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Blue Heaven & Food Reference Newsletter Vol 2 # 5 February 12, 2001
ISSN 1535-5659
Food Facts, Trivia, History, Recipes, Key West and Blue Heaven News
Food Reference WebSite: http://www.foodreference.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
Free Grocery Coupons
Food Trivia Question
Recipes
Food History
Key West Event News
Blue Heaven Restaurant News
Food Trivia
Quotes
More
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PLEASE CHECK OUT THE NEW WEBSITE and let me know what you think.
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TRIVIA
Alfred Charles Kinsey is famous for the two books his Institute for Sex Research
published, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior of
the Human Female (1953). However, he was also a world authority on the
taxonomy of gall wasps.
He also wrote Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America (1943).
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VALUPAGE GROCERY COUPONS
Go to the link below for FREE Grocery Coupons. Just print the ones you want,
bring them with you when you go shopping - it's easy - over $40.00 in coupons!
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QUOTE
""Shallots are for babies; Onions are for men; garlic is for heroes.""
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FOOD TRIVIA QUESTION: WHAT AM I?
The Food Trivia Quizzes are now moved to their own separate section after the newsletter is e-mailed. Check the Navigation Bar at the top of the page.
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PHOTOS
Check out the new photos See if you recognize your waiter or waitress!
http://blueheavenkw.homestead.com/photothumbnail6.html
Email or send by regular mail, your photos related to Blue Heaven Restaurant
or food to kwfood@bellsouth.net I will add them to the Blue Heaven WebSite.
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FEBRUARY EVENTS
February 13
1741 First Magazine Published in America. Andrew Bradford published
The American Magazine just three days ahead of Ben Franklins
General Magazine.
February 14
Valentine's Day
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris is born. Inventor of the Ferris Wheel.
1894 Jack Benny is born.
1946 ENIAC Computer is demonstrated.
February 15 - 20
Miami International Boat & Sailboat Show - Largest in the U.S.
February 15
Lupercalia. Anniversary of ancient Roman fertility festival.
Possibly a forerunner of Valentine's Day customs.
1564 Galileo Galilei was born.
1809 Cyrus H. McCormick was born, inventor of the reaper.
1820 Susan B. Anthony was born.
1812 Charles Lewis Tiffany was born, American jeweler.
1951 Melissa Manchester was born.
February 16, 17
Jalapeno Festival in Laredo, Texas.
February 17, 19
Coconut Grove Arts Festival
February 18
Chocolate Festival in Norman, Oklahoma
Daytona 500
1930 First Cow Milked While Flying in an Airplane (True!)
1933 Yoko Ono was born.
1930 Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
February 19
Presidents' Day
1473 Nicolaus Copernicus born (Polish Astronomer)
1963 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan published.
February 20
1902 Ansel Adams was born. (Photographer)
1920 Carl E. Stotz was born. (Founder of Little League Baseball)
1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie was born.
February 21
1866 Lucy Hobbs, First Woman Graduated from Dental School
1925 First issue of the New Yorker Magazine
1933 Nina Simone was born.
(c) 2001 Chases Calendar of Events)
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ANCIENT AND CLASSIC RECIPES
APPLE FRITTERS from: The 14th century cookery book Diuersa seruicia
"Take flour and eggs and grind pepper and saffron and make thereto a batter; and
pare apples and cut them into broad pieces, and cast them therein, and fry them
in the batter with fresh grease and serve them forth."
COFFEE from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
"Use a tablespoonful ground to a pint of boiling water [less than a quarter of
what we would use today]. Boil in tin pot twenty to twenty-five minutes. If
boiled longer it will not taste fresh and lively. Let stand four or five minutes
to settle, pour off grounds into a coffee pot or urn. Put fish skin or isinglass
size of a nine-pence in pot when put on to boil or else the white and shell of
half an egg to a couple of quarts of coffee."
------------------------------------------------------------------------Email your recipe requests or food information or history questions to me at
kwfood@bellsouth.net
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QUOTE
Truffles
"The most learned men have been questioned as to the nature of this tuber, and
after two thousand years of argument and discussion their answer is the same as
it was on the first day: we do not know. The truffles themselves have been
interrogated, and have answered simply: eat us and praise the Lord."
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
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DID YOU KNOW
'Balsamic' means 'like balsam' - and balsam is an aromatic resin - balsamic
vinegar simply refers to the fact that it is thick (resin like) and aromatic.
Here is a short summary of Balsamic Vinegar, where it comes from and how
it is made.
The unique and traditional balsamic vinegar of Modena, Italy (Aceto
Balsamico di Modena) is made from the 'must' (unfermented juice) of mainly
the Trebbiano grape, other grapes used are Lambrusco, Ancellotta, Sauvignon
and Sgavetta. These 'musts' cannot have anything added. The must is then boiled
down in open pots over a direct flame.
The extract (concentrated juice) from this cooking is now a fruity syrup. At this
point some 'mother' of vinegar can be added. ('Mother' is a stringy, slimy
substance that forms on the surface of vinegar, composed of various yeast and
bacteria [especially mycoderma aceti] that cause fermentation in wine and
cider, and turn it into acetic acid - vinegar). It is then aged in barrels of different
woods - first in one, then transferred to another etc. Each company has its own
secret progression of wooden barrels usually including chestnut, ash tree,
cherry, mulberry, juniper and oak. The finished vinegar must be at least 6 years
old, and some is aged much longer. The finished vinegar is then presented to
the DOC, a governing body similar to those that govern the quality of French
and Italian wines. Balsamic vinegars without this designation on the label are
usually unaged, or aged for 6 months to a year in stainless steel tanks.
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TRIVIA
Balsamic Vinegar
This distinctive vinegar has long been cherished: in fact, it was once
considered so valuable that it was included in the dowries of young ladies of
nobility and was specifically mentioned in wills. And in 1944, when reports
of approaching American bombers reached the Modena area, small kegs of
balsamic vinegar were packed up along with money, jewelry and other
valuables.
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BLUE HEAVEN NEWS:
WINTER HOURS:
Monday - Saturday -
Breakfast: 8am to 11:45am
Lunch: Noon to 3pm
Dinner: 6pm to 10:30pm
Sunday -
Brunch: 8am to 1pm
Dinner: 6pm to 10:30pm
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QUOTE
"When there is no more cookery in the world, there will be no more letters,
no quick and lofty intelligence, no pleasant easy relationships; no more social
unity."
Antonin Carême (Marie-Antoine Carême) (1783-1833)
One of the greatest chefs of all time, 'the cook of kings and the king of cooks'.
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QUOTE
"Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected by a
more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table."
Charles Pierre Monselet (French journalist and author) (1825-1888)
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LUNCH COUNTER LINGO
In the jargon of the lunch counter and diner, "full house" is a
grilled cheese, bacon, and tomato sandwich.
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