<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Bavarian Cream Pie Day'. . Bavarian Cream was created by French
chef Marie Antione Careme, Made with Bavarian Cream, a gelatin cream.
- From Wikipedia ():
'Bavarian cream, Crème bavaroise or simply Bavarois is a dessert similar to
pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or
cornstarch, and sometimes flavoured with liqueur. It is not to be confused
with crème anglaise, which is a custard sauce thickened with egg.
Bavarian cream is a classic dessert that was included in the repertoire of
chef Marie-Antoine Carême, who is sometimes credited with it. It was named
in the early 19th century for Bavaria or, perhaps more likely in the
history of haute cuisine, for a particularly distinguished visiting
Bavarian, such as a Wittelsbach. Escoffier declared that Bavarois would be
more properly Moscovite, owing to its preparation, in the days before
mechanical refrigeration, by being made in a hermetically sealed mold that
was plunged into salted, crushed ice to set—hence Muscovite Pannacotta, the
Italian dessert of sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and molded is
comparable.
True Bavarian creams first appeared in the U.S. in Boston Cooking School
cookbooks, by Mrs D.A. Lincoln, 1884, and by Fannie Merritt Farmer, 1896.
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook offers a Bavarian Cream'.
[The Hankster says] If i must have a pie thrown in my face, I think this would be my choice.
* 'National Craft Jerky Day '. . By the Long Beach Jerky Co.,
promoting small batch jerky makers.
- From Wikipedia (Jerky):
'Jerky is lean meat that has been trimmed of fat, cut into strips, and then
dried to prevent spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of
salt, to prevent bacteria from developing on the meat before sufficient
moisture has been removed. The word jerky is derived from the Quechua word
ch'arki which means dried, salted meat All that is needed to produce basic
jerky is a low-temperature drying method, and salt to inhibit bacterial
growth.
Modern manufactured jerky is normally marinated in a seasoned spice rub or
liquid, and dried, dehydrated or smoked with low heat (usually under 70
°C/160 °F). Some product manufacturers finely grind meat, mix in
seasonings, and press the meat-paste into flat shapes prior to drying.
The resulting jerky from the above methods would be a salty and/or savory
snack. However, often a sweet or semi-sweet recipe is used, with sugar
being a major ingredient (in contrast to biltong which is a dried meat
product that utilizes the acid in vinegar rather than salt to inhibit
bacterial growth when drying the meat). Jerky is ready-to-eat and needs no
additional preparation. It can be stored for months without refrigeration.
When the protein to moisture content ratio is correct, the resulting meat
is cured, or preserved.
There are many products in the marketplace which are sold as jerky which
consist of highly processed, chopped and formed meat, rather than
traditional sliced, whole-muscle meat. These products may contain more fat,
but moisture content, like the whole-muscle product, must meet a 0.75 to 1
moisture to protein ratio in the US. Chemical preservatives can be used to
prevent oxidative spoilage, but the moisture to protein ratio prevents
microbial spoilage by low water activity. Many jerky products are very high
in sugar and are therefore very sweet, unlike biltong, which rarely
contains added sugars.
A typical 30 g portion of fresh jerky contains 10–15 g of protein, 1 g of
fat, and 0–3 g of carbohydrates, although some beef jerky can have more
than 65% of protein content. Since traditional jerky recipes use a basic
salt cure, sodium can be a concern for some people. A 30 g serving of jerky
could contain more than 600 mg of sodium, which would be about 30% of the
recommended USRDA'.
[The Hankster says] On the go food. Love it.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Pins and Needles Day'.
Celebrating the opening in 1937 of the play of the same name. It was a
pro-labor musical comedy.It ran for over 1,000 performances. The Pins and
Needles refers to the garment industry.
- From Wikipedia (Pins and Needles):
'Pins and Needles is an idiom revue with a book by Arthur Arent, Marc
Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Charles Friedman, David Gregory, Joseph
Schrank, Arnold B. Horwitt, John Latouche, and Harold Rome and music and
lyrics by Harold Rome. The title Pins and Needles was created by Max
Danish, long-time editor of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
(ILGWU)'s newspaper Justice. It ran on Broadway from 1937 to 1940, was
revived in 1978, and produced again in London in 2010 to positive reviews.
In 2016, the show ran at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City, where
it was produced by the Steinhardt School at New York University. The revue
was also performed in 1938 in the White House for Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt.
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union used the Princess Theatre in
New York City as a meeting hall. The union sponsored an inexpensive revue
with ILGWU workers as the cast and two pianos. Because of their factory
jobs, participants could rehearse only at night and on weekends, and
initial performances were presented only on Friday and Saturday nights. The
original cast was made up of cutters, basters, and sewing machine
operators.
Pins and Needles looked at current events from a pro-union standpoint. It
was a lighthearted look at young workers in a changing society in the
middle of America's most politically engaged city. Skits spoofed everything
from Fascist European dictators to bigots in the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Word-of-mouth was so enthusiastically positive that the cast
abandoned their day jobs and the production expanded to a full performance
schedule of eight shows per week. New songs and skits were introduced every
few months to keep the show topical.
According to John Kenrick, Pins and Needles is the only hit ever produced
by a labor union, and the only time when a group of unknown
non-professionals brought a successful musical to Broadway.".
<> Awareness / Observances:None.
<> Historical events on November 27
* 'In 1895, At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his
last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel
Prize after he dies. .
- From Wikipedia: 'In 1888 Alfred's brother Ludvig died while visiting
Cannes and a French newspaper erroneously published Alfred's obituary. It
condemned him for his invention of dynamite and is said to have brought
about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death. The obituary
stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort (The merchant of death is dead) and
went on to say, Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill
more people faster than ever before, died yesterday. Alfred (who never had
a wife or children) was disappointed with what he read and concerned with
how he would be remembered.
On 27 November 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed
his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to
establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of
nationality. After taxes and bequests to individuals, Nobel's will
allocated 94% of his total assets, 31,225,000 Swedish kronor, to establish
the five Nobel Prizes. This converted to £1,687,837 (GBP) at the time. In
2012, the capital was worth around SEK 3.1 billion (USD 472 million, EUR
337 million), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital,
taking inflation into account.
The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical
science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology the fourth is
for literary work in an ideal direction and the fifth prize is to be given
to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of
international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing
armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.
The formulation for the literary prize being given for a work in an ideal
direction (i idealisk riktning in Swedish), is cryptic and has caused much
confusion. For many years, the Swedish Academy interpreted ideal as
idealistic (idealistisk) and used it as a reason not to give the prize to
important but less romantic authors, such as Henrik Ibsen and Leo Tolstoy.
This interpretation has since been revised, and the prize has been awarded
to, for example, Dario Fo and José Saramago, who do not belong to the camp
of literary idealism.
There was room for interpretation by the bodies he had named for deciding
on the physical sciences and chemistry prizes, given that he had not
consulted them before making the will. In his one-page testament, he
stipulated that the money go to discoveries or inventions in the physical
sciences and to discoveries or improvements in chemistry. He had opened the
door to technological awards, but had not left instructions on how to deal
with the distinction between science and technology. Since the deciding
bodies he had chosen were more concerned with the former, the prizes went
to scientists more often than engineers, technicians or other inventors.
In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-great-nephew, Peter Nobel (b. 1931), asked
the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given in Alfred
Nobel's memory from the five other awards. This request added to the
controversy over whether the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel is actually a legitimate Nobel Prize'.
* 'In 1910, Penn Station opens in NY. The largest train station at the
time. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Pennsylvania Station, also known as New York Penn
Station or Penn Station, is the main intercity railroad station in New York
City. Serving more than 600,000 commuter rail and Amtrak passengers a day,
it is the busiest passenger transportation facility in the Western
Hemisphere. Penn Station is in the midtown area of Manhattan, close to
Herald Square, the Empire State Building, Koreatown, and the Macy's
department store. Entirely underground, it sits beneath Madison Square
Garden, between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue and between 31st and 34th
Streets.
Penn Station has 21 tracks fed by seven tunnels (the Hudson River Tunnels,
the East River Tunnels, and the Empire Connection tunnel). It is at the
center of the Northeast Corridor, a passenger rail line that connects New
York City with Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and intermediate
points. Intercity trains are operated by Amtrak, which owns the station,
while commuter rail services are operated by the Long Island Rail Road
(LIRR) and New Jersey Transit. Connections are available within the complex
to the New York City Subway, and buses. Another important possible
connection could be there with the PATH (rail system), if the old Hilton
Corridor was re=opened.
The original Pennsylvania Station was built from 1901-1910 by the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and featured an ornate marble and granite station
house and train shed inspired by the Gare d'Orsay in Paris (the world's
first electrified rail terminal). After a decline in passenger usage during
the 1950s, the original station was demolished and reconstructed from 1963
to 1969, resulting in the current station. Future plans for Penn Station
include the Gateway Project and the possibility of shifting some trains to
the adjacent Farley Post Office, a building designed by the same architects
as the original 1910 station.
Pennsylvania Station is named for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), its
builder and original tenant, and shares its name with several stations in
other cities. The current facility is the substantially remodeled
underground remnant of a significantly more ornate station building
designed by McKim, Mead, and White and completed in 1910. The original
Pennsylvania Station was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style,
but was demolished in 1963. The station was moved fully underground,
beneath the newly constructed Pennsylvania Plaza complex and Madison Square
Garden arena completed in 1968'.
* 'In 1924, The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade
presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition
started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest Thanksgiving parade in the
United States with America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit (with both
parades being four years younger than the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving
Day Parade in Philadelphia). The three-hour Macy's event is held in New
York City starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thanksgiving Day,
and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
In the 1920s, many of Macy's department store employees were
first-generation European immigrants. Proud of their new American heritage,
they wanted to celebrate the American holiday of Thanksgiving with the type
of festival their parents had loved in Europe.
In 1924, the annual Thanksgiving parade started by Louis Bamberger in
Newark, New Jersey at the Bamberger's store was transferred to New York
City by Macy's. In New York, the employees marched to Macy's flagship store
on 34th Street dressed in vibrant costumes. There were floats, professional
bands and live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo. At the end of
that first parade, as has been the case with every parade since, Santa
Claus was welcomed into Herald Square. At this first parade, however, the
Jolly Old Elf was enthroned on the Macy's balcony at the 34th Street store
entrance, where he was then crowned King of the Kiddies. With an audience
of over 250,000 people, the parade was such a success that Macy's declared
it would become an annual event.
Anthony Tony Frederick Sarg loved to work with marionettes from an early
age. After moving to London to start his own marionette business, Sarg
moved to New York City to perform with his puppets on the street. Macy's
heard about Sarg's talents and asked him to design a window display of a
parade for the store. Sarg's large animal-shaped balloons, produced by the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, replaced the live animals
in 1927. A popular belief was that a balloon version Felix the Cat balloon
was the first ever character balloon in the parade back in 1937, with
Macy's also claiming that too, but Felix actually made his first appearance
in 1931.
At the finale of the 1928 parade, the balloons were released into the sky,
where they unexpectedly burst. The following year, they were redesigned
with safety valves to allow them to float for a few days. Address labels
were sewn into them, so that whoever found and mailed back the discarded
balloon received a gift from Macy's.
Through the 1930s, the Parade continued to grow, with crowds of over one
million people lining the parade route in 1933. The first Mickey Mouse
balloon entered the parade in 1934. The annual festivities were broadcast
on local radio stations in New York City from 1932 to 1941, and resumed in
1945, running through 1951.
The parade was suspended from 1942 to 1944 as a result of World War II,
owing to the need for rubber and helium in the war effort. The parade
resumed in 1945 using the route that it followed until 2008. The parade
became known nationwide after being prominently featured in the 1947 film,
Miracle on 34th Street, which included footage of the 1946 festivities. The
event was first broadcast on network television in 1948. By this point the
event, and Macy's sponsorship of it, were sufficiently well-known to give
rise to the colloquialism Macy's Day Parade Since 1984, the balloons have
been made by Raven Aerostar (a division of Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based
Raven Industries).
Macy's also sponsored the smaller Celebrate the Season Parade in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is held two days after the main event, from
2006 to 2013. Other American cities also have parades held on Thanksgiving,
none of which are run by Macy's. The nation's oldest Thanksgiving parade
(the Gimbels parade, which has had many sponsors over the years, and is now
known as the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade) was first held in
Philadelphia in 1920. Other cities with parades on the holiday include the
McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago, Illinois and parades in
Plymouth, Massachusetts Seattle, Washington Houston, Texas Detroit,
Michigan and Fountain Hills, Arizona. A parade is also held at the two
Disney theme parks, Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort. There
is also a second Thanksgiving balloon parade within the New York
metropolitan area, the UBS balloon parade in Stamford, Connecticut, located
30 miles (48 km) away that parade is held the Sunday before Thanksgiving,
so as to not compete with the parade in New York City and usually does not
duplicate any balloon characters.
The classic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade logo was, with one exception,
last used in 2005. For 2006, a special variant of the logo was used. Every
year since then, a new logo has been used for each parade. The logos
however are seen rarely, if at all, on television as NBC has used its own
logo with the word Macy's in a script typeface and Thanksgiving Day Parade
in a bold font. The logos are assumed to be for use by Macy's only, such as
on the Grandstand tickets and the ID badges worn by parade staff. The
Jackets worn by parade staff still bear the original classic parade logo,
this being the only place where that logo can be found.
New safety measures were incorporated in 2006 to prevent accidents and
balloon-related injuries. One measure taken was the installation of wind
measurement devices to alert parade organizers to any unsafe conditions
that could cause the balloons to behave erratically. In addition, parade
officials implemented a measure to keep the balloons closer to the ground
during windy conditions. If wind speeds are forecast to be higher than 34
miles per hour (55 km/h), all balloons are removed from the parade.
In 2007, the journal Puppetry International published a first person
account of being a balloon handler'.
* 'In 1960, The Shotgun formation is used for the first time in football as
Red Hickey implements it. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The shotgun formation is a formation used by the
offensive team in American and Canadian football. This formation is used
mainly for passing plays, although some teams use it as their base
formation. In the shotgun, instead of the quarterback receiving the snap
from center at the line of scrimmage, he stands farther behind the line of
scrimmage, often five to seven yards back. Sometimes the quarterback will
have a back on one or both sides before the snap, while other times he will
be the lone player in the backfield with everyone spread out as receivers.
The shotgun formation can offer certain advantages. The offensive linemen
have more room to maneuver behind the scrimmage line and form a tighter,
more cohesive oval “pocket” in which the quarterback is protected from
“blitzing” by the defense. If the quarterback has speed, mobility or both,
he can use this formation to scramble before his pass or, to run to an open
field position in the defensive secondary or to the sideline, usually
gaining first-down yardage. The formation also has weaknesses. The defense
knows a pass is more than likely coming up (although some running plays can
be run effectively from the shotgun) and there is a higher risk of a
botched snap than in a simple center/quarterback exchange. If the defense
is planning a pass rush, this formation gives fast defensive players more
open and exposed targets in the offensive backfield, with less cluttered
“blitzing” routes to the quarterback and any other halfback in the
offensive backfield.
Combining elements of the short punt and spread formations (spread in that
it had receivers spread widely instead of close to or behind the interior
line players), it was said to be like a shotgun in spraying receivers
around the field. (The alignment of the players also suggests the shape of
an actual shotgun.) Formations similar or identical to the shotgun used
decades previously would be called names such as spread double wing Short
punt formations (so called because the distance between the snapper and the
ostensible punter is shorter than in long punt formation) do not usually
have as much emphasis on wide receivers.
The shotgun evolved from the single wing and the similar double-wing spread
famed triple threat man Sammy Baugh has claimed that the shotgun was
effectively the same as the version of the double-wing he ran at Texas
Christian University in the 1930s.
In the latter part of the 1940s, the Philadelphia Eagles, under Hall of
Fame Coach Earl Greasy Neale, implemented the shotgun formation in their
offensive attack with quarterback Tommy Thompson.
The formation was named by the man who actually devised it, San Francisco
49ers coach Red Hickey, in 1960. John Brodie was the first NFL shotgun
quarterback, beating out former starter Y. A. Tittle largely because he was
mobile enough to effectively run the formation.
The New York Jets briefly experimented with the shotgun during the middle
of the Joe Namath era to give the bad-kneed and often immobile quarterback
more time to set up plays by placing him deeper in the backfield. But the
formation was not used on a regular basis until the 1975 season, and then
only by the Dallas Cowboys, who used the shotgun frequently with Roger
Staubach at quarterback. The Cowboy shotgun differed from the 49er shotgun
as Staubach generally had a back next to him in the backfield (making runs
possible), where Brodie was normally alone in the backfield.
Since no other NFL teams used the formation during this time, some believed
it had been invented by Tom Landry. Instead, Landry simply dusted off the
old innovation to address a pressing problem: keeping Staubach protected
while an unusually young and inexperienced squad (12 rookies made the 1975
Cowboys roster) jelled. However, three years before Staubach ushered in the
modern era of the shotgun to the NFL, Joe Theismann of the Toronto
Argonauts regularly employed the formation north of the border in the CFL.
The Cowboys ended up in the Super Bowl that season, in no small part due to
its new use of the old formation. The shotgun became a signature formation
for the Cowboys, especially during third down situations.
The shotgun was adopted by more teams throughout the 1980s, and was part of
almost every team's offense in the pass-happy 1990s'.
* 'In 2005, The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens,
France. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all
or part of a person's face using tissue from a cadaver. The world's first
partial face transplant on a living human was carried out in France in
2005. The world's first full face transplant was completed in Spain in
2010. Turkey, France, the United States and Spain (in order of total number
of successful face transplants performed) are considered the leading
countries in the research into the procedure'.
* 'In 2008, The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was taken out of
service after more than 30 years. The ship was launched on September 20,
1967. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as QE2, is
an ocean liner built for the Cunard Line which was operated by Cunard as
both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was
designed for the transatlantic service from her home port of Southampton,
UK, to New York, and was named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen
Elizabeth. She served as the flagship of the line from 1969 until succeeded
by RMS Queen Mary 2 in 2004. Designed in Cunard's then headquarters and
regional offices in Liverpool and Southampton respectively, and built in
Clydebank, Scotland, she was considered the last of the great transatlantic
ocean liners until the construction of the Queen Mary 2 was announced.
Before she was refitted with a diesel power plant in 1986/87, QE2 was also
the last oil-fired passenger steamship to cross the Atlantic in scheduled
liner service. During almost forty years of service, Queen Elizabeth 2
undertook regular world cruises and later operated predominantly as a
cruise ship, sailing out of Southampton, England. QE2 had no running mate
and never ran a year-round weekly transatlantic express service to New
York. QE2 did, however, continue the Cunard tradition of regular scheduled
transatlantic crossings every year of her service life. QE2 was never given
a Royal Mail Ship designation, instead carrying the SS and later MV or MS
prefixes in official documents.
QE2 retired from active Cunard service on 27 November 2008. She was
acquired by Istithmar, the private equity arm of Dubai World, which planned
to begin conversion of the vessel to a 500-room floating hotel moored at
the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai. The 2008 financial crisis however intervened and
the ship remains laid up at Port Rashid. Subsequent conversion plans were
announced by Istithmar in 2012 and by the Oceanic Group in 2013 but these
both stalled. As of January 2016 the ship remains laid up in Dubai while
the port operator claimed that there were future plans for the ship and no
intent to scrap her'.
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National Alzheimer's Disease Month
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Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was
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to the Roman calendar.
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the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere
is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice
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