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Food Reference Newsletter Vol 2 # 6 February 18, 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
Food History
Key West Event News
Recipes
Blue Heaven Restaurant News
Food Trivia
Quotes
More
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TRIVIA
agar (agar-agar)
Also called Japanese Isinglass, Bengal isinglass, and Japanese moss.
This additive is used as a texturizing agent, emulsifier, stabilizing agent
and thickener in ice cream, sherbets, jellies, soups, sauces, canned soups,
and canned meat & fish. It is used as a clarifying agent in wine-making
and brewing, to fill the pores in cloth and paper manufacturing ('sizing'),
as a medium for growing bacteria; in dentistry and cosmetics; film and
adhesives. It is prepared from several species of red algae (or seaweed).
It is a vegetable gelatin, and is therefore used by vegetarians because true
gelatin is made from calf's feet.
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David at HUB-UK is also publishing some of my articles and recipes on
his site. Please check out this site with Recipes and Great Food Ideas!
http://www.hub-uk.com
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QUOTE
"A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks
of Picasso."
Alan Patrick Herbert, Sir (1890-1971) 'The Highbrow'
English journalist and writer; joined staff of Punch in 1924.
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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 18
Daytona 500
1930 The first time a Cow was milked while flying in an airplane.
(St. Louis, Missouri)
1930 Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
Birthdays:
Yoko Ono (1933)
FEBRUARY 19
President's Day
1963 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan published.
Birthdays:
Smokey Robinson (1940)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473)
FEBRUARY 20
Birthdays:
Carl E. Stotz (1920) Founder of Little League Baseball
William Prescott (1726) "Don't fire until you see the whites of their
eyes."
FEBRUARY 21
1925 The first issue of New Yorker Magazine published
1866 Lucy Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from Dental
School, Cincinnati, Ohio
Birthdays:
Nina Simone (1933)
FEBRUARY 22
1819 Florida acquired from Spain
1879 First Chain Store opens, Woolworths, Utica, New York
Birthdays:
George Washington (1732)
Robert Baden-Powell (1857) Founder of Boy Scouts
Robert P. Wadlow (1918) (Tallest man in recorded history, 8ft 11in)
FEBRUARY 23
Birthdays:
Peter Fonda (1939)
W.E.B. Dubois (1866)
George Frederick Handel (1685)
FEBRUARY 24 - 27 - Brazil and elsewhere - CARNIVAL!!!
FEBRUARY 24
1582 Gregorian Calendar Day
Clam Chowder Cookoff, Santa Cruz, California
Birthdays:
Steve Jobs (1955)
Honus Wagner (1874)
FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 3 - National Pancake Week
FEBRUARY 25
1964 Cassius Clay becomes Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Birthdays:
George Harrison (1943)
Adelle Davis (1905) author: Let's Cook it Right, 1947;
Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit, 1954
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841)
(c) 2001 Chases Calendar of Events)
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KEY WEST EVENTS
February 24 to February 25, in Key West
OLD ISLAND DAYS ARTS FESTIVAL
February 26, 27
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FINE ARTS CENTER
Cyrano de Bergerac by Aquila Theatre Company of London
March 1 - 10
MONROE COUNTY FAIR
Flagler and 14th Street, Key West
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Email your recipe requests or food information or history questions to
me at kwfood@bellsouth.net
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QUOTE
"A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
American writer & journalist strongly influenced by Poe.
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DID YOU KNOW
Chocolate manufacturers currently use 40 percent of the world's almonds
and 20 percent of the world's peanuts.
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TRIVIA
Some food tips have been around a very long time.
boiled eggs: "Item, whether they be soft or hard, as soon as they are
cooked put them in cold water: they will be easier to peel."
from 14th century Menagier de Paris
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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
The Perfect cup of coffee:
"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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RECIPE
French Onion Soup
Serving Size : 5
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 pound Onions -- sliced
1 ounce Butter
1/4 tablespoon Olive oil
1/3 teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Flour
1 tablespoon Sugar
1/4 teaspoon Black pepper
1/4 teaspoon Thyme
1/8 teaspoon Sage
1 whole Bay Leaves
1/3 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
1/8 teaspoon Tabasco Sauce
2 cups Chicken Stock, Strong
1 quart Beef Stock, Strong
1/2 cup Red Wine
2 tablespoons Brandy
5 slices French Bread Slice -- toasted
5 ounces Gruyere Cheese -- sliced
[1) Sauté Onions in Butter & Oil in a large stock pot. Do not stir
too often or onions will get mushy and will not brown.
[2) When Onions start to brown, add SALT and SUGAR.....Continue to
brown.....cook until dark golden brown.
[3) Add FLOUR and cook 5 minutes...
[4) Add Seasonings and Liquids, Simmer for 45 minutes.
Adjust for flavor.
Fill soup bowl with soup, top with toasted bread slice, then with Gruyere
cheese slice, and brown under broiler.
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QUOTE
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what
the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is
another theory which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
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LUNCH COUNTER LINGO
In the jargon of the lunch counter and diner,
'take a flower' means with onion.
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