22 • March 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Musings and Munchies


soſt “sorbet” which, at super- formal banquets, is served in tiny glasses to guests between courses of a lengthy menu “to clear the palate!” A guest could fully enjoy fi ne dishes to fol- low. Can this “strengthened” version of lemonade serve as a cure for insomnia too? Funny tips of advice for


proper etiquette in 1887: “Drink gently, and do not pour it down your throat like water turned out of a pitcher!” One was told to eat corn “with one hand only.” “On no account suck one’s fi nger aſt er it.” A rule my family could never have followed. Happy memo- ries of buttery baby faces…and fi ngers! Are there fi ſt y diff erent tv cooking shows? Many of us try to escape the horrors of tv news plus politics these days. I am grateful family introduced me to a funny “foodie” show masterminded by comic actor/ writer Mo Rocca that locally appears on Cooking CH 232. “My Grandmother’s Ravioli.”


Maurice Alberto Rocca, age 47, sports gray wavy hair, wears glasses, oſt en bow ties. Has a warm, perpetual adolescent, charming personality.


His


quest: to learn to cook. Missing his childhood joy of eating his grandma’s perfect ravioli, Mo visits grandparents across the country to learn how to pre- pare their favorite dishes and partakes in their fam- ily dinners. Clever and completely delightful. T e episode in which Mo visits a Portug- ese grandmother in Peabody, Mas- sachusetts had us laughing out loud. Mrs. Spac- er, about 89 years young, has high energy and an indescribable “potty-mouth” plus great cooking skills. T e delicious recipes are available on “www.cookingchannel.tv” Episodes sell on Amazon.


Penalty Confusing You? We’ve Got the Answers!


Health Care Tax My search to understand cre-


ativity is never-ending. Patricia Kuhl, an eminent linguist work- ing out of Seattle, presented a TED presentation lately that is fascinating. Check out her fi ndings: “Babies and children are


geniuses until they turn seven, and then there’s a sys- temic decline in the ability to learn a new language. Scien- tists in laboratories all over the world are trying to fi gure out why it works this way.” Kuhl maintains that “babies are the only real world citi- zens.”–Something worth fol-


lowing certainly. From February through May


in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, in the heart of the Netherlands, they are enthusiastically cel- ebrating the 500th Anniver- sary of the painter Hierony- mus Bosch. An international cultural event, it took twelve years to prepare. T e major presentation is at the Noord- brabants Museum. T e painter


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Bosch inspired Pieter Breughel, MC Escher, Salvador Dali and the British artist, Leonora Car- rington. Bosch’s paintings al- ways arouse discussions about his originality. T ey are quizzi- cal and confounding. Happy 149th birthday March


20th, Jerome Myers, an Ameri- can artist and writer who moved from Virginia to become a New York City treasured artist. He desired only to paint “the ur- ban landscape


and people.”


Extremely compassionate and an encouraging teacher too, his output was prolifi c. Also, a Happy 149th birthday


March 27th, to the acclaimed Italian conductor, Arturo To- scanini. Besides serving as mu- sic director of the Met Opera in NYC and La Scala Milan, he was the fi rst of NBC Sympho- ny.


I treasure his recordings-


-especially the memory of him humming right along while conducting passionately during NY Philharmonic performanc- es in the 1950s. Unforgettable and delightful. Say…happy bunny time and go easy on jelly beans! ~Ellie


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into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx


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JOKES & Humor # 8 A guy joins a monastery and takes a vow of silence, though he’s allowed to say two words every seven years. After the fi rst seven years, the elders bring him in and ask for his two words. “Cold fl oors,” he says. They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him back in and ask for his two words. “Bad food,” he says. They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him in for his two words. “I quit,” he says. “I’m not surprised in the least,” says the head monk. “You’ve done nothing but complain since you got here.”


Weird Facts & Fun Trivia -8


The Pennsylvania Dutch supposedly introduced the Easter egg and the Easter Bunny to America. Originally they would also bake a big cookie rabbit in the act of laying an egg, until the squeamish objected.


The kiwano is a large lemon- shaped fruit, orange in color with stubby horns or spikes, native to southern and cen- tral Africa, and introduced to Australia and New Zealand in the early 20th century.


A Sonoma County Tradition! “Turkey always and turkey all ways!”


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