serve it for breakfast topped with ketchup or maple syrup. • What about all the sauces we order on our dinners? When you order your steak smothered with béarnaise sauce, it will come with a creamy sauce of egg yolks, butter, shallots, vinegar, wine, and tarragon. Eggs Benedict comes covered with Hollandaise sauce, an emulsion of eggs yolks, butter, and lemon juice. Your fish dinner might be served with remoulade sauce, similar to tartar sauce, a mayonnaise mixed with pickles, horseradish, anchovies, and capers, flavored with curry.
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• While in New York City, you might want to try an egg cream, which ironically, contains neither eggs nor cream. It’s a fountain drink made from milk, seltzer, and chocolate syrup, a concoction dreamed up by Brooklyn candy store owner Louis Auster in the late 1800s.
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• Ordering bangers and mash while in Great Britain will get you a dish of pork sausage and mashed potatoes, while bubble and squeak will be a mixture of mashed potatoes, and boiled cabbage, fried until brown. Yorkshire pudding might sound like dessert, but it’s really a batter of eggs, flour, and milk baked in meat drippings until puffy. If you order “toad in the hole,” your Yorkshire pudding will contain bits of sausage.
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by Samantha Weaver • It was noted 18th-century German scientist, philosopher and satirist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg who made the following sage observation: “It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.” • Sometimes looking at local ordinances can make you wonder what inspired lawmakers to pass such laws. For instance, in Florida it’s illegal to wear nothing but liquid latex while in a public place. • The lyrics to that favorite Irish ballad “O Danny Boy” were actually written by an Englishman. • Famed comedic actor Charlie Chaplin was born in England, but at the age of 19 he came to the United States as a performer with the prestigious Fred Karno company. Interestingly, Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame, emigrated to the U.S. at the same time, as part of the same company -- as Chaplin’s understudy. • In a recent survey of pet owners, nearly half of all respondents said that the best description of their relationship with their pet would be “soul mate.” • Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, also is an autonomous region of Italy. If you ever decide to vacation there, keep an eye out for “casu marzu,” a cheese that’s produced locally. Whether you’re keeping an eye out in order to sample it or avoid it depends on whether or not you have an appetite for adventurous eating. The makers of “casu marzu” deliberately introduce into the process the larvae of a particular cheese fly. Though the cheese is sometimes cleaned out before it’s served, it’s often presented in its original state, wriggling maggots and all. *** Thought for the Day: “There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.” -- Lawrence Lessig (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On Aug. 28, 1877, Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder (with Henry Royce) of the RollsRoyce automobile company, is born in London. In 1900, Rolls reportedly was responsible for changing the national speed limit from 4 mph to 12 mph. • On Aug. 30, 1918, in Belfort, France, Colonel Arthur L. Conger plants a false operational order for an impending Allied attack in the wastebasket of a hotel where a German agent was on staff. As intended, the order was found and the Germans chose to withdraw from the area. • On Aug. 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. There were only two stationary camera angles: down the third base line, and above home plate. • On Aug. 29, 1949, in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb. To measure the effects of the blast, the Soviets constructed buildings and bridges, and placed animals in cages nearby. The atomic explosion destroyed those structures and incinerated the animals. • On Aug. 24, 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman ever to compete in Formula One racing, drives a Maserati in the Portuguese Grand Prix. Her racing career began after two of her brothers made a bet that she couldn’t drive fast. • On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, age 32, manager of the Beatles, is found dead of a drug overdose in his Sussex, England, home. • On Aug. 25, 1984, Truman Capote, author of the pioneering true-crime novel “In Cold Blood”, dies at age 59 in Los Angeles. After reading about murders of a farm family, Capote traveled to Kansas to do research with his childhood friend, Harper Lee, who later wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird.” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
• Lewis Urry graduated from the University of Toronto in 1950 with a degree in chemical engineering and went to work for Eveready shortly afterward. We have this creative engineer to thank for the invention of both the alkaline battery and the lithium battery, which he developed while working at Eveready. • We might not call our money “greenbacks” were it not for Thomas Sterry Hunt, a chemist and mineralogist who came up with the idea of using chromium as the base for a green ink to print bank notes. His formula was a substance that could not be removed by acid or alkali without destroying the paper. Although he patented his invention, he did not receive much monetary reward from it. • Toronto-born Alfred Gross invented several communications devices, including the first modern walkie-talkie. While aboard a cruise boat on Lake Erie in 1927 at age nine, Gross met the radio operator and was allowed to listen to the boat’s transmissions. A life-long fascination with wireless telegraphy was the result, leading to his creation of the walkie-talkie during World War II. In the following years, he patented a Citizens’ Band radio telephone pager, and cordless telephone. Unfortunately, before he could market them successfully, his patents expired, and he failed to make money from his inventions. • Another war-time invention came from Newfoundland native Cluny MacPherson. As a medical doctor and principal medical officer for the First Newfoundland Regiment of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade during World War I, MacPherson devised a method of protection against poisonous gas, the world’s first effective gas mask. He fashioned it from a German helmet seized from a captured prisoner, adding a canvas hood with transparent eyepieces. He treated it with chlorine-absorbing chemicals to counter the chlorine found in the gas.
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PLUTO DEMOTED DAY August 24 has been observed as Pluto Demoted Day since 2006. Why did this happen? Follow along and learn about the discovery of what was once considered a planet in our solar system. • From 1930 until 2006, Pluto was classified as the ninth planet in our solar system, joining Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. A 23-year-old astronomer from Kansas, Clyde Tombaugh, was a researcher at Flagstaff, Arizona’s Lowell Observatory in 1930, when he discovered the celestial body that would be named Pluto. An eleven-yearold schoolgirl from Oxford, England, proposed the name of Pluto, after the Greek god of the underworld, with her suggestion beating out scores of other submissions. • Pluto consists of one-third water and twothirds rock. It’s only about 1,600 miles (2,575 km) in diameter, smaller than the Earth’s moon, only 66% of the moon’s diameter and one-sixth of its mass. Pluto’s surface temperature is -380 degrees F (-229 C). • Pluto is part of the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system beyond the planets, similar to an asteroid belt. After the discovery of Pluto in 1930, astronomers began to speculate about the existence of more such bodies in the region. In 1992, the second object in the area was found. More than 1,000 more objects have been discovered so far, and an estimated 100,000 more are believed to exist. • In order to be classified as a planet, a celestial body must meet three conditions: It “must be in orbit around a star, while not being itself a star, be massive enough for its own gravity to pull it into a nearly spherical shape, and must have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.” Continued on the next page!
Read Tidbits® Online! www.bismarcktidbits.com EDITOR’S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of August 24, 2015. PICKS OF THE WEEK Aloha (PG-13) -- Defense contractor Brian (Bradley Cooper) has to close an important deal, face his past mistakes, fall in love, reconcile with his ex-wife, learn about Hawaiian culture and stand up to the military-industrial complex in this jumbled joyfest from Cameron Crowe (“Jerry MaGuire,” “Almost Famous”). While on business in Hawaii -- his former home -Brian is paired up with a perky Air Force liaison (Emma Stone). They are soon in love, but there are a bunch more subplots in the way, including ones with Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, Rachel McAdams and John Krasinski. It’s always a wonderful sign when a famous director publicly apologizes to a star for casting her in his movie. The film already had a pall over it on its premiere, since leaked Sony emails showed the studio was none too pleased with
early looks at the movie. Where Hope Grows (PG-13) -- Calvin (Kristoffer Polaha) had his chance in the majors, then choked under pressure and left the league in disgrace. Now he’s a washed-up alcoholic whose boozy antics have wrecked every relationship in his life, and his daughter (McKaley Miller) has taken the brunt of it. On his way to rock bottom, Calvin finds friendship with a grocery store worker nicknamed Produce (David DeSanctis, a young man with Down Syndrome in his first acting role), whose endearing positivity is the opposite of Calvin’s wallowing. Polaha and DeSanctis develop a real screen chemistry, never seeming wooden or forced. While the movie has this interesting dynamic, the trajectory of Calvin’s soul is made clear pretty early on when it’s shown that Produce is a devout churchgoer and carries a Bible with him everywhere he goes. Two Days, One Night (PG-13) -- After taking a medical leave from her job manufacturing solar panels, Sandra (Marion Cotillard) returns to find that her job is up for a vote: her co-workers must decide whether Sandra is let go or if they keep their 1,000 euro annual bonus. Actually, they already decided to let Sandra go, but she
pleads for a re-do, giving her one weekend to convince enough co-workers to change their vote. Cotillard brings an amazing performance that has already stirred up awards both abroad and in the U.S. Citizenfour (R) -- This film is the most upclose look we have at Edward Snowden, one of the most wanted and influential people of our day. A government contractor and computer-security specialist, Snowden leaked a mountain of classified information that continues to reverberate through the global stage. Back in 2013, documentary filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winner Laura Poitras started receiving anonymous messages hinting at huge revelations related to government surveillance. Later, Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald started meeting with the enigmatic source. This rare and engaging glimpse at a polarizing and still-relevant figure is worth checking out. TV RELEASES “Gene Autry Collection 11” “British Noir: Five Film Collection” “In Search of Doc Holliday” “Teatro alla Scala - The Golden Years, Vol. 1” “Vampire Hunter D” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• “Clearing the neighborhood” refers to a planet’s ability to remove smaller bodies near its orbit by “collision, capture, or gravitational disturbance.” It is this condition that qualified Pluto, because it has other objects in its orbit, as well as moving into the orbit of Neptune during its 246-year revolution around the Sun. • Now and then, Pluto’s orbit actually takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune’s, although Pluto is farther away from the Sun.
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1. 15 years 2. Actor Tim Curry 3. Georgia 4. Spiral 5. “I think, therefore I am” 6. The Shop Around the Corner 7. Flourish and Blotts 8. Vasco da Gama 9. Napoleonic Wars 10. 0.2 Sports Quiz Answers 1. Steve Balboni, in 1981. 2. Gene Tenace (1972), Jim Mason (1976) and Doug DeCinces (1979). 3. Tim Tebow and Chris Leak, with 35 wins each. 4. Scott Williams of the Chicago Bulls, 199193. 5. It was the 1983-84 season. 6. It was a silver medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Japan. 7. Lydia Ko and Annika Sorenstam, with 29 rounds each. Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. “I Want to Know What Love Is,” 1984. The 12-inch record version ran for over 6 minutes. 2. Steely Dan, in 1974. It’s believed that the song was penned about writer Rikki Ducornet. 3. Vangelis. He also composed the music for “Chariots of Fire.” 4. Chad and Jeremy, in the 1960s. 5. “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” by the Beatles in 1967. Despite the rumors about the title’s initials (LSD), the song wasn’t about drugs. John Lennon’s young son, Julian, did a drawing of a nursery-school classmate, Lucy, and called it “Lucy -- in the sky with diamonds.”
• In August of 2006, members of the International Astronomical Union gathered together in Prague to determine the status of Pluto. It was voted to demote Pluto to a dwarf planet, joining four others recognized by the IAU – Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Pluto is the second most massive of its kind, behind Eris, the largest. At one time, Ceres had been classified as the eighth planet when first discovered in 1801 between Mars and Jupiter. It remained in that category for about 50 years, until astronomers began to discover more and more similar bodies in the same area, and reclassified Ceres as an asteroid.
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