This recipe is an outtake from The Unofficial Yellowstone Cookbook.

https://www.amazon.com/Unofficial-Yellowstone-Cookbook-Recipes-Inspired/dp/1956403205/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1N8Z29890R8Q1&keywords=jackie+alpers&qid=1683553016&sprefix=%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

Marius "Jäger" Streicher headcanons, I may or may not be completely in love with him...

🥃 Jäger is a whisky drinker. It's his drink of choice, no ice needed. He still does drink beer but he'd rather have a glass of whisky than a bottle of beer. (His favourite whiskey is Yellowstone, yes it's absolutely self-indulgent)

🚗 He drives a shitbox. I'm talking like an old ass 80's Buick, or something similar. Though he's definitely partial to German cars (he's a patriot, what can I say), def has a Volkswagen or an Audi. He definitely knows which Audi models are the most reliable. (He drives a Volkswagen Scirocco Mk 2, it's his pride and joy, I don't make the rules)

🎶 Listens to mainly German rock/rock in general. Here's a playlist that I find accurate to my headcanon of his music taste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29N16n6eHU6P2hExqaa4xY?si=FFtI6gEKSqW9ZPF36OZINg

🪛 This is based off of canon, but he's 100% a workaholic. His work is his hobby. He literally mentions that spending his time off in the lab is like a dream vacation to him. He feels he needs to be productive all the time, he doesn't really like "relaxing" that much. His time to relax is when he's either learning something new or working.

🖌️ He is insanely good at drawing machinery. He doesn't consider himself to be an artist, but he is really really good at drawing anything mechanical. He draws cars and car engines for fun, he draws his own prototypes and inventions for his patents and blueprints. Expect him to have a notebook full of messy and clean drawings of cars, helicopters, random parts he just felt like drawing. He mainly draws to see things from a different perspective and to learn.

🌯 He doesn't cook for himself often, but when he does it's absolutely delicious. Jäger knows how to cook! He's a banger cook, too. He only has a solid few cookbooks at home that he uses, he always tries something different but it's always from those three books.

I'm in the middle of constructing a soap opera (it's only an element of my story) and am looking for a unique world to put it into (i.e. Dallas is oil, Falcon Crest is wine, Grey's Anatomy is medicine), and am having a hard time brainstorming something that's: 1. compelling to me, 2. unique, 3. something I can write honestly. Any ideas?

Falcon Crest or Grey's Anatomy Style Soap Opera

Evening soap operas like Dallas, Falcon Crest, Grey's Anatomy, Empire, East Enders, This is Us, The Wonder Years, and Yellowstone all tend to revolve around one of the following:

-- an industrial empire (and the family that runs it)

-- a compelling situation (involving a variety of people)

Definition of "Industry" - An industry refers to a group of businesses that produce or sell the same or similar products or provide the same or similar services. Some examples of industries would be car manufacturing, book publishing, wedding-related products, car manufacturing, and farming.

Definition of "Compelling Situation" - For the sake of this ask, a compelling situation refers to any ongoing activity, event, or circumstances involving multiple people. Some examples of situations would be medical students doing their clinicals; a workplace such as an office, bar, restaurant, or record store; a fire department or police department, a big family, or a group of people such as a book club or homeowner's association.

Here are some steps to help you brainstorm your own evening soap opera style story:

1 - Brainstorm Industries - The world is made up of a huge variety of industries. Almost everything in your life that is mass produced has an industry behind it: video games, coffee, paper towels, cookbooks, clothing and fashion, makeup, shoes... Think about some things that interest you and consider the industries behind them. You can also look at the town or region where you live and see what industries are important there, or you can look at the industries that are important in other places that interest you. Make a list of industries that sound interesting to you, then start researching them to learn a little bit about them. See which ones might provide an interesting backdrop for your soap opera.

2 - Brainstorm Situations - There are all sorts of interesting situations happening all around you and all over the world. There are people working today at an animal rescue, there are people working together in a nail salon, there are teachers socializing and supporting each other in a teacher's lounge, there are auto mechanics taking a break to celebrate their boss's birthday, there are people meeting to discuss a book or to plan a charity event... Think about the different situations happening around you or in the world in general. Look through current events and local news to see if you can spot some different situations that might be interesting. Think about the places you go, the activities you enjoy, the businesses and services you use, etc., and think about the groups of people behind them. Make a list of interesting situations and do a little research into them to see if any might make for an interesting backdrop for your soap opera.

3 - Choosing and Fleshing Out - Once you've chosen an industry or situation as the backdrop for your soap opera, start doing deeper research and then flesh out the family or group of people behind it. If you're choosing to go with an industry, create the company that will be at the heart of your story. What is it called? What do the manufacture or what service do they provide? When was this company created and who created it? What is the family who currently runs the company? Who is in charge and who is next in line for leadership? Who is their competition or opposition? Who are the different people who fill the necessary roles in this company? What sorts of industrial and familial drama might they face on a daily and periodical basis? What is daily life like for this family? What personal and internal conflicts increase the drama? If you've chosen a situation, what is the situation and who is in charge? What are the different roles and who fills them? What do they do on a daily basis? What are the unique and interesting things that this group deals with on a daily or periodic basis? What personal and internal conflicts increase the drama?

Have fun with your story!

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I got a new cookbook tonight 😊. Which means I have to make a recipe out of it in the next week. Following the theme of recent cookbooks I got. This one is from the show Yellowstone.

HIGHLIGHTS FOR ABC NEWS’ ‘GMA3: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW,’ JAN. 30-FEB. 3

The following report highlights the programming of ABC’s “GMA3: What You Need to Know” during the week of Jan. 30 - Feb. 3. “GMA3: What You Need to Know” is a one-hour program co-anchored by Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, with Dr. Jennifer Ashton as chief medical correspondent. The news program airs weekdays at 1:00 p.m. EST | 12:00 p.m. CST on ABC, and 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EST on ABC News Live.

Highlights of the week include the following:

Monday, Jan. 30 — “GMA3” hosts music artist and cancer survivor Madame Who; Money Monday with author and host of ABC’s “Shark Tank” Daymond John; registered dietitian and nutritionist Maya Feller with a cooking demo from her new cookbook (“Eating from Our Roots”); Emmy® winner Larry Wilmore announces the nominees for this year’s Awards for Excellence in Audio

Tuesday, Jan. 31 — “GMA3” features a pair of Rhode Island state lawmakers who overcame criminal past; purpose coach, podcast host and author Jay Shetty on new book (“8 Rules of Love); “GMA3” contributor Rocsi Diaz talks eco-friendly Super Bowl party planning with author Kathryn Kellogg (“101 Ways to Go Zero Waste”); actress Kyla Pratt talks new Disney+ series (“The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder”)

Wednesday, Feb. 1 — “GMA3” spotlights non-profit Ivy League Mentoring; “ABC News Live Prime” anchor Linsey Davis discusses her new children’s book (“The Smallest Spot of a Dot”); actor Michael Urie on new Apple TV show (“Shrinking”); Deals and Steals with ABC e-commerce editor Tory Johnson

Thursday, Feb. 2 — “GMA3” showcases a fifth-grade teacher who doubles as a rapper; ABC News multiplatform reporter Ike Ejiochi shares story of a windfall library donation; co-hosts of ABC’s “The Parent Test” Ali Wentworth and Dr. Adolph Brown III; Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek discuss new film (“Magic Mike’s Last Dance”)

Friday, Feb. 3 — “GMA3” features Rev. Edwin Leahy; ABC News reporter Morgan Norwood on affordable childcare shortage; Faith Friday features authors Tanya Rad and Raquelle Stevens (“The Sunshine Mind”); actress Julia Schlaepfer on new “Yellowstone” prequel (“1923”)

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for the writing challenge: 8, 16, 21

blessings be upon your house, etc 🙏 (I have been reading a lot of Pratchett lately)

8. which of your own projects have shaped your writing the most? in what way?

oooh dyknow what I reckon it's actually To Kingdom Come, because I was already into language barriers and gratuitous worldbuilding, but I really went in on the language stuff in that one, especially wrt conveying a language barrier without coming up with more than a few words in a made-up language. figuring out how much I could mess around with sentence structure and word order to make it obvious that those things were different in this other language, but without taking it to the point that it became unreadable nonsense, was even more fun than I'd expected, and two of my other big WIP ideas (one original, even) now also involve worldbuilding turning on the point of language barriers. the problem is that I am not actually any good in any language but English, and the idea of making a language of my own is overwhelming.

16. to what extent do you research for your writing?

well I don't write straight historical fic precisely because the urge to over-research would be too strong and it would drag me to a stop. I can do historical if it's got fantastical elements, because then I can fudge things and not want to scream at myself for inaccuracies I don't even know exist, but am certain are there. I'm trying to let things go more, in that regard. I just like things to be right! so I end up doing shit like looking up ancient cookbooks to get an idea of what people would be eating at a certain point in time, or Google Mapping obscure locations to describe them accurately, or using the Wayback Machine to check the prices at a certain Yellowstone National Park campsite in the year 2008! which I'm sure no one would care about! but what if there's a reader who'd been to Yellowstone in 2008 and knew I was wrong!? these thoughts torment me and drive me to research things beyond the necessary extent.

21. what are the most important facets of creating a character, to you?

this is a cruel question to ask someone who mainly writes with other people's characters, and you know it! I guess internal logic? and history. a person is only their memories and experiences, so I have to know at least some of that before a character starts to make sense, usually. also I suppose knowing what they want, if anything, and what their sense of humour is like, if they have one.

Arplis - News: 15 decor items to spruce up your home for spring

— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Spring is all about blossoming, new beginnings, and opening up the windows to let fresh air in. I look forward to a deep clean with a fresh playlist around this time every year, and things feel a bit more hopeful when the sun seems to be shining more—at least here in the Midwest. But, even if spring hasn’t quite gotten to your home yet, there are plenty of ways to spruce up your space with spring home decor. From fresh-smelling candles to a new doormat, these home decor items are a surefire way to make your space anew. So toss your blankets in the wash, grab an extra bag of soil, pour some tea, and get ready to freshen up your home for the upcoming season. 1. A candle to set the mood for the season Credit: Boy Smells Start by making your home smell like fresh fruits and veggies. Boy Smells candles have a cult following, and with good reason—they smell so good. I gifted one to my roommate and it brings a smile to my face every time she lights it. It’s still burning now several months later. To get your bedroom or living area ready for spring, I recommend pickup the Gardener scent. This candle is made of coconut wax and beeswax and combines notes of orange tree bark, tomato juice, honeysuckle nectar, petitgrain, and white tea to make the perfect aroma for those early spring days. Get the Boy Smells Gardner Candle from Nordstrom for $32 2. A doormat that matches your personality Credit: Olive Creative Co. Show your guests what to expect with a sassy or sweet doormat. With vaccines becoming readily available, we might be able to flex our hosting and entertaining muscles soon. So, now is the time to make sure your doormat is ready to welcome people into your home or make anyone passing by crack a smile. I’m a big fan of the “You Better Have Pizza” mat from Olive Creative Co. It’s humorous and lighthearted, and it’s perfect for a sleepover or getting pizza delivered. If that one isn’t your speed, check out other options like doormats that say “Homebody” or “Hey Sunshine.” Get the Olive Creative Co. “You Better Have Pizza” doormat from Esty for $45 3. Fresh foliage in the shower Credit: CAFlowerGrowers Make your shower feel like a spa. Whether you like to shower in the morning or take a late-night bath, a fresh bunch of eucalyptus in the bathroom will make your home feel like a spa. I love seeing the burst of green hanging in the shower, and the steam from hot water helps release the calming eucalyptus scent. Adding a bunch of the plant to your shower will help you start the day refreshed and unwind after a long day. Get the CA Flower Growers Large Fresh Shower Eucalyptus Bunch from Etsy for $23.49 4. Adventure-inspired candles Credit: Paddywax Match your itinerary with a new scent. While you’re planning your upcoming road trips, camping outings, and travel plans, consider getting inspired with a candle formulated after National Parks. The candle collection from Paddywax is earthy, textured, naturally fragrant, and a perfect aesthetic fit for your next visit. You can even strike anywhere-matches right on the vessel to make the candle feel like a blazing campfire. Pick your favorite park from some of the best sights and smells our nation has to offer: Glacier, Acadia, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Olympic, and the Great Smoky Mountains. Get the Parks Candles from Paddywax for $34 5. Fresh towels Credit: Nordstrom Few things are as refreshing as plush, new towels. Springtime means spring cleaning, and for some people that includes getting rid of their old, crusty bathroom towels and replacing them with fresh ones. The Hydrocotton towels from Nordstrom are the perfect replacement or can be added to your current rotation. The 100-percent cotton material is ultra-soft and ultra-absorbent providing gentle and thorough drying. Get both the bath towel and the hand towel to give your body and your hands the VIP drying experience. Get the Nordstrom Hydrocotton Bath Sheet from Nordstrom for $55 Get the Nordstrom Hydrocotton Hand Towel from Nordstrom for $19 6. Wicker baskets Credit: QVC Store your blankets, toys, or plants in these gorgeous baskets. With spring comes warmer weather, meaning it's time to put away all the excess pillows and blankets you brought out for the colder months. These wicker baskets are the perfect combination of stylish and functional, allowing you to store those blankets close by when you do get chilly instead of searching for the plastic bin in your basement stuffed them in. There’s also something about the wicker material that's reminiscent of spending time outside. Get the Wicker Basket Set from QVC for $48 7. 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The throw comes in natural colors that will complement midcentury, bohemian, industrial, and minimalist decor. Get the Aden Tufted Throw Blanket from Urban Outfitters for $69 10. A hammock chair Credit: Highwild Add this comfy chair to your porch or backyard. Warmer weather means more opportunities to sit outside on your front porch or in your backyard. When the time comes, you’ll want to be prepared with a comfortable place to sit like this personal hammock chair swing. This is the perfect spot to bask in the sun and let time pass you buy as you read and sip on an iced tea or write in your journal. If you don’t have any porch or yard space, don't worry. You can still enjoy this hammock. It’s easy to move and can be hung from a tree in a park or indoors to turn your room into a zen oasis. Get the Hanging Rope Hammock Chair from Amazon for $42.99 11. Bright, versatile dishcloths Credit: Anthropologie Add some color to your picnic basket. I love kitchen items, especially multi-purpose ones. I don’t use paper towels in order to reduce waste and be more sustainable, so I have a large collection of tea towels and dishcloths for cleaning, eating, and cooking. This six-pack of dishcloths is bright and charming. You can use them to dry dishes, wipe down counters, dust surfaces, and keep your hands clean during picnics. I can’t recommend these enough, and reviewers agree that they are of great quality and just as vibrant as the photos show. Get the Woven Geo Dishcloths, 6 Pack from Anthropologie for $24 12. A whimsical recipe card tin Credit: Rifle Paper Co. Keep your recipes in one place. Though I have an extensive Pinterest board of recipes, nothing compares to a handwritten recipe card. I have a few from my grandma and mom’s collection, and I’ve started to write my go-to recipes out on large index cards as well. The cards are easier to keep on the counter than my laptop or a cookbook, and you can laminate them to make them last. But you’ll need a place to store your recipes, and no tin is better than the floral ones from Rifle Paper Co. The tins are practical and whimsical, and if you’re a fan of the pattern you can match it with other accessories like your apron, phone case, and more. Get the Recipe Tin from Rifle Paper Co. for $34 13. Air plants Credit: The Sill You can display air plants any way you like. Air plants are little pops of life that you can display in a variety of ways. You can place them in glass globes on the wall, in a basket or tray on your coffee table, or add them as accents to your bookshelves. They don’t take much work, just a weekly soak to keep them perky. They’re a great alternative to potted plants if you don’t have much space or have pets who dig in the soil. This pack of six air plants is only $30, and the plants range in size so you can mix and match them as you decorate. Get the Air Plant Assortment from The Sill for $30 14. A bag for pretty much everything Credit: Urban Outfitters Keep this bag right by the door. Market bags are pretty popular and you’ve probably seen your favorite influencers carrying one as a purse or grocery bag. They’re common in zero-waste bundles as well, and for good reason. A good market bag can be used to carry fresh produce, flowers, or your daily essentials like your water bottle, purse, and phone. In addition to being transporting your goods, you can use it to store produce once you get home by hanging it a nail or hook or store it in the fridge. This bag can also be folded up to fit into a tiny purse so you’re prepared for any shopping emergency. Get the To-Go Market Bag from Urban Outfitters for $9 15. A tray to improve your baths Credit: Royal Craft Wood Take longer baths with a tray for your wine and books. I love taking a bath to wind down, especially since Daylight Saving Time has me a bit off my routine. Though I love relaxing, I tend to get bored and prop up my laptop to watch a TV show or awkwardly hunch to read a book. If you’re in the same boat, upgrade your baths with a tray that’s made to hold all your things. A mug of tea or glass of wine can sit in the coaster area. You can place a candle, lotions, face masks, essential oils, a vase of flowers, or bath salts to keep everything you use within reach. And the tray has several ridges to keep your phone, book, or tablet in place (and dry). Get the Bathtub Caddy Tray from Amazon for $49.97 The product experts at Reviewed have all your shopping needs covered. Follow Reviewed on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the latest deals, product reviews, and more. 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The Madness of Punch

the series read as follows:

Superman … Monday … Cheezy Pouffs … Bacon … Stumbling … Trail Mix …  Punch … Friday … Preparation … Uncle Mudler … Normal … Backseat … Mudler-sense … The FBI … Unthinkable … Patience … Elephant Jokes … Cooking … Rickety Tables … Mr. Skimmer … Bert and Ernie … Midnight Confessions … The Moon … Bright Sunshine … Graying Skies … Darkened Night … Possibilities … A Thing with You … Humming and Thrumming ... Warped Cosmology

@today-in-fic

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MRI taken, fish fed, email answered, thumbs twiddled, Mulder phoned, brain picked by aforementioned phone call, groceries shopped for and mother retrieved, they headed to the appointment.

An hour later, they settled in the car, quiet for a moment before Maggie spoke ... 

amusement lacing every word that followed, “so, basically, you have polyps in your sinuses and vigorous sex will break the blood vessels in your nasal cavity?”

This was possibly worse than when she innocently asked her mother, after hearing Bill talking to one of his friends, what 69’ing was, “I should have left you in the car.”

“Oh, no, dear. Then I would have nothing to share at the card party Thursday.”

“Don’t make me make you walk home.”

Maggie moved her hand to Scully’s arm, squeezing it tightly, “honey, believe me when I say I am overjoyed to hear that the worse things you have are fatty growths and too much sex.” Moving on, she clicked her seatbelt, “now, do you think we have time for milkshakes before you need to leave for the airport?”

Key in ignition, dignity thrown out the window, Scully grinned the grin of someone with fatty growths and too much sex, “plenty of time.”

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Mulder collapsed into guffawing giggles that left him gasping for air, “oh … good … God … shit, I can’t breathe … I would have given almost anything to have seen that.”

She shoved his feet over to make room so she could sit on the already creaking bed, “it was an experience but who really cares as long as that’s what it is. I’ll get the polyps taken care of when we get back and we’ll just have to have less vessel-breaking sex in the future.”

This sent him right back into laughter the likes of which finally had her putting her hand over his mouth, trying to get him to shut up given it was after 11pm local time and they were going to get thrown out of the dump that was ‘MeadowLodge Suits: Drive up, sleep in, get out’ if they didn’t quiet down. Yawning while she waited for him to calm, “by the way, I like that you didn’t even attempt to get two rooms, then lie about sharing.”

“Skinner isn’t an idiot. He’ll keep it quiet though and Dennis down in billing has been asking about us for years so he’ll shut up as well. Why waste money when we don’t have to?”

“Then why didn’t we stay at a better hotel with all this money we’re going to save?”

Mulder looked around the aesthetically unappealing mustard yellow décor, “what? You don’t like this?”

Moving to pull on pajamas, “just once, you’re going to let me book the hotel.” Once dressed, Mulder watching intently the whole 30 second process, she returned to the bed, “give me the five minute rundown, please.”

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Case done by the following Monday afternoon, Skinner shipped them to Wyoming, mosquitoes the size of Scully eating her alive while they tramped the outskirts of Yellowstone, looking for a bank robber attempting to hide in the woods. At least this time, Mulder didn’t mention a nice trip to the forest.

As an aside, they traveled over the Old Faithful and shared a pizza in view of the geyser, Mulder, for what it was worth, snapping a picture of the top of the spout so he could show people how tall it was. Scully looked at him until he cracked, “what? I want to see just how many people give me that look before they either laugh me into oblivion or gently correct me in what they hope is the nicest voice possible.”

“You’re special, Mulder, you know that?”

Ringing his arm around her neck, he smiled as he kissed her temple, “just ‘cause I’ve got you.”

&&&&&&&&&

And suddenly it was the end of July, Skinner finally letting them home after varying degrees of cases and assholes and scary type fellows. Walking into Mulder’s apartment, he dropped their bags to the ground and turned to her, “it’s Thursday, Scully.”

“It is Thursday.”

“You know what Thursday is.”

“The day after Wednesday, last I checked.”

He could give her the Look like nobody’s business and she loved it, “I need some Punch.”

Shaking her head, she moved towards the bathroom, “call Mom and see when the festivities are happening.”

And he did and it was good.

In less than an hour, after a quick shower together and some general fooling around, which they had chosen not to do while on cases, they pulled up to Maggie’s, Mulder rushing up the walk and inside, leaving Scully behind to lock the car and be amused.

She found him breathing deeply the scent of homemade cooking and motherly love, grinning like the proverbial idiot. Maggie was already walking slowly towards the pair, boots gone, braces on, crutches present. Mulder hugged her the moment he could, Scully following soon after, “how are the ankles?”

Looking at her daughter, “it feels strange and I’m nervous without the boots but the end is in sight and that’s something.”

All moving into the kitchen, the ladies greeted them as if returning from a three-month long expedition, Betty going as far as declaring how much they’ve grown since they last saw them. Scully hugged her, “Mulder needs punch.”

With a grin, “we already have two glasses ready and places for you at the table.”

Mulder studied the seating arrangement, “why are we not next to each other?”

Janet, piping in as she shuffled Roswell cards courtesy of Mulder’s kitschy souvenir binge on vacation, “because, from what I recall, the punch makes her floppy and we need someone who can handle their liquor to catch her.” Pointing the deck at him, “that, my friend, is not you.”

He really couldn’t argue.

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Scully was asleep on the table by 9:18pm, head resting comfortably on the wood surface, the game happening around her, Lillian tucking her hair out of the way whenever it drifted across the playing area.

Mulder, on the other hand, somehow managed to hold total punch annihilation at bay even though total inebriation still occurred, his plan of one gulp of water for every two sips of punch failing miserably. His tongue was blue as midnight, which he continually shared roughly every 5 minutes and Betty, beside him, had to keep gently nudging his cards closer to his chest so the entire table, at least, couldn’t see them. When that round had finished, she turned to him, “Fox, would you like some more pie?”

With an enthusiastic nod, he moved to get it himself but Maggie held his arm while Betty retrieved the dessert. Thanking everyone at the table for their part in pie presentation, he took his first bite, waving his fork in Maggie’s direction, “she makes the best pies.”

Maggie caught the fork before it went in her eye, returning it and the attached hand to the table, “Janet made this one.”

“Then Janet makes the best pies, too.” Another bite later, “Scully doesn’t like pie. I don’t understand. I mean, she keeps trying pies but she just doesn’t like them. I’ve tried her with apple pie and cherry pie and peach pie and pumpkin pie and chocolate pie and I mean, my God, the amount of pie I’ve wasted on that woman is astounding. Peanut butter pie and blueberry pie and every time, she just takes a bite and looks like she’s gonna die and then slides it over to me to finish.” Turning towards Maggie again with the fork, “what did you do to her as a child? Did you force feed her rhubard pie or mincemeat or something? How could you raise a kid who doesn’t like pie?” Maggie tried to answer, defend her dessert choices for the past 34 years but never got past taking in a breath before he plowed ahead, re-addressing the table, Scully’s prone head and the air in general, “I love pie. Any kind of pie. My sister Sam used to make pretend pie and she always knew I’d eat it ‘cause she called it pie. She’d serve it up in her tea set, make me sit in that damn little chair and scoop up forkfuls of fake pie. At least she’d serve fake ice tea with it so that was something. She would line up her stuffed animals and dolls and just go down the line, feeding everybody pretend pie and pretend cookies and fake cake … once she made a pretend pot roast for us but then took it away ‘cause she said she’d accidently burned it and it tasted funny.” Taking a deeper swig of his Punch, “she stopped having her tea parties about a year before she disappeared but even on that last day, that afternoon, before we had the fight about the TV and before she floated in the air, she made a real pie for me … she made it with Oreos she’d smashed up and pressed into a pie pan and put frosting on as filling. She cut it and served it and brought me a glass of ice tea and told me she’d make me real pies from now on because she was going to be a chef and learn how to make all the pies for real so she’d always have something I’d like to eat.”

The table, right down the line, Maggie, Janet, Lillian, Betty, Ellie and Ruth, all had to fight various stages of sighs and sympathy, all wanting to hug Mulder tightly, all wanting to make the life of their Fox better.

He didn’t notice any of it, fork feeding himself another mouthful, “I think she would have been a good cook. She loved reading cookbooks. She’d get up on a stool when our mother was gone and study the buttons and dials on the stove, look inside the oven, make me come explain to her how the gas to the burners worked. She is irritating as hell sometimes but for a little sister, she’s not too bad.”

No one corrected his present tense usage for his long-gone sibling but Ellie quietly scooted his cup away as he continued, “I think that when Scully and I have a kid, I’ll buy her a tea set and explain the stove to her, feed her all kinds of pretend pie and see if maybe she wants to be a chef.” Aiming for the third time at an astonished Maggie, “you’ll have to teach her how to make meatloaf and pie and lasagna but,” swinging the fork around to Betty, “you will not be teaching her how to make the Punch. You will make the Punch and I will drink the Punch but even when she gets to be 40 or 80 years old, she will never be old enough to see the Punch.”

Looking around at the women, he grinned a blue-tooth smile, “why are we not playing? Did I win?” Glancing from the fork in his hand to the near empty plate in front of him, “I like pie.”

Twenty minutes later and after another piece of pie, sans diatribe, Mulder gave into annihilation, entire body dropping slowly against Betty, his last words being, “I should get Scully home to bed.”

Betty, supporting his dead weight admirably, gestured for assistance and soon, FoxNDana were both snoring peacefully on the table. Maggie took them both in, her glance sliding between, then to her cohorts, “how should we get them somewhere to sleep for the night?”

Studying the situation, Ellie suggested they start with Mulder. It took all of them to get him up, move him, pull down the sheets on the adjacent bedroom, lay him down, set an hopefully unnecessary wastebasket by the side of the mattress, be amused by his arm searching for Scully.

Returning to the kitchen, they expected to move Scully next but instead, found her sitting up in her chair, tears evident on her cheeks, the saddest look on her face they’d ever seen. Maggie held still on her crutches, “Dana?”

Scully sniffed hard, swiping her cheeks but not answering until Maggie asked when she’d woken up, if everything was okay, to which she finally responded, “I woke up when you asked him if he wanted pie.”

The ladies had a concrete-enough, vague notion of Scully’s personal life, complete with abduction, infertility and gunshot scars to collectively and quietly gather bags and shoes, calling hushed goodbyes while Scully sat there, guilt-laden at having chased away her mother’s friends with her insanity. Once the front door shut and Maggie returned to her, Scully waited for the inevitable, ‘what’s wrong’ but instead received a gently hand to her back and a quiet, “did you know he wanted to have a daughter with you?”

Amid Tension With White Fishermen, Indigenous Coalition Buys Entire Nova Scotia Seafood Supplier

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First Nations coalition reaches landmark deal to become co-owners of Clearwater Seafoods

One of North America’s largest seafood suppliers is being acquired in part by a coalition of Miꞌkmaq First Nations in what is being called a “historic” deal that will facilitate the largest investment in the Canadian seafood industry by an Indigenous group so far.

The group of Miꞌkmaq First Nations — led by Membertou First Nation and Miawpukek First Nation — in partnership with Canadian specialty food company Premium Brands, are purchasing Halifax, Nova Scotia-based shellfish supplier Clearwater Seafoods for $1 billion Canadian dollars ($765.8 million USD).

“This deal is a transformational moment for all participating communities,” Membertou Chief Terry Paul, who led the deal on the Miꞌkmaq side, told CBC News. “We’re a player now. In order to be in business, you first have to play the game … You have to play to win, and we won.”

Paul told CTV News that the plan is to eventually integrate Indigenous workers into Clearwater Seafoods and to create an enduring legacy for Miꞌkmaq communities, leading to a positive economic impact for generations to come.

The deal has attracted criticism from non-Indigenous commercial fishermen in Nova Scotia, who say that Clearwater Seafoods has monopolized the industry, as the company holds all the licenses for the offshore deep-water lobster fishing area known as LFA 41. Per the Globe and Mail, tensions between non-Indigenous fishermen and Miꞌkmaq fishermen over Indigenous fishing outside of the federally regulated season “boiled over” in October when non-Indigenous fishermen destroyed Miꞌkmaq fishermen’s catch. Shortly thereafter, one Indigenous lobster pound was suspiciously burned to the ground.

Halifax-based Miꞌkmaq historian Dan Paul told the Globe and Mail that the deal is a step in the right direction for economic independence for the region’s Indigenous people. “The Miꞌkmaq lost their livelihood when the Europeans invaded, and now they’re on the cusp of reclaiming it,” he said.

And in other news…

Romaine lettuce is possibly linked to a multi-state E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 12 people. Romaine sold under the name Tanimura & Antle at Walmart stores is being recalled. [NBC News]

Guinness recalled non-alcoholic stout because of contamination fears, just two weeks after its launch. [Guardian]

Another study names restaurants as sites of increased COVID-19 transmission risk. [CNN]

Three visitors tried to cook chicken in a Yellowstone hot spring. This is illegal. [NYT]

Beijing diners are lining up to eat at the local restaurant that President-elect Joe Biden visited in 2011. [CNN]

Whole Foods is “insuring” turkeys bought at its stores if they end up burnt, overcooked, or otherwise ruined for Thanksgiving. [USA Today]

The Department of Justice has approved the Uber Eats x Postmates deal, clearing the path for a merger of two of the biggest food delivery companies in the fourth quarter. [Restaurant Business]

The publishing company selling food books to help restaurants. [Vice]

Mountain … Dew … cookbook … [F&W]

Just in time for the beginning of the holiday shopping season, Williams Sonoma is back with more Star Wars kitchen gear. [Williams Sonoma]

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Plus, more Star Wars kitchenware from Williams-Sonoma, and more news to start your day

First Nations coalition reaches landmark deal to become co-owners of Clearwater Seafoods

One of North America’s largest seafood suppliers is being acquired in part by a coalition of Miꞌkmaq First Nations in what is being called a “historic” deal that will facilitate the largest investment in the Canadian seafood industry by an Indigenous group so far.

The group of Miꞌkmaq First Nations — led by Membertou First Nation and Miawpukek First Nation — in partnership with Canadian specialty food company Premium Brands, are purchasing Halifax, Nova Scotia-based shellfish supplier Clearwater Seafoods for $1 billion Canadian dollars ($765.8 million USD).

“This deal is a transformational moment for all participating communities,” Membertou Chief Terry Paul, who led the deal on the Miꞌkmaq side, told CBC News. “We’re a player now. In order to be in business, you first have to play the game … You have to play to win, and we won.”

Paul told CTV News that the plan is to eventually integrate Indigenous workers into Clearwater Seafoods and to create an enduring legacy for Miꞌkmaq communities, leading to a positive economic impact for generations to come.

The deal has attracted criticism from non-Indigenous commercial fishermen in Nova Scotia, who say that Clearwater Seafoods has monopolized the industry, as the company holds all the licenses for the offshore deep-water lobster fishing area known as LFA 41. Per the Globe and Mail, tensions between non-Indigenous fishermen and Miꞌkmaq fishermen over Indigenous fishing outside of the federally regulated season “boiled over” in October when non-Indigenous fishermen destroyed Miꞌkmaq fishermen’s catch. Shortly thereafter, one Indigenous lobster pound was suspiciously burned to the ground.

Halifax-based Miꞌkmaq historian Dan Paul told the Globe and Mail that the deal is a step in the right direction for economic independence for the region’s Indigenous people. “The Miꞌkmaq lost their livelihood when the Europeans invaded, and now they’re on the cusp of reclaiming it,” he said.

And in other news…

Romaine lettuce is possibly linked to a multi-state E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 12 people. Romaine sold under the name Tanimura & Antle at Walmart stores is being recalled. [NBC News]

Guinness recalled non-alcoholic stout because of contamination fears, just two weeks after its launch. [Guardian]

Another study names restaurants as sites of increased COVID-19 transmission risk. [CNN]

Three visitors tried to cook chicken in a Yellowstone hot spring. This is illegal. [NYT]

Beijing diners are lining up to eat at the local restaurant that President-elect Joe Biden visited in 2011. [CNN]

Whole Foods is “insuring” turkeys bought at its stores if they end up burnt, overcooked, or otherwise ruined for Thanksgiving. [USA Today]

The Department of Justice has approved the Uber Eats x Postmates deal, clearing the path for a merger of two of the biggest food delivery companies in the fourth quarter. [Restaurant Business]

The publishing company selling food books to help restaurants. [Vice]

Mountain … Dew … cookbook … [F&W]

Just in time for the beginning of the holiday shopping season, Williams Sonoma is back with more Star Wars kitchen gear. [Williams Sonoma]

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Overlooked No More: Lillian Harris Dean, Culinary Entrepreneur Known as ‘Pig Foot Mary’

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.It’s fall, maybe October, in the early 1900s. On a bustling Manhattan street corner, Lillian Harris Dean stands in a starched gingham dress, her fingers resting on the handlebar of a baby carriage.“Pig’s feet!” she cries to passing neighbors, as she does in a play about her life written by Daniel Carlton. “A taste of down home for your weary bones.”From the baby carriage — an early version of a food truck perhaps — Harris Dean sold traditional Southern meals: fried chicken, corn and, of course, pig’s feet. Her cooking soothed the palates of African-American transplants who, like her, had come to the unfamiliar metropolis in the purgatorial period between Reconstruction and the Great Migration. She eventually built a name and a fortune as a culinary entrepreneur and as a landlord, squarely planting herself in the history of Harlem. Before long her neighbors christened her “Pig Foot Mary,” the Madonna of the sidewalk.“People talk about seizing an opportunity and finding a market — she did all of that,” Jessica B. Harris, a food historian and cookbook writer,  said in a phone interview. She wrote about Harris Dean in “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America” (2011). Harris Dean used her cooking as a path toward financial independence, taking hold of an informal culinary economy that has historically provided opportunities to women of color, from African-American caterers in the 1700s to churro sellers in today’s subways.She marketed her food by tapping into the nostalgia of her customers, offering them a tether to the culture they missed as they tried to forget the legacy of slavery and servitude they had left behind.“What she was doing,” Harris said, “was bringing the people the food of memory — the things they remember, the things they know.”Lillian Harris was born in the Mississippi Delta between 1870 and 1873, according to a 1929 obituary published in The New York Age, a local African-American newspaper. Her parents were also born in Mississippi, census records show. After the end of slavery, Harris “drifted into New York penniless” in 1901, the prominent black journalist Roi Ottley wrote in “Springtime in Harlem,” an article he published in his 1943 book “New World A-Coming: Inside Black America.”She saved her first $5 while working as a maid in New York, polishing floors and shaking out sheets. With her savings she bought a secondhand baby carriage, a 59-cent tin boiler and a charcoal stove. She set up shop each day on a corner near Columbus Circle, alternating between the only two cotton dresses she owned.“From the beginning, Miss Harris exercised care and cleanliness,” The Age said of her in a profile in 1923. “Everything about it was spotlessly clean, including her own poor garments.”Soon, she traded in the baby carriage for a portable steam table that she had designed herself. After two years, she moved her business to Amsterdam Avenue between 61st and 62nd streets, where she stayed for 11 years. Business blossomed. She went from selling a dozen pigs’ feet a day to more than 100 a day and 325 on Saturdays. Though her cooking methods are lost to time, she most likely first boiled the pigs’ feet, which are similar in consistency to sausage, and then served them fried.“As many as 25 customers have stood in line at her stand waiting to be served,” The Age wrote, adding that “she had people eating pigs’ feet who never ate pigs’ feet before.”People came from as far away as New Jersey and Long Island just to try her cooking, the newspaper wrote.In 1908, Lillian Harris married John Dean, an educated man from Lynchburg, Va., who had been a postal worker and owned a newsstand. As Harlem became a hub for the thinkers, musicians and artists of the emerging Harlem Renaissance, she moved her business there in 1917 and worked on the corner of 135th and what is now Malcolm X Boulevard for 16 years. Like the famous street vendor in “The Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel and ode to Harlem, the smell of her cooking gave them a sense of belonging. “She was saying to people, ‘This is your place,’” said Psyche Williams-Forson, the chairwoman of American Studies at the University of Maryland. “This street corner, this city, this part of the world. This is your place.” Williams-Forson wrote about Harris Dean in “Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power” (2006).Carlton’s play “Pigfoot Mary Says Goodbye to the Harlem Renaissance” was presented in 2011 by the Negro Ensemble Company and produced by the Metropolitan Playhouse. Benja Kay Thomas played the title character. Written entirely in verse, the play takes place on Harris Dean’s last day on the corner as she says goodbye to friends.In researching her life, Carlton said in an interview, he found that Harris Dean “was somebody who talked to both the domestic workers and the people who were creating the culture.”Around the corner from her stand, he said, A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of the beauty entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker, hosted elaborate dinner parties as part of her Dark Tower salon. “People like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston would come out of these fancy dinners and probably want some pig feet, some chitlins, some hog maws,” Carlton said. Pig Foot Mary was also a minor character in “Hoodlum,” a 1997 film about Harlem in the 1920s starring Laurence Fishburne and Vanessa Williams. Harris Dean was played by Loretta Devine.Using the money from her successful stand, Harris Dean switched her focus to real estate, buying buildings and renting apartments during what became known as Harlem’s gold rush.Most notably, she bought a five-story apartment building on the corner of 137th and Lenox Avenue for about $40,000 (about $650,000 today) and rented the units to tenants. She sold it six years later to an undertaker for $72,000 (about $1 million today).“She couldn’t read or write, but she could sure count her money,” Regina Abraham, who wrote “Pig Foot Mary: The Saga of Lillian Harris,” a children’s book published in 2011, said in an interview.Harris Dean owned several other buildings around Harlem, renting and selling them as the neighborhood grew. One property she owned became a residence for the Young Woman’s Christian Association. Today her buildings have become Harlem Hospital, a Salvation Army complex and St. Mark the Evangelist Church. And on the Harlem corner where she once sold pigs’ feet stands the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, an outpost of the New York Public Library.Harris Dean became a philanthropist later in life. In 1927 she gained attention for cooking “an old fashion pig foot dinner” for the Working Women’s League. An article in The Age about the event described her as “one of the wealthiest women in Harlem.”She left New York in 1923 and traveled for six months, stopping in places like Yellowstone National Park and Los Angeles, The Age wrote.She died, on July 16, 1929, in Los Angeles while visiting friends. By then she had amassed a fortune of $375,000 (about $5.5 million today). Her body was brought back to New York, and hundreds came to the funeral. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and the father of the future congressman, gave her eulogy, praising her for “her business ability, her thrift and her desire to help her race.”Jack Begg contributed research. Source link Read the full article

Bookish Tag Questions!

AW YEAH! BOOK STUFF!

Tagged by the astonishing @acfawkes!

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

If it is a book I purposefully bought, then probably Sandry’s Story by Tamora Pierce but on shelves in general then probably Diana of the Crossroads.

2. What is your current read, your last read, and the book you’ll read next?

so i actually just finished a book titled Knit One Girl Two by Shira Glassman AND IT WAS AMAZING! The book before that was The Antagonists by Burgandi Rakoska which was also terrific! The next book on my list is The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge because I was flipping through my netflix and had a sudden realization that secret of moonacre was based on a book and i love my fantasy - cheesy and otherwise. 

3. What book does everyone like and you hated?

oh god there are actually a lot of these.... confession I have never made it through the Harry Potter series (yes, I know, I’m a terrible human BUT I GAVE IT AN HONEST TRY). I really hated slave, warrior, queen as I found that the lead was very strong willed and then ended up very passive and submissive at the end which was disappointing. I tried the winners curse series and didn’t really like it. imma leave it at that...

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t?

ummmm on my digital shelf, there are a lot of books there that I probably won’t get to. On my actual shelf... I’ve actually read everything on there sooo... Im actually pretty spontaneous in my reading...

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement”?

shakespeare marathon and working my way up to Dragonbone Chair. I don’t know, I’ll probably end up writing my own stories in my head during retirement cause I won’t be able to use my hands or hear an audiobook! 

6. Last page: read it first or wait til the end?

Depends on the book, but in most cases I’ll wait till the end! The only times I will check the ending is if I am reading with someone else and am keeping an eye out for triggers.

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I actually love reading the acknowledgements and all the other weird little things before and after the book! Getting to know the author can change the way you see a book which I find fascinating! :)

8. Which book character would you switch places with?

Thianna Frostborn. Not only is she amazingly sarcastic and smart, she is half frost giant which would be SO MUCH FUN!!!! The adventures she ends up on are so much fun and only have minor physical damage!

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

I actually have a lot of these! The first one that comes to mind is Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey which is one of the first fantasy books I read that are closer to the adult than young adult realm (see book three chapter 8) and this book was passed down to me from my mom who read it around the same age. It was one of the first books that I accidentally “missed” class in and its always been a comfort for me.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

 I got the book Wait Till Helen Comes from my elementary school librarian (who has unfortunately passed away and im still sad about that) who taught me how the right book can change your view on life and on reading. All of us library helpers got to choose a book and this was the first time someone gave me a book that wasn’t a family member. Only problem was that during the creepy ghost scene my black cat was in my very dark room and knocked over my stack of books the same time the ghost knocked over a stack of books in the book... needless to say, its not a book I read much now!

... also, I “borrowed” my dad’s copy of Death in Yellowstone when I was 7/8... I wasn’t supposed to read it but it remains one of my favorites.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special someone?

nope. I’m very possessive of my books. any books that have left my possession were either loaned, or I traded, or I got money for. I like books...

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?

Probably Death in Yellowstone as it came with us on our trip back home from yellowstone... besides that, I travel mostly with ebooks as you can store more in less space!

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later?

I no longer have a grudge against The Odyssey which is probably because the second read through wasn’t forced into two weeks with really detailed quizzes that killed my grade. All other books that I hated, I still have. peace like a river can still go burn in a hole (I have a poem about this book if anyone wants) and stargirl was a very terrible book. I DETEST it.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?

well I worked at the school library first period so I’ve seen quite a few things. There have been several bathroom passes, a couple photographs, a crap ton of phone numbers... There was a book about teen pregnancy found in the girls bathroom and that was pretty awkward. Strange, however, not really. 

15. Used or brand new?

both! If I really like a book, I will buy a new copy but for anything else I love used because it makes sitting in a corner like a creepy person less lonely because the previous reader probably did too!

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?

While I haven’t personally read any King, I know for a fact that they aren’t checked out all that much at the high school level at a high school library. I would say that like any author, if the reader gets through it and enjoyed it - that author is a genius.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

well the Harry Potter series but that is just because i could never make it through (which is really annoying but not annoying enough for me to force my way through the books) but besides that, not really

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

well a lot of the YA popular series in my personal opinion. Twilight is definitely up there. There are probably a lot of terrible movies that I have watched jokingly that were originally books that I don’t know about. 

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?

not really... I often forget to eat and forget that oh hey! my body is hungry and I should probably eat when I’m reading. 

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?

my old elementary librarian when he was still alive, and my mom. She is an english major/poetry minor so we don’t have a lot in common (Im going into geophysical engineering) but holy crap are her books good! and I get really excited about books and will read just about anything. I also have a problem where if I’ve started a series I really hate to not finish it so I’ve read an entire trilogy in two days because all books had to be back at the school library for summer.

Tagging: @bookishnessnessness @courtofglassandfire @beyondthestonewalls @stinti @intj-writer @swerpl @stinti @where-the-wild-dreams-grow @th3neighborhood-onparadiseway @goldkirk @observethewalrus and anyone else who wants to share their love of books!

Reading Meme

tagged by @whitherling​, thanks! oh god a tinge of guilt because I haven’t caught up on Whither for months now

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest? All the books that my parents first scavenged back when they were still a couple of FOBs living off my dad’s grad school stipend. These included such gems as Betty Crocker’s Helpful Household Hints, which I read cover to cover multiple times.

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next? Current read: Rereading The Wee Free Men Last read: Legion: Skin Deep by Brandon Sanderson. Man, those are some fun books. Next read: Beasts of Burden by Evan Dorkin. Came across one of the stories in this post and felt like reading the rest.

3. Which book does everyone like and you hated? The Maze Runner. Red flag #1: Stereotypical “normal” boy with no personality turns out to be good at everything. Red flag #2: the singular female character has a description that consists solely of her long legs and beautiful lips. At this point I wised up and abandoned ship.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t? N/A. Every book I put on the list, I will one day put in a good-faith effort to read. 

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?” I refuse to read the Wheel of Time series until I am stably employed with a wife and a mortgage. Only at that point will I be ready to make the life commitment that RJ’s pile of bricks will require.

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end? I used to read the last page first when I was younger, but that was before I started getting emotionally invested in books. 

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside? Interesting aside.

8. Which book character would you switch places with? Elda from Year of the Griffin because the warmth, love, and pure power of friendship that pour out of that book make me bawl every time. Alternatively, Martha Hatter from Howl’s Moving Castle because working in a bakery is my dream. 

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?  Slake’s Limbo, an peculiar book about a boy living in the New York subway tunnels that I read during the family road trip to Yellowstone. 

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way. I was walking through a hip-but-seedy neighborhood in PDX, looked down, and saw a copy of Martha Stewart’s Cookies on the sidewalk. Missing cover and index, but otherwise in good condition. It has a truly killer recipe for rosemary butter cookies, and a delicious lemony sablé that uses hard-boiled egg yolks.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person? Nope. Giving books as gifts is a dangerous game.

12. Which book has been with you to the most places? I don’t own enough books and haven’t moved enough yet.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later? Nah, all the ones I didn’t like, I have never revisited. Namely, the plays.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book? Nothing notable.

15. Used or brand new? Get them from the library, ya heathen. Owning books is cumbersome.

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses? Can’t judge him because I haven’t read any of his books.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book? Sadly, Howl’s Moving Castle. This probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d read the book first. Now I can’t appreciate the DWJ version properly.

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid? Matthew Swift is still a bare glimmer in a Hollywood exec’s eye but I just know we’re all going to regret it.

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question? Not that I can remember. But I agree that the first feast in Harry Potter is a good one.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take? I owe like 90% of my reading history to a combination of @seiya234​ and @tanoraqui​. I also always read what my sister recommends but that’s only out of a misguided sense of familial obligation.

Tagging: @mareliini because I have no idea what kind of books you read

Overlooked No More: Lillian Harris Dean, Culinary Entrepreneur Known as ‘Pig Foot Mary’

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.

It’s fall, maybe October, in the early 1900s. On a bustling Manhattan street corner, Lillian Harris Dean stands in a starched gingham dress, her fingers resting on the handlebar of a baby carriage.

“Pig’s feet!” she cries to passing neighbors, as she does in a play about her life written by Daniel Carlton. “A taste of down home for your weary bones.”

From the baby carriage — an early version of a food truck perhaps — Harris Dean sold traditional Southern meals: fried chicken, corn and, of course, pig’s feet. Her cooking soothed the palates of African-American transplants who, like her, had come to the unfamiliar metropolis in the purgatorial period between Reconstruction and the Great Migration.

She eventually built a name and a fortune as a culinary entrepreneur and as a landlord, squarely planting herself in the history of Harlem. Before long her neighbors christened her “Pig Foot Mary,” the Madonna of the sidewalk.

“People talk about seizing an opportunity and finding a market — she did all of that,” Jessica B. Harris, a food historian and cookbook writer,  said in a phone interview. She wrote about Harris Dean in “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America” (2011).

Harris Dean used her cooking as a path toward financial independence, taking hold of an informal culinary economy that has historically provided opportunities to women of color, from African-American caterers in the 1700s to churro sellers in today’s subways.

She marketed her food by tapping into the nostalgia of her customers, offering them a tether to the culture they missed as they tried to forget the legacy of slavery and servitude they had left behind.

“What she was doing,” Harris said, “was bringing the people the food of memory — the things they remember, the things they know.”

Lillian Harris was born in the Mississippi Delta between 1870 and 1873, according to a 1929 obituary published in The New York Age, a local African-American newspaper. Her parents were also born in Mississippi, census records show.

After the end of slavery, Harris “drifted into New York penniless” in 1901, the prominent black journalist Roi Ottley wrote in “Springtime in Harlem,” an article he published in his 1943 book “New World A-Coming: Inside Black America.”

She saved her first $5 while working as a maid in New York, polishing floors and shaking out sheets. With her savings she bought a secondhand baby carriage, a 59-cent tin boiler and a charcoal stove. She set up shop each day on a corner near Columbus Circle, alternating between the only two cotton dresses she owned.

“From the beginning, Miss Harris exercised care and cleanliness,” The Age said of her in a profile in 1923. “Everything about it was spotlessly clean, including her own poor garments.”

Soon, she traded in the baby carriage for a portable steam table that she had designed herself. After two years, she moved her business to Amsterdam Avenue between 61st and 62nd streets, where she stayed for 11 years. Business blossomed. She went from selling a dozen pigs’ feet a day to more than 100 a day and 325 on Saturdays. Though her cooking methods are lost to time, she most likely first boiled the pigs’ feet, which are similar in consistency to sausage, and then served them fried.

“As many as 25 customers have stood in line at her stand waiting to be served,” The Age wrote, adding that “she had people eating pigs’ feet who never ate pigs’ feet before.”

People came from as far away as New Jersey and Long Island just to try her cooking, the newspaper wrote.

In 1908, Lillian Harris married John Dean, an educated man from Lynchburg, Va., who had been a postal worker and owned a newsstand.

As Harlem became a hub for the thinkers, musicians and artists of the emerging Harlem Renaissance, she moved her business there in 1917 and worked on the corner of 135th and what is now Malcolm X Boulevard for 16 years. Like the famous street vendor in “The Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel and ode to Harlem, the smell of her cooking gave them a sense of belonging.

“She was saying to people, ‘This is your place,’” said Psyche Williams-Forson, the chairwoman of American Studies at the University of Maryland. “This street corner, this city, this part of the world. This is your place.” Williams-Forson wrote about Harris Dean in “Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power” (2006).

Carlton’s play “Pigfoot Mary Says Goodbye to the Harlem Renaissance” was presented in 2011 by the Negro Ensemble Company and produced by the Metropolitan Playhouse. Benja Kay Thomas played the title character. Written entirely in verse, the play takes place on Harris Dean’s last day on the corner as she says goodbye to friends.

In researching her life, Carlton said in an interview, he found that Harris Dean “was somebody who talked to both the domestic workers and the people who were creating the culture.”

Around the corner from her stand, he said, A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of the beauty entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker, hosted elaborate dinner parties as part of her Dark Tower salon.

“People like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston would come out of these fancy dinners and probably want some pig feet, some chitlins, some hog maws,” Carlton said.

Pig Foot Mary was also a minor character in “Hoodlum,” a 1997 film about Harlem in the 1920s starring Laurence Fishburne and Vanessa Williams. Harris Dean was played by Loretta Devine.

Using the money from her successful stand, Harris Dean switched her focus to real estate, buying buildings and renting apartments during what became known as Harlem’s gold rush.

Most notably, she bought a five-story apartment building on the corner of 137th and Lenox Avenue for about $40,000 (about $650,000 today) and rented the units to tenants. She sold it six years later to an undertaker for $72,000 (about $1 million today).

“She couldn’t read or write, but she could sure count her money,” Regina Abraham, who wrote “Pig Foot Mary: The Saga of Lillian Harris,” a children’s book published in 2011, said in an interview.

Harris Dean owned several other buildings around Harlem, renting and selling them as the neighborhood grew. One property she owned became a residence for the Young Woman’s Christian Association.

Today her buildings have become Harlem Hospital, a Salvation Army complex and St. Mark the Evangelist Church. And on the Harlem corner where she once sold pigs’ feet stands the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, an outpost of the New York Public Library.

Harris Dean became a philanthropist later in life. In 1927 she gained attention for cooking “an old fashion pig foot dinner” for the Working Women’s League. An article in The Age about the event described her as “one of the wealthiest women in Harlem.”

She left New York in 1923 and traveled for six months, stopping in places like Yellowstone National Park and Los Angeles, The Age wrote.

She died, on July 16, 1929, in Los Angeles while visiting friends. By then she had amassed a fortune of $375,000 (about $5.5 million today).

Her body was brought back to New York, and hundreds came to the funeral. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr., the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and the father of the future congressman, gave her eulogy, praising her for “her business ability, her thrift and her desire to help her race.”

Jack Begg contributed research.

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In Which Our Hero Begins His Adventure

Hey guys, like the triangles? I got them from this magical place called the 1990s.

For those of you unfamiliar with what I am doing, I guess I better fill you in. So there’s this guy on the internet who invented the Day Zero Project, or as we call it, a 101 List. It’s a list of 101 goals to be completed in 1,001 days. Whatever you want to accomplish – going sky diving, reading your height in books, trying that thing you wanted to try – but with a deadline on it so you can be motivated to get it done. When I first met Sara, she was in the middle of her second 101 List. And though I hadn’t started dating her yet, I knew that this kind of thing was right up my alley. I started one myself close to the time we started dating, and finished it in the spring of 2016. I’ll send you a link to the guy and the website that got this whole thing started, as well as to Sara’s 101 list blog. If you haven’t started following her yet, well, what’s wrong with you? Get on it!

https://dayzeroproject.com

http://emmisary.blogspot.com

Anyway, she’s on her third 101 list now, and I started this year happily content with just making ideas for my second 101 list as I spun through the white water rapids of graduate school. I told myself I’d start my next list when I was at least done with classes.

However.

The more I came up with ideas for my list, the more excited I got for them. I sat thinking about what fun I would have trying my hand at getting actually decent at an arcade game for once, only to come back to reality just in time for my professor to say, “And everything I just said is going to be on the test.” 

Just kidding. I would never* daydream in class.

Anyway, that’s when I knew I had to get started. If I’m this excited about it, it’s a sign that I should go ahead with it, right? So here we are. You’ll see below you what I plan to accomplish from January 16th 2017 to October 13th 2019. And I’ll be in grad school. So yeah, I guess I’m trying to do everything. Most likely what will happen is you’ll see me checking in with a photo or two on my Instagram when I make baby steps on finishing each goal.

Now don’t worry, go sit back in your seat, put the tomato down. I promise I’ll actually write up something solid when I get an entire goal finished. Pinky promise. Because I am a responsible* adult, I will likely only post about the goals that have to do with school for the first bit, but if you’re lucky, I just may do something interesting now and then. You never know. Anyway, before I ramble on for another four paragraphs…

 101 List 2.0, January 16, 2017 to October 13, 2019:

1.     Post on the Internet about every goal completed

2.     Complete 5 classic console video games

3.     Complete 5 indie video games

4.     Gain 25,000 points on a classic arcade game

5.     Complete an “Around the World in 80 Days” Culinary Challenge

6.     Complete a “Time-Travel” Culinary Challenge

7.     Create a Food Network-like technical challenge for Sara and 2 friends to judge

8.     Bake 3 different kinds of Chilean breads

9.     Make 3 different rolls of sushi

10.  Make 3 different batches of Xiao Long Bao

11.  Make 5 different foods from my Pokémon Cookbook

12.  Create a “Sara’s Not Cooking Tonight” recipe book with a minimum of 10 items

13.  Try 10 new restaurants

14.  Listen to 101 new albums

15.  Watch 10 films from International Cinema

16.  Read 5 Biographies / Nonfiction History Books

17.  Read 5 books related to SLP work

18.  Read 5 books on world mythologies / folktales / religion / culture

19.  Read 5 books recommended by the Vlogbrothers

20.  Read 5 books recommended by Austin Kleon

21.  Read 5 books in the genre that I am making my NaNoWriMo in

22.  Read a book on Parenting

23.  Read through an entire Marvel comic series

24.  Read or remove all the books that have been left unread on my bookshelves

25.  Get the illustrated Harry Potter books

26.  Re-read the Harry Potter series or listen to the entire series on audiobook

27.  Complete a Listography book

28.  Complete the Steal Like an Artist Journal

29.  Complete 3 challenges from The Art Assignment

30.  Create a stippling drawing

31.  Buy a classic collection of poetry and then “black it out” to make it into something new

32.  Complete a drawing journal

33.  Fill my poetry notebook for Sara

34.  Complete the Gen 7 National Pokédex

35.  Participate in an official Pokémon VGC event

36.  Contribute / participate in a Lego building contest / exhibition

37.  Post an idea on the Lego Ideas website

38.  DM a D&D campaign

39.  Win NaNoWriMo

40.  Participate in February Album Writing Month

41.  Post-it Note Art

42.  Make a piñata

43.  Submit a piece of art to a local art contest

44.  Recreate a picture from childhood

45.  Create my own board game

46.  Go on Kickstarter and contribute to something

47.  Learn Hiragana

48.  Learn Katakana

49.  Learn the Kanji for 50 words

50.  Learn the ASL alphabet

51.  Learn the ASL signs for 25 words & 5 phrases

52.  Read a book in Spanish out loud

53.  Read / watch each General Conference during the list in Spanish

54.  Add 5 movies to our Animated Movie Library

55.  Add 10 books to our Children’s Book Library

56.  Add 5 books to our Graphic Novel Library

57.  Add 5 games to our Board Game Library

58.  Watch another Ken Burns documentary series

59.  Go through a large, well-known art museum (MOMA, Guggenheim, etc.)

60.  Kon Mari my virtual stuff (everything on the computer)

61.  Kon Mari my physical stuff

62.  Create a Feltron Yearly Report

63.  Send an email to Dear Hank & John

64.  Complete an online courses from one educational website (for example, Khan Academy) on one subject

65.  Watch all the videos on Crash Course in one subject

66.  Film 1 second a day for a year

67.  Learn 5 songs from our currently-owned piano books

68.  30 days of original Lego creations

69.  30 Pokémon drawings in 30 days

70.  30 days of hidden faces

71.  30 days of sharing inspiration

72.  30 days of no added sugar

73.  30 days of TED talks

74.  30 days of clarinet

75.  30 days of piano

76.  30 days of haikus

77.  30 days of Shakespeare

78.  30 days of sharing knowledge & awareness about different communication disorders

79.  Take out my old things from mom and dad’s place

80.  Give a thank-you note to all of my teachers

81.  Donate a minimum of $5 to my top 5 favorite content creators on the internet

82.  12 days of donations

83.  Volunteer at the TRC

84.  Create a savings fund of at least $5,000 for an important, adult thing

85.  Create a savings fund of at least $150 for something fun and unnecessary

86.  Make a daruma for one of my goals

87.  Make and complete a fitness goal lasting at least 6 months

88.  Modify and follow my own version of the “Alton Brown Culinary Way of Life” for 6 months

89.  Become a Boy Scout Merit Badge Counselor in some subject

90.  Learn to change a spare tire

91.  Visit Arches National Park

92.  Visit Glacier National Park

93.  Visit Yellowstone National Park

94.  Visit Dinosaur National Monument

95.  Read a supplement to the Sunday School Lessons for 1 year

96.  Read the entire Topical Guide

97.  Read 3 church history books

98.  Read 50 journal articles related to SLP work

99.  Read through 10 subjects on the ASHA Practice Portal

100. Watch 10 videos on Master Clinician Network

101. Participate in at least one local election and the 2018 mid-term election