Lifestyles After 50 Sarasota Edition, February 2024

Fun and Full February:

Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day, and Strawberry Fest

February! Winter is fast receding, and the weather is getting beautiful again.

This February is an especially busy one: on Sunday, February 11, get ready to watch the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers at Super Bowl LVIII at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. (If you can’t see the game in person in Nevada, see page 7 for some easy and delicious appetizers to spice up any football watch party.)

On Tuesday, February 13 we celebrate Mardi Gras, the last fling of decadence before Ash Wednesday and the 40-day fast leading up to Easter.

February 14 is the celebration of that holiday honoring love, St. Valentine’s Day. Grab some flowers and chocolates for your special someone and be sure to read the great story about the history of Valentine’s symbols on page 19.

This leap year, the 11th Annual Strawberry Festival begins February

29 and continues through March 10. Besides the great rides, fun games, and great food, be sure to check out the many musical acts gracing the Wish Farms Generations of Sweetness Stage.

The amazing cast of musical headliners during the festival includes Jimmy Sturr and his Orchestra (free with gate admission), the Oak Ridge Boys, Oliver Anthony, Jordan Davis, the Black Eyed Peas, Parker McCollum, the Bellamy Brothers, ZZ Top, Mark Lowry, Zach Williams, Craig Morgan, Riley Green, Bill Haley and the Comets (free with gate admission), Gene Watson, Kirk Franklin, Foreigner, Flo Rida, The Commodores, Jo Dee Messina, Cody Johnson, and the Beach Boys (read all about the award winning Beach Boys on p. 4). For tickets to any of these events and concerts, visit www. FLStrawberryFestival.com.

Until next time, enjoy the many beautiful days ahead in sunny southwest Florida!

Have a great month and we'll see you in March!

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60+ Years of The Beach Boys

BY MICHELE D. BAKER

The Beach Boys, with tens of millions of albums sold, have left an indelible mark on the music industry, influencing many artists that followed. Led by Mike Love, alongside longtime member Bruce Johnston, musical director Brian Eichenberger, Christian Love, Tim Bonhomme, Jon Bolton, Keith Hubacher, Randy Leago and John Wedemeyer, the band has reshaped the musical landscape with their iconic sound.

Consistently active, The Beach Boys perform around 150 concerts annually, and have performed more concerts than any major rock band in history. Their 2013 release “Sounds of Summer,” witnessed a fresh wave of worldwide Beach Boys fervor. The group’s music encapsulates an eternal youthful spirit, making beaches worldwide a symbol of rejuvenation.

Despite achieving milestones like the groundbreaking “Pet Sounds” in 1966, the chart-topping “Kokomo” in 1988, an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and surpassing 100 million in album sales, the band’s passion remains undiminished. Their 50th Anniversary in 2012 saw a reunion tour and a #3 Billboard-charting album, “That’s Why God Made the Radio.” In 2016, they celebrated the 50th anniversary of the masterpiece, “Good Vibrations,” and Mike Love’s memoir, “GOOD VIBRATIONS: My Life as a Beach Boy,” achieved New York Times Best Seller status.

In 2022, the Beach Boys wrapped the international leg of their “Sixty Years of the Sounds of Summer” tour, which visited major venues across Europe and the UK featuring special guests The Temptations and The Four Tops. In 2023, a star-studded CBS tribute special honored their legendary

career. Their unparalleled concert presence includes performances at Live Aid and the Super Bowl.

Since 1961 when Mike Love, co-founder, lead singer, and primary songwriter, penned the lyrics to The Beach Boys’ first hit, “Surfin,’” dozens of the band’s chart toppers have become eternal anthems of American youth: “Surfin’ USA,” “Surfer Girl,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” “California Girls,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “Barbara Ann,” “Good Vibrations,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Rock and Roll Music” and “Kokomo.”

The band also released a compilation album and box set honoring the 50th anniversary of their timeless albums “Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 19691971.” The expansive 5 CD and digital box set chronicles and explores in depth this metamorphic and highly influential 1969-1971 period of the band’s legendary career. It contains 135 tracks, including 108 previously unreleased tracks, live recordings, radio promos, alternate versions, alternate mixes, isolated backing tracks and a cappella versions, culled from the album sessions.

As The Beach Boys mark 60+ years of making music, the group continues to ride the crest of a wave unequalled in America’s musical history and have become synonymous with the California lifestyle and an American icon to fans around the world. Hear The Beach Boys live on March 1 at Strawberry Fest in Plant City. For a complete list of tour dates CD sales information please visit mikelove.com or thebeachboys.com, or visit FLStrawberryFestival.com.

A Brief History of Mardi Gras and the King Cake

By Michele D. Baker

The modern American Mardi Gras season (Carnival) officially begins on January 6, the Twelfth Night of Christmas, also known as Epiphany – the day Jesus first showed himself to the three wise men and to the larger world. The festivities last from Epiphany until Lent, with “Fat Tuesday” (Mardi Gras, in French) being the last day of revelry and decadence before the more sober period of Lent begins.

Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday has a moveable date and may occur on any Tuesday from February 3 to March 9, as the date is set according to when Easter falls each year. It’s always the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which lasts 46 days (about one and a half months) until the celebration of Easter. This year, Mardi Gras is February 13.

One of the most enduring traditions during Carnival is feasting on “king cake,” again named because of the Biblical story of the three wise kings who brought gifts to Baby Jesus. A ring-shaped blend of coffee cake and cinnamon roll, it is frequently packed with fruit and decadent cream cheese fillings.

Most king cakes are traditionally decorated with the royal color purple, which signifies justice; green for growth; and gold, representing prosperity and wealth. These colors resemble a jeweled crown, and in fact, the traditional Spanish version of this cake is called Roscón de Reyes (crown of the king).

In the past, such things as coins, beans, pecans, or peas were also hidden in each cake. Today, a tiny plastic baby is the most used item, though chocolate babies or other edibles are sometimes used instead. At a Mardi Gras party, the king cake is sliced and served fresh. Each reveler looks to see if their piece of king cake contains the baby. If so, that person is declared “king for a day” and bound by historical Mardi Gras custom to host the next party, thus sparking an unending round of food and fun. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

BETTY CROCKER’S KING CAKE

This recipe has a lot of steps, but don’t worry… it’s not as hard as it seems, and freshly baked king cake is hard to beat. The brioche style dough is beautiful to work with and offers up a moist, buttery cake.

For the cake:

• 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 package (2-1/4 teaspoons) rapid rise yeast

• 1 cup milk

• 1/4 cup sugar

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 2 eggs

• 6 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, cut into 12 pieces

1. Mix 2-1/2 cups flour and yeast in mixing bowl of stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, on low for about 30 seconds.

2. Heat milk, sugar, and salt in a small saucepan over medium heat until sugar is dissolved, and milk is between 120°F to 130°F.

A Brief History of Mardi Gras and the King Cake Cont.

3. With mixer on low, pour in liquids and mix until incorporated. Add eggs one at a time. Continue mixing until a shaggy dough forms. Clean off paddle and switch to dough hook. Mix in the remaining 1 cup flour a little at a time, adding more (or less) flour as needed to make a soft dough. Add the softened butter, one piece at a time, kneading until each piece of butter is absorbed.

4. Knead for 8 minutes on low. The dough should completely clear the sides of the bowl. If it is too sticky, add flour 1 Tablespoon at a time, mixing thoroughly before adding more flour. If the dough seems too dry, spritz with water from a spray bottle, mixing in thoroughly before determining if more water is needed. Every 2 minutes, scrape the dough off the hook and continue kneading.

5. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times; form dough into a ball and place into a greased bowl, turning once so greased surface is on top. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.

Cinnamon Filling:

• 2/3 cup packed light brown sugar

• 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

• 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

• 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

1. While the dough is chilling, make cinnamon filling. In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar and ground cinnamon. Combine butter with cinnamon mixture and mix well.

2. Roll the chilled dough into a 10” x 20” rectangle. Spread the filling on half of the long side of the dough. Fold in half to cover the filling and pat firmly so the dough will stick. Shape into a ring and press the edges together.

3. Transfer to a greased baking sheet. Cover the ring with plastic wrap and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour. Bake at 350° until golden brown, 20-35 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool for 10 minutes on baking sheet, then place it on a cooling rack to cool completely before icing. To hide the baby in the cake, make a small slit in the bottom of the cake and push miniature plastic baby into cooled cake.

Icing:

• 1 cup powdered sugar

• 1 Tablespoon milk

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1. In a small bowl, mix icing ingredients (add additional milk if mixture is too thick, or powdered sugar if too thin).

2. Spoon icing over top of the cake. Immediately sprinkle on colored sugars, alternating between the three colors: dark green, purple, and yellow or gold.

Armchair Adventures: South Africa: Dancing with the Zulus

By Evelyn Kelly, PhD

South Africa is one of the most interesting African countries for geology, beautiful land formations, and culture. We are in Durban, a cosmopolitan city on the east coast of Africa. This diverse city has beautiful unspoiled beaches, and we Floridians are at home in the pleasant sub-tropical land caressed by warm ocean currents. However, we are advised not to walk anywhere at night but to take a taxi for even a short block to the mall.

Like all cities in South Africa, after apartheid was dismantled, men from the bush tribes flocked to town to find work, but little is available. South Africa is the richest country on the African continent, but dark clouds of unemployment, lack of education, and health issues are threatening. In each city, lines of men gather along the road waiting for buses or vans to take them to construction sites; most will be disappointed. However, we did not see a spirit of despair; people we speak to have pride about the “New South Africa.”

The bus leads us to our next adventure: Zululand. Men dressed in loincloths and with calves covered with shaggy white wool surround us as we step onto the land of the Zulus. Holding tightly to their spears and shields, the men beckon us to meet a charming young woman who speaks flawless English. Her corona-like crimson hat indicates she is married. The men and women sing a haunting melody as they escort us along a rocky path through the village. The plaintive sound is familiar; we have attended many African-American churches in Central Florida.

We move along to a large, thatched beehive hut and are not sure if the role we were playing is that of friend or foe. In the meeting hut, a tribal leader presides over the ceremonies. The dances of Zulu men and women require a high level of fitness that involves gyrations, clapping, and stamping. The rigorous performance is not unlike break dancing. Dances of the Zulu tribe transport us into a time when this tribe of strong, fierce warriors conquered surrounding tribes and fought both the Dutch and English.

And then they calm the dance down and bid us to join them. The unmarried girls are topless. We join them shuffling in a circle but with shirts on, of course.

We are brought back to reality with a large screen television that runs a video of ShakaZulu, the brilliant warrior who brought the nation together into a great military force. Many of us remember a popular television series “Shaka-Zulu,” set at the time of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879.

Zulus in the village live in traditional grass-thatched huts called beehives. The natives sleep on the floor. However our beehive hut was climate controlled with fine beds, toilets, running water, and all the comforts of home except television. We do hear goats wandering around at night and crowing roosters wake us up.

Zulus are renowned weavers of baskets and mats made from palm fronds and other colored grasses. We buy a set of fertility dolls with charming tiny beads although we really don’t need the dolls for fertility. Our visit to Zululand captured the essence of Africa to us.

BOOK REVIEW

Symbols of Valentine’s Day - by Kathy A. Megyeri

“Hearts, Cupids, and Red Roses, the Story of Valentine Symbols,” by Edna Barth and illustrated by Ursula Arndt Cupids, heart shapes, turtle doves or love birds, clusters of rosebuds, hearts of paper lace—all are symbols of Valentine’s Day, a time when people express friendship, affection and love, especially for someone special. Edna Barth’s study of legends and symbols traced to their early beginnings in various countries is a treasure for all who celebrate love. Barth (1900-1981) was a librarian, teacher and editor of books for young people before becoming a children’s book author.

Legends of St. Valentine abound. The most prevalent is the legend of a Valentine who was seized for helping Christians being persecuted by Claudius II. During Valentine’s time in prison, the jailer and his family were so impressed with his sincerity that they became Christians themselves. After Valentine miraculously restored the sight of the blind jailer’s daughter, he sent her a farewell message on February 14, the date of his execution, and signed it “From your Valentine.” From his burial site, a pink almond tree burst into bloom.

The oldest known valentine in letter form was written in 1477 by Margery Brews and sent to John Paston, Margery’s “right worshipful and well-beloved Valentine.” For the next hundred years, some of England’s finest writers – including Robert Herrick and Samuel Pepys – wrote valentine poems.

Lacy valentines reached their peak during the Victorian era (1840-1860) and were enhanced with silk, satin, chiffon, and real

lace. In 1845, the machine age brought new printing methods and the sending of valentines became very popular. In 1848, Esther Howland of Massachusetts imported lace colored paper and flowers and became the premier maker of lacy valentines which today are collectors’ items.

During the Civil War, valentines often included a lock of hair. During WWI, valentines had patriotic themes. Card companies like Norcross and Hallmark promoted the true-love knot in addition to hearts, birds, flowers, and hands. Germans who settled in Pennsylvania created love tokens of single and double hearts. Sailors at sea created designs on scrimshaw.

Kate Greenaway sold her first design of charming children dressed in quaint costumes for $15 and sales spiked to 25,000. In 1925, Lady Jeanetta Tuck suggested to her husband who owned a greeting card business that the firm’s Diamond Jubilee should be celebrated by sending valentines. Today, in addition to cards, candy, flowers, jewelry or perfume are the preferred gifts.

This exhaustive history, beautifully presented with drawings, continues with a discussion of love birds, hearts, classroom Valentine boxes, the growth of the heart motif, Cupid, the rose, paper lace and the colors of red, pink and white. All suggest that despite wars and world problems, romance lives on and expresses something vital. The book concludes: ”….. human beings will continue to fall in love and marry. To be alive and a part of all this is truly delightful.”

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