My guilty pleasure in tv watching is Brit mysteries but it also crosses over to American cop/investigator shows. I noticed this pattern recently of single father, daughter dramas. The first was Bosch (with the cool LA house he bought with screenwriter money) , then came Wild Bill (nutty rob lowe casting)
The Rise of the Dairy Restaurant in New York City
The proliferation of restaurants serving an Ashkenazic-style dairy cuisine in New York City after 1881 can be attributed to the unique historical confluence of events and ideas.
The historically unprecedented growth and concentration of a Jewish population provided a ready base of customers with a knowledge of, and taste for, Eastern European dairy dishes. Within a few years of their arrival, some of the immigrants and their children had amassed enough capital to go into business for themselves. The restaurant business was booming in New York and as everyone ate and cooked at home thet felt they had the skills to enter this field. Their clientele, in the aftermath of the meat strikes of 1902, were happy to avoid meat all together and trusted that their landsmen would handle the dairy and parve foodstuffs according to their commonsense understanding of Jewish dietary law---professional certification was unnecessary. The clientele was also spurred by an awareness of the vegetarian and pure-food movements. The health giving and ethical benefits of a dairy and vegetable-based diet were popularized in the Yiddish and American press. The model for their new dairy restaurant was readily found in the omnipresent American dairy lunchrooms. Here was a decor devoid of Old World associations and organized on the scientific principles of sanitation and food handling. Finally, between June and August of 1906, the 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘴 serialized a Yiddish-language translation by Abraham Cahan of Upton Sinclair's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦---an exposé of the brutal and unsanitary conditions in the slaughter- and meat-packing houses of Chicago. Sinclair noted that his celebrity came about "not because the public cared anything about the workers [depicted in the book], but simply because the public did not want to eat tubercular beef."
According to Marcus Eli Ravage it was the Romanians "who, out of a complex desire to serve his stomach and his faith, brought forth an institution which has now become universal in America---the dairy lunch-room---which, owing to the exigencies of religion, was originally just what it is called, a place where nothing but the most palatable dishes built out of milk and milk products were to be had, and where no morsel that had been in the vicinity of meat could be obtained for love or money." ["My Plunge into the Slums," in 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘳'𝘴, April 1917]
-- Ben Katchor / The Dairy Restaurant
Photo of busy Nassau Street looking south from Fulton Street in the financial district. March 3, 1926.
ooh, oh alabama...
https://www.thejapanesepantry.com/
this little puppy at $2.40 and oz, is explosive!
https://www.thejapanesepantry.com/products/ponzu-sauce?_pos=1&_sid=a56d9a0fd&_ss=r
havent watched any soccer post covid but might tune in for the champions league final at 3est for paris st germain vs bayern munich.
Again New England Cheese.....
The documentary Coup 53 can be streamed today (and only today) for $5:
Ten years in the making, COUP 53 tells the story of the 1953 the Anglo-American coup d'état that overthrew Iran's government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstalled the Shah. The CIA/MI6 covert action was called Operation Ajax. It was all about Iran’s oil and who gets to control and benefit from it. BP was at the heart of this story. Shot in seven countries, featuring participants and first-hand witnesses, and unearthing never seen before archive material, COUP 53 is a politically explosive and cinematically innovative documentary that lifts the lid on secrets buried for over sixty-six years.
This comes highly recommended by folks I trust. We just bought our tickets.
Can’t watch these outtakes enough times pic.twitter.com/9VmfCPh0Oy
— Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) August 18, 2020
just as it says above, buttery sourdough sandwich biscuits from the King Arthur flour people
never watched dune. has anyone? the movie is kind of a shit show. can see why lynch disavowed it. the original novel was inspired by herberts time on the dunes in oregon.
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The Sifter isn’t a collection of recipes, or a repository of entire texts. Instead, it’s a multilingual database, currently 130,000-items strong, of the ingredients, techniques, authors, and section titles included in more than 5,000 European and U.S. cookbooks. It provides a bird’s-eye view of long-term trends in European and American cuisines, from shifting trade routes and dining habits to culinary fads. Search “cupcakes,” for example, and you’ll find the term may have first popped up in Mrs. Putnam’s Receipt Book And Young Housekeeper’s Assistant, a guide for ladies running middle-class households in the 1850s. Search “peacock” and you’ll find the bird’s meat was sometimes eaten from the 1400s to the 1700s in courtly England.
Great PDX Eats
some of you may remember it served at salmonberry saloon w/ the clams
"warren would go a long way to mending the party but harris seems more likely...." - some dude, march 11
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDpM2a2hCv0/
need to do that meal one day, sadly never at there whenI was on a dumping is OK diet, but the meats and sides work
The rise, fall, and afterlife of George Sterling’s California arts colony.
Sixty years ago this week, on August 12, 1960, #DrSeuss published what would become his best-selling book of all time. Written as the result of a $50 bet between Seuss and his publisher Bennett Cerf, it has since sold more than 8 million copies.
— Brian Jay Jones (@brianjayjones) August 9, 2020
The book? GREEN EGGS AND HAM. /1 pic.twitter.com/RWr2meDvvn
10 Must-See Architecture Documentaries and Series on Netflix
did not know that maureen o'sullivan who is most famous for playing jane in a series of tarzan movies opposite johnny weissmuller was mia farrows mother.
goldie hawn day on tcm. i missed her early wide-eyed 60s-infused avatar of free love roles like theres a girl in my soup instead coming in at her slightly more mature wide-eyed late 70s rom-com stage in movies like foul play or private benjamin. seems like old times, again paired with chevy chase, is on at six. i suspect it hasnt aged well, and it was never that good, but it was pleasantly not bad for an early 80s "whats on hbo for the 100th time" offering.
