| Wednesday, January 7, 2009 |
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| Following the Recipe |
SpotlightThe first cookbook to use standardized measurements in its recipes, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, was published 110 years ago today. Edited by Fannie Farmer, the book became one of America's favorite cookbooks and was republished as The Fanny Farmer Cookbook. When a stroke kept her from attending college, Fannie Farmer began to cook at home. She entered the Boston Cooking School, eventually becoming the school's director and later founding her own school of cookery.
Quote"I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent."
Question of the DayWhat is an emulsion in cooking?
An emulsion is when fat molecules bond to water molecules. A common example of this is in mayonnaise, where the fat in egg yolks bonds to the water in vinegar... more
Word of the dayCartesian coordinates
[for Rene Descartes], system for representing the relative positions of points in a plane or in space. In a plane, the point P is specified by the pair of numbers (x,y) representing the distances of the point from two intersecting straight lines, referred to as the x-axis and the y-axis. The point of intersection of these axes, which are called the coordinate axes, is known as the origin. In rectangular coordinates, the type most often used, the axes are taken to be perpendicular, with the x-axis horizontal and the y-axis vertical...
Alliteration and its relatives, consonance and assonance, go back to Old English and earlier. It seems we love to play with the sounds of our phrases. This week we'll look at some phrases that we just like the sound of.
Today's History
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- Galilean moons: Jupiter's moons were first observed by Galileo; Simon Marius, however, named them — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, after the lovers of Zeus (1610)
- Marian Anderson: the contralto became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House (1955)
- Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's regime was toppled when Vietnam took Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh (1979)
Today's Birthdays
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- Millard Fillmore (1800-1874): 13th POTUS
- Adolph Zukor (1873-1976): film mogul; also, shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 [O.S.]-1975)
- Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000): virtuoso flautist; also, musicians Henry Allen (1908-1967), Kenny Loggins (61) and Marshall Chapman (60)
- William Peter Blatty (81): Oscar-winning screenwriter, The Exorcist; writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was also born on this date
- Nicolas Cage (45): Oscar winner for Leaving Las Vegas; other screen personalities born on this date include David Caruso (53), Katie Couric (52), and Liam Aiken and Camryn Grimes (both 19)
- Natalie Gulbis (26): the LPGA golfer who's also a swimsuit model
