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• 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.

• If you order fruits de mer while dining out, don’t expect to get a platter of fruit. It’s actually a dish of raw and cooked shellfish, including oysters, shrimp, lobster, crab, mussels, clams, and scallops. It’s served cold on a bed of rice.

• 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.

• 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

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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.

Tidbits® of Ventura County • 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.

• 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, • Thankfully, grasshopper pie doesn’t olive oil, garlic, pine nuts, and parmesan contain any jumping insects, but rather is a cheese. fluffy dessert containing crème de menthe and white crème de cacao liqueurs in a • What do cookie-crumb crust. you get when you • An unusual name for something so order filet simple! Potlikker is the liquid left over after mignon? cooking green leafy vegetables, such as The name collard greens or turnip greens. Usually translates the greens are cooked with ham hocks or from the French, with filet meaning “thick bacon fat. slice” and mignon translating “dainty.” It’s • How about a little scrapple? Introduced by a piece of beef coming from the small the Germans in Pennsylvania in the late end of the tenderloin, found on the back 17th century, it’s a mixture of pork scraps, rib cage of the animal. Because this area corn meal, flour, and spices that is shaped is not weight-bearing, the tissue is not into a loaf, sliced, and fried. Fans of this toughened by exercise, giving the filet unusual food serve it for breakfast topped its tenderness. Similarly, beef tournedos with ketchup or maple syrup. are filets cut from the beef tenderloin and • What about all the sauces we order on often cooked with bacon or lard. our dinners? When you order your steak • Julius Caesar had nothing to do with the smothered Caesar salad. It was first created by an with béarnaise Italian restaurant owner named Caesar sauce, it will Cardini in 1924 at his Tijuana, Mexico, come with a restaurant. His version of romaine creamy sauce lettuce, garlic, oil, Parmesan cheese, of egg yolks, Worcestershire sauce, and a coddled butter, shallots, egg became popular with Hollywood v i n e g a r , celebrities when he opened a restaurant wine, and there, one that still operates today, over tarragon. Eggs Benedict comes covered 60 years after his death. with Hollandaise sauce, an emulsion • Don’t confuse sauerbraten with of eggs yolks, butter, and lemon juice. sauerkraut. The former is a low-cooked Your fish dinner might be served with beef stew, while the latter is spicy, remoulade sauce, similar to tartar fermented shredded cabbage. And don’t sauce, a mayonnaise mixed with pickles, think that head cheese is any kind of horseradish, anchovies, and capers, cheese at all. It’s a gelatinous cold cut flavored with curry. made from chopped-up bits of the head • While in New York City, you might want of a pig or cow, set in aspic. This unusual to try an egg cream, which ironically, meat jelly often includes the tongue and contains neither eggs nor cream. It’s a sometimes the feet and heart of the fountain drink made from milk, seltzer, and animal. chocolate syrup, a concoction dreamed up by Brooklyn candy store owner Louis Auster in the late 1800s.

• 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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TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Keith Roach, M.D. Leg Swelling Linked to Vascular Surgery --DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband had his aorta replaced in 2012 and has trouble with sink-in marks on his legs at the bottom. It doesn’t matter how much I pay for a pair of his socks, or how loose they fit, his legs still get the marks. He is 79 and has no other health problems.

Would you have any idea what could be causing this? His heart doctor thought it was his blood pressure medicine, and at that time, he was taking 10 mg of amlodipine in the morning. He now takes lisinopril for his blood pressure and levothyroxine for his thyroid. -- R.M.M. ANSWER: When you can see the imprint of the socks, it means that there is some swelling (edema) in the loose tissues of the legs. Although leg edema can result from serious problems with the heart, kidneys or liver, or even from blood clots, it is far more likely that it is not any of these serious conditions. After a major vascular surgery, it is common to have a bit of swelling in the legs. In fact, most people nearing their 80s have some degree of swelling, usually from imperfect valves in the veins or lymphatic vessels that don’t work as well as they did 50 years earlier.

Amlodipine (Norvasc) and medicines like it often cause a degree of swelling that is not dangerous. A careful physical exam and a few blood and urine tests are all that’s necessary to be sure that the leg swelling isn’t being caused by a potentially dangerous condition. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 77-year-old male who, in mid-February, was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer. I started chemo in early March. The doctors advised limit-

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ing sugar, so I started reading labels. Sugar is in everything! It is almost impossible to avoid it. It’s even in the supplemental nutrition products that I am encouraged to drink. My question is whether there is a recommended daily allowance of sugar for cancer patients. -- L.V. ANSWER: I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis. It is next to impossible to avoid all sugar, but you don’t need to avoid all sugar. In fact, eating a little sugar may be more important in people with liver disease, since it is the normally functioning liver that’s necessary to make sugar when we need it.

I would recommend sticking around the World Health Organization and American Heart Association guidelines of 25-40 grams of sugar daily. That’s much less than most people take in. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I am in my early 80s and have some chronic kidney disease. I usually have one or two beers a day and one or two glasses of wine every two weeks or so. Is this safe with my kidney disease? -- K.D. ANSWER: I would recommend one rather than two beers on a daily basis, and again no more than one glass of wine. Moderation is the key. Too much alcohol can raise your blood pressure, may interfere with medication and, in excess doses, damage your kidneys. *** Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www. rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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I, MacPherson devised a method of protection without destroying the paper. Although he Sicard’s company is still in existence, a division of SMIagainst poisonous gas, the world’s first effective patented his invention, he did not receive Snowblast of Watertown, New York. gas mask. He fashioned it from a German helmet much monetary reward from it. seized from a captured prisoner, adding a canvas • Two newspapermen brought us one of the greatest board • Toronto-born hood with transparent eyepieces. He treated it games of all time. Photo editor Chris Haney and sports Alfred Gross with chlorine-absorbing chemicals to counter the journalist Scott Abbott were playing Scrabble in 1979 invented several chlorine found in the gas. when they decided to invent their own game. They came communications up with trivia questions in six categories – Geography, devices, including Entertainment, History, Art & Literature, Science & the first modern Nature, and Sports, and called their invention Trivial walkie-talkie.

Pursuit. Their creation has blossomed into a television While aboard a game show, online game, arcade game, and home cruise boat on computer version.

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Tidbits® of Ventura County

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-year-old 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 two-thirds 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.”

• “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. • 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.

• When Eris was discovered in 2005, initial reports called it the tenth planet, setting up a debate in the IAU as to what constitutes a planet. One proposal suggested including Charon, Eris, and Ceres in the official list of planets. The term dwarf planet was suggested, although many astronomers refer to these bodies as planetoids. On August 24, 2006, Pluto was officially demoted when it failed to reach the criteria agreed upon for classification as a planet.

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Remember making lanyard friendship bracelets or tie-dying T-shirts at camp as a kid? Think retro, and get inspired to create a “summer camp”style craft in your own backyard with your family.

I was reminded of a childhood favorite, string art, when I connected with 9-year-old Anna Anderson at a family camp in the Santa Cruz mountains.

Having just moved from Washington to California, she jumped right into a group of kids and adults sitting under a tree tying and looping colorful string around nails that had been pounded in the shape of the Golden State into pieces of scrap lumber.

To personalize her design, Anna added an extra nail to mark her new town south of Los Angeles. It became the focal point for string designs wrapped around nails that formed the California borders.

String-art kits are available online and at hobby and toy stores for this craft that’s all the rage, but you can gather your own supplies. To get started, here are basic materials and directions for doing string art in the shape of your state. Use these instructions as a taking-off point for any design you choose.

Here’s what you’ll need: —3/4-inch-thick wooden board approximately 10 inches by 12 inches (available at hardware or lumber stores. Check for inexpensive pieces in their scrap bin.)

—sandpaper (optional) —standard letter-size paper printout of your state (download from an online map or trace from an atlas)

—1 1/2-inch framing nails —hammer —crochet thread, embroidery floss or thin string in your favorite colors and shades Here’s the fun: 1. Sand rough edges on the board, then center and tape the map on the best side. Hammer nails about halfway into the board following the outline of the state, making sure they are equal in height and about 1/2 inch apart.

Remove paper.

2. Tie the end of colored string around one nail. Begin the design by wrapping it around another nail.

Weave it back and forth from nail to nail in any direction you choose. If you aren’t pleased with how a section looks, unwind and do it again. Knot your final string around a nail, and cut.

3. Display the eye-catching art on a shelf, or add a hook to the back and hang on the wall.

Alternate ideas: —Paint the board before you hammer nails.

—Use foam core or cork and push pins instead of a wooden board and nails. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” © 2015 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

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Despite Microchip, Dog Never Found --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Last year, our beloved Sheltie “Charlene” disappeared. We’ll never know if she ran off, got lost in the woods and injured, or if someone took her. I let her out in the backyard and that was the last we saw of her. Charlene had a microchip installed by her veterinarian, but we had never followed up with registering the chip. So we’ll never know if she was found and her chip scanned.

Please let your readers know that they need to register their pet’s microchip with the manufacturer, and provide a copy of the registration to their vet. And they need to update the information each year or if they move to a new address. Otherwise they lose a vital tool in locating a lost pet. -- Carol in Wisconsin DEAR CAROL: You told them, and I hope they’ll heed your advice!

If you know your pet is chipped but have lost the information, you can still check to see if the chip is registered. The American Animal Hospital Association maintains a database online at www.petmicrochiplookup.org with registrations for most, but not all, microchip manufacturers listed.

If you haven’t yet registered your pet’s microchips, now is a great time to do so. Find the microchip registration information that was provided to you by the vet at the time your dog or cat received its chip. If you lost it, contact the vet’s office to see if they have the manufacturer and date of chipping on file, as well as the microchip number.

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To Be Frank Was to Be a Giant Truly, there can be no professional sports without an announcer. It just doesn’t work any other way.

Think about it ... when you were a kid, playing football or baseball down the street and ruining Mrs. Johnson’s front yard, the voices you heard in your head weren’t the kind that got you put away upstate for awhile ... they were the dulcet tones of the many maestros of the microphone!

To the untrained eye, sure, you were a 16-year-old string bean wearing sweat pants, but when you went up for the Nerf, you were like Lynn Swann, and when you ran unabated into the end-zone, you followed in the well-worn footsteps of Tony Dorsett or Walter Payton. That time you caught a 5-yard curl and proceeded to drag half of the little brothers on the block that you agreed to let play that “one time” 50 yards after the catch for a touchdown like Mark Bavaro? It would have been all for naught had you not been piping in the play-by-play to yourself ala Keith Jackson, Marv Albert, Gil Santos, Bill Grigsby, Hank Stram or Pat Summerall.

That was a different era, to be sure. It was a time when football coaches wore suits and fedoras on the sideline, a time when Michelob used to come in funky bottles emblazoned with gold and red ribbons and was considered a premium beer, a time when you didn’t need a $66 billion search engine in order to figure out what channel the game was on, because there were only three channels. And on Monday night, you can bet that all the Mr. Johnson’s of the world were watching Monday Night Football.

Frank Gifford was a star long before he was the tolerant All-American glamor boy in the booth, the guy who used to break the games down while preventing Howard Cosell from having a break down.

Cosell was the sports announcer who could never be ignored, whose arrogance often transcended his greatness, particularly when he felt he had to do something beneath himself, like announce football with jocks like Don Meredith and Gifford.

But it was Frank who won everyone over. He was a trailblazer -- the first guy to really transition into the booth after his Hall of Fame football career. And for all of Cosell’s bluster, when it came time to break the news to the world that John Lennon had been killed, he froze, and he looked over to the guy seated at his right, the other guy in the gold blazer. The golden boy, Frank Gifford himself. MVP in 1956. Hall of Famer, triple threat.

And he said to the man with all the words, the man who never played the game, that it was just that: a game.

“Got to do it,” Gifford said.

So, what would Cosell say today upon learning of the passing of Francis Newton? They called him “Frank” because quite frankly, he was New York’s first football star. The Yankees had the Babe and the Iron Horse. The Trolley Dodgers of Brooklyn had Jackie Robinson. The Jets had Joe Willie, and the Mets had the “Say Hey Kid.” But for Big Blue, their first shining star was truly a Giant. Frank Gifford, the man who could kick, run and pass, passes from this vale of tears at age 84. He will be missed.

Condolences to Kathy Lee and family.

• On Aug. 28, 1877, Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder (with Henry Royce) of the Rolls-Royce automobile company, is born in London. In 1900, Rolls reportedly was responsible for changing the national speed limit from 4 Here’s an easy way to enjoy the mph to 12 mph. bounty of your garden.

• On Aug. 30, 1918, in Belfort, 7 (large-size) ripe tomatoes France, Colonel Arthur L. Conger 6 tablespoons Kraft fat-free plants a false operational order for mayonnaise an impending Allied attack in the wastebasket of a hotel where a Ger1/4 cup Kraft Fat Free Thousand man agent was on staff. As intended, Island Dressing the order was found and the Germans 1 1/2 cups shredded lettuce chose to withdraw from the area.

3/4 cup Oscar Mayer or Hormel • On Aug. 26, 1939, the first teleReal Bacon Bits vised Major League baseball game 3 slices reduced-calorie white is broadcast between the Cincinnabread, toasted and cut into ti Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at 1/2-inch cubes Ebbets Field. There were only two sta1. Finely chop 1 tomato. Cut tops off tionary camera angles: down the third remaining 6 tomatoes. Split tomatoes base line, and above home plate. into 4 wedges, but do not cut all the • On Aug. 29, 1949, in Kazakhstan, way to bottom. the USSR successfully detonates its 2. In a large bowl, combine mayon- first atomic bomb. To measure the naise and Thousand Island dressing. effects of the blast, the Soviets conStir in lettuce, bacon bits and bread structed buildings and bridges, and cubes. Evenly spoon a full 1/2 cup placed animals in cages nearby. The lettuce mixture into center of each atomic explosion destroyed those structures and incinerated the animals. tomato. Serve at once. Serves 6.

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• On Aug. 27, 1967, Brian Epstein, age 32, manager of the Beatles, is found dead of a drug overdose in his Sussex, England, home.

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Game Changers

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One of the most common faults in many amateur golfers is a sliding hip action with little to no rotation in the backswing.

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