Encyclopedia of the Exquisite
Jessica Kerwin Jenkins's collection of "uncommon delicacies," curated with care and garnished with wit. Review by Jason Farago.
Lenore Skenazy: Disney to Princess: Drop Dead (Creators Syndicate)
Disney, pretty much the fairy godmother's home away from home for the past seven decades, just announced it no longer will be making movies based on fairy tales. Oddly enough, this just may be a case in which we all end up living happily ever after.
David Bruce has 39 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $39 you can buy 9,750 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," and "Maximum Cool."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the leak of hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic documents is an attack not only on the United States but also the international community...
"This disclosure is not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests," Clinton said. "It is an attack on the international community: the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity." ..."It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems," she told reporters at the State Department...
Clinton calls leaked documents attack on world | detnews.com | The Detroit News
(I watched her statement live and she looked to be NOT a happy camper... Woe be unto PFC Manning)
Do you feel the release of these diplomatic documents are:
1.) A good thing...
2.) A bad thing...
3.) Sorta good - Kinda bad...
4.) Hey! What happened to the Holiday Season theme - thingy?
The Linzer Torte, named after the city of Linz, Austria, is the oldest-known torte in the world. For a long time a recipe from 1696 in the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known. In 2005, however, Waltraud Faißner, the library director of the Upper Austrian Landesmuseum and author of the book "Wie mann die Linzer Dortten macht" ("How to make the Linzer Torte") found an even older recipe from 1653 in Codex 35/31 in the archive of the Admont Abbey.
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Alan J was first, and correct with:
The Linzer Torte
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
The Linzer Torte, named after the city of Linz, Austria, is the
oldest-known torte in the world.
Adam answered:
The Linzer-Torte, which isn't even all that old (or, truth be told, particularly good cake).
Skip the Linzer and make this:
This is the best Chocolate cake in the world. The very best.
I cut the frosting recipe in half, and add a couple of oz of White Chocolate.
You'll think this came straight out of a Parisian bakery.
Charlie wrote:
The Linzer torte, named for Linz, Austria. A recipe dated to 1653 was found in 2005.
Marian responded:
Linzer Torte
Sally said:
On this night, the 4th candle is lit on the Menorah. Then, we open the apartment door for family and neighbors (Jewish and non) to drop by! My SIL will play the piano, and we sing, and schmooze (sweet talk), and EAT! For a few hours, on this night, my gks will experience how the world would be...if we could all just get along!
The candle in the middle is used to light the Hanukkah candles (one per night) thus, this menorah shows three candles lit so far...
And, this is the, "Linzer Torte," named after the city of, Linz, Austria, is the oldest-known torte in the world.
PS: Jessie (my almost 9 yo granddaughter), told me that I must tell you about Hanukkah first (before the Trivia Reply). I asked her, "Why?" (Thinking it was some religious law of which I am ignorant.) To this she replied: "That just the way it is, gamma, my teacher said so..."
So, Marty, that's just the way it is... :)
MAM wrote:
The Linzer Torte, named after the city of Linz, Austria, is the oldest-known torte in the world, with recipes going back to the 1600s.
BadtotheboneBob replied:
The Austrian Linzer torte... and I'm thinkin' that if it's that old, it must not be very good otherwise someone would have eaten it by now. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
(I know, I know... But, I couldn't resist... I am, after all, Bad... Right? Yuppers!)
And, Joe S answered:
The Linzer Torte, named after the city of Linz, Austria, is the oldest-known torte in the world. For a long time a recipe from 1696 in the Vienna Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known. In 2005, however, Waltraud Faißner, the library director of the Upper Austrian Landesmuseum and author of the book "Wie mann die Linzer Dortten macht" ("How to make the Linzer Torte") found an even older recipe from 1653 in Codex 35/31 in the archive of the Admont Abbey. And on and on and on.........
Piece?
Detroit- Wayne State University will no longer offer an award named in honor of one of its most famous alumni, former White House Press Corps member Helen Thomas, officials announced today. The Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity award will no longer be handed out because of controversial statements Thomas, an Arab American, made during a conference in Dearborn on Thursday that resurrected a controversy from earlier this year. Thomas told a crowd at a diversity conference that "Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question, in my opinion." Thomas has been an important figure and supporter of WSU's journalism program, from which she graduated from during the 1940s, officials said...
SAGINAW, Mich. -- A man accused of shooting a Freeland teen in 2006 was arrested by Michigan State troopers. Lando Calrissian Young, 24, was found Monday and troopers said they think his family had been hiding him in Saginaw for five years.
Yes, I had a TV show in the 80s. All my personal videotapes were stolen
years ago so I had no way to prove it when I drunkenly claimed to non-believers
that I once had a TV show, but now there's proof. Overview, produced by Michael
Nesmith, has been posted to YouTube! That's Taylor Negron at the top and me in
the mullet at 2:35.
Depending on traffic and weather, Monday's page may be a bit late.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'Undercover Boss', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW fills the night with the movie 'Snow Dogs'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH hourlong 'Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'The Closer', followed by another old 'The Closer'.
A&E has 'Gene Simmons', another 'Gene Simmons', still another 'Gene Simmons', yet another 'Gene Simmons', followed by a FRESH'Gene Simmons', then a FRESH'The Hasselhoffs', followed by another FRESH'The Hasselhoffs'.
BBC -
[7:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Sebastian's
[8:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[9:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show Andrew Lloyd Webber Special
[9:30 AM] Billy Elliot
[12:00 PM] The Commitments
[2:30 PM] Backbeat
[4:30 PM] Imagine: John Lennon
[7:00 PM] Beatles Biggest Secrets
[8:00 PM] Backbeat
[10:00 PM] The Beatles: From Liverpool to San Francisco
[11:00 PM] Imagine: John Lennon
[1:30 AM] The Making of Sweeney Todd
[2:00 AM] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[4:30 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 13
[5:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Episode 14
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', still another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has 'Nick Swardson: Seriously, Who Farted?', 'Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny', 'Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious', then the FRESH'Comedy Central's Hot List'.
FX has the movie 'The Rundown', followed by the movie 'Tropic Thunder'.
History has 'IRT Deadliest Roads', another 'IRT Deadliest Roads', followed by a FRESH'IRT: Deadliest Roads', then a FRESH'Top Gear'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Living the Legacy: The Untold Story of Milton Hershey School
[7:20 AM] Deep Water
[9:00 AM] Trans
[10:25 AM] Hero
[12:00 PM] Arrested Development
[12:30 PM] Arrested Development
[1:00 PM] Arrested Development
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[2:00 PM] Arrested Development
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[6:00 PM] Arrested Development
[6:30 PM] Arrested Development
[6:55 PM] Hero
[8:30 PM] Breaker! Breaker!
[10:00 PM] Undeclared
[10:30 PM] Undeclared
[11:00 PM] The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
[11:30PM] Arrested Development
[12:00 AM] Requiem for a Dream
[1:45 AM] Breaker! Breaker!
[3:20 AM] Undeclared
[3:50AM] Undeclared
[4:20 AM] Deep Water (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:20 AM] The Tunnel Dwellers of New York
[8:15 AM] Bob Le Flambeur
[10:00 AM] E2: ENERGY - Paving the Way
[10:30 AM] e2 Energy
[11:00 AM] The Unforeseen
[12:40 PM] Minot, North Dakota
[1:00 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Stands Up for Aunt Sassy (Episode 4, Season 1)
[1:30 PM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Demands Dignity (Episode 5, Season 1)
[2:00 PM] Capturing the Friedmans
[3:50 PM] Ran (1985)
[6:35 PM] Bob Le Flambeur
[8:20 PM] The Wedding Weekend
[10:00 PM] Red Riding: 1980
[11:45 PM] Sleeping Betty
[12:00 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Stands Up for Aunt Sassy (Episode 4, Season 1)
[12:30 AM] THE COMEBACK - Valerie Demands Dignity (Episode 5, Season 1)
[1:00 AM] Monster
[2:50 AM] Red Riding: 1980
[4:35 AM] The Wedding Weekend (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End', followed by the movie 'The Golden Compass'.
Comedian Kathy Griffin hosts the VH1 "Divas Salute The Troops" show at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, December 3, 2010.
Photo by K.C. Alfred
French-Polish director Roman Polanski's political thriller "The Ghost Writer" swept the European Film Awards on Saturday, picking up six prizes including best movie, director, actor and screenplay.
The annual awards, held this year in the Estonian capital Tallinn, also honoured Israeli war drama "Lebanon," shot almost entirely from inside a tank. Lebanon won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival in 2009.
Polanski, who spent several months this year under house arrest in Switzerland but avoided extradition to the United States in connection with a 1977 sex crime, did not attend the prize ceremony but appeared via Skype from his Paris home.
Polanski was named best director, the movie -- with a lead role loosely based on former British prime minister Tony Blair -- was best European film, its star Ewan McGregor picked up the best actor award and Polanski and Robert Harris won the best script writer category.
Dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones (C) poses with unidentified guests as they arrive at the State Department for a gala dinner for the 2010 Kennedy Center Honorees in Washington December 4, 2010.
Photo by Mike Theiler
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation celebrated its anniversary Friday night with a swanky cocktail party at the Harmony Gold Theatre in Los Angeles. Chaz Bono, Jean Smart, Amber Heard and Ed Begley Jr. were among the celebrity attendees who toasted the group, which focuses on how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folks are presented in the media.
"We've made great progress in these media capitols," said Jarrett Barrios, president of GLAAD. "Beyond Hollywood, beyond New York, between these blue states, right at this nation's red center, we have miles to go. How far do we still have to go to ensure that an environment of respect exists for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people?"
GLAAD was first formed in 1985 in New York to protest the New York Post's coverage of AIDS. The organization went on to push for several changes throughout the media, such as the inclusion of a same-sex couple on the viewer-voted wedding contest on NBC's "Today" show and modifications to how gays are referred to in The Associated Press Stylebook.
The group now annually holds the GLAAD Media Awards, which actor Steven Weber called the "gayer Oscars," and releases the "Where We Are on TV" report, which tracks LGBT characters on network shows. This year's report found that there were 23 gay and bisexual characters on scripted network TV out of a total of 600, up 3 percent from last season.
Dave Brubeck gingerly made his way to the bandstand through a packed Blue Note jazz club, and a smile lit up the jazz legend's face after he began playing a Duke Ellington medley he dedicated to "my favorite jazz composer, pianist, musician and friend."
The pianist, who celebrates his 90th birthday on Monday, mixed standards and originals drawn from his nearly 70-year career in a 90-minute set that left time for only a shortened "Take Five," the late alto saxophonist Paul Desmond's odd-metered tune that surprisingly put the Brubeck Quartet at the top of the pop charts nearly 50 years ago.
Brubeck could easily have excused himself from the late November sold-out Blue Note gig: It came a month after he was discharged from a Connecticut hospital after a 16-day stay following heart surgery to install a pacemaker. But he felt a strong motivation to perform with his quartet.
"It's the love of the music and the love of being with the group because we have such a great time," said Brubeck, speaking by telephone from his Wilton, Conn., home. "I could kind of not work so hard anymore, but that might be a bad thing. My personal doctor said, `You know, Dave, when you start playing things start looking up, so I don't advise you to stop. You need to play.'"
On Monday, four generations of Brubecks, including several great-grandchildren, will gather in the family home in the Connecticut woods to watch Turner Classic Movies broadcast "Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way," a new documentary directed by Bruce Ricker and narrated by Alec Baldwin. Its executive producer was Clint Eastwood.
French actress Catherine Deneuve attends a dinner hosted by Dior at the Palais Souleiman in Marrakesh December 4, 2010. The dinner was held in conjunctionwith the Marrakesh International Film Festival.
Photo by Jean Blondin
Jeneane Marie Cranert boasts of touring Europe with the Funk Brothers and Tito Jackson and warming up the stage over the years for such stars as Frank Sinatra, Liberace and Wayne Newton.
It sounds glamorous, only Cranert is telling the story from beneath the covers of her bed, where a bone disease has confined her for weeks because she doesn't have health insurance and can't afford hip replacement surgery.
The Las Vegas Strip is ripe with entertainers hungry for fame and fortune. They sing, dance, tell jokes and play their instruments. Most gauge their success by the times they share the stage with headliners like Tony Bennett, Charo, Elvis Presley and Dean Martin.
But stage life comes without the promise of steady paychecks and employer-sponsored health insurance.
"Entertainers are second-class citizens until they make it and then they are royalty," said Tony Sacca, who has been singing in Las Vegas for 30 years. "We help each other out."
Sacca heads the Showbiz Society, a charity group that raises money for Las Vegas performers in need. He and more than a dozen other performers will charge $22 a head at a benefit concert Sunday to raise money to pay for Cranert's medical bills. Jim Marsh, owner of the Skyline casino, said he will match up to $6,000 of the donations for a bill that could exceed $100,000. Cranert has applied for Medicare but is not sure she can wait for her paperwork to be processed.
Authorities say rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant as he left a restaurant near Universal Studios outside Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Shawn Ruda says Knight was released about an hour after his arrest early Saturday.
Ruda tells the Los Angeles Times that Knight was stopped by deputies, who ran his name through computers and discovered he was wanted on a minor traffic warrant issued recently in Beverly Hills.
Ruda says Knight, who has a long arrest record, was not doing anything wrong when he was stopped, and agreed to talk to the deputies.
Singer and songwriter Merle Haggard, a 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree, poses with his wife Theresa Ann Lane, as they arrive at the State Department for agala dinner for the 2010 Kennedy Center Honorees in Washington December 4, 2010.
Photo by Mike Theiler
The Massachusetts attorney general's office has ordered comedian Dane Cook's half brother and sister-in-law to pay $12 million in restitution after they pleaded guilty to stealing from him.
Darryl and Erika McCauley of Wilmington were accused of embezzling millions from Cook while Darryl McCauley was working as Cook's business manager.
Darryl McCauley was sentenced in October to five to six years in prison on charges including 27 counts of larceny. His wife was sentenced to 2 1/2 to three years in prison on charges including two counts of larceny.
A spokesman for Attorney General Martha Coakley told the Portsmouth Herald that the next step is for the court to tally the couple's assets. The couple bought a home in York Beach, Maine, and also invested in a hotel and restaurant there.
Composer and lyricist Jerry Herman, a 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree, poses for photographers on the red carpet as he arrives at the State Department fora gala dinner for the 2010 Kennedy Center Honorees in Washington December 4, 2010.
Photo by Mike Theiler
Caught in the buff, a drunken 19-year-old Australian man led German police on a chase through Munich's main train station late Wednesday before slipping on a wet floor where he was later apprehended unhurt.
The Sydney native wore only his shoes and held his underwear in his hand during the chase in freezing temperatures, a spokesman for the Bavarian state police said.
The teenager quickly changed into his underwear once he fell and police later covered him in a blanket.
During questioning the teenager told police that he was carrying out a bet with friends that he could travel through Europe naked. The Bavarian capital was the 11th city on his tour and the first in which he was caught out, according to police.
French actor and jury president Alain Delon attends the Miss France 2011 ceremony in Caen, western France, December 4, 2010. Some 33 participants competedfor the title on Saturday.
Photo by Benoit Tessier
WikiLeaks has lost a major source of revenue after the online payment service provider PayPal cut off its account used to collect donations, saying the website is engaged in illegal activity.
The announcement also came as WikiLeaks is struggling to keep its website accessible after service providers such as Amazon dropped contracts, and governments and hackers continued to hound the organization.
Donating money to WikiLeaks via PayPal was not possible anymore on Saturday, generating an error message saying: "This recipient is currently unable to receive money."
PayPal, a subsidiary of U.S.-based online marketplace operator EBay Inc., offers online payment services that are one of several ways WikiLeaks collects donations - and until now was probably the most secure and convenient way to support the organization.
Media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Saturday condemned the personal attacks on Assange and "the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure" in what it called the first "attempt at the international community level to censor a website dedicated to the principle of transparency."
A terracotta statuette of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, second from left, and statuettes of, from left; German Chancellor Angela Merkel, PresidentBarack Obama, and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, are seen amongst other statuettes of a nativity scene in a shop in the renown Via San Gregorio Armeno street of nativity scene craftsmen, in Naples, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010. Assange is a former computer hacker who has embarrassed the U.S. government and foreign leaders with his online release of a huge trove of secret American diplomatic cables.
Photo by Salvatore Laporta
Federal wildlife biologists have confirmed sightings of two more Sierra Nevada red foxes that once were thought to be extinct.
Scientists believe the foxes are related to another that was photographed this summer near Yosemite National Park. More importantly, they say, DNA samples show enough diversity in the Sierra Nevada red foxes to suggest a "fairly strong population" of the animals may secretly be doing quite well in the rugged mountains about 90 miles south of Reno.
The first confirmed sighting of the subspecies in two decades came in August when a remote camera captured the image of a female fox in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Sonora Pass.
Forest Service officials confirmed Friday that two more foxes - one male and one female - were photographed in September in the neighboring Stanislaus National Forest, about 4 miles from the original.
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