Next, the Margarita may have been derived from the daisy cocktail, a popular sour cocktail in the 1930s and 1940s. The name “margarita” may come from the Spanish translation of “daisy”. Another story claims that a bartender named Danny Negrete in Puebla, Mexico, created the drink in ...
Highlighting Mexican-American history in California’s Port Of Hueneme, this 1940s-era lemon crate tells the story of how Sunkist lemons were brought in from local farms and sorted at an Oxnard packing house before being transported to retail storefronts around the world. Most of this packing ...
Really interesting facts and interwoven, tangled stories evolve. The Sweetness of Forgetting, by Kristen Harmel. Cute story. Hope, a 30 something woman, lost her mother to cancer, she’s estranged from her husband, and her funds are running low, despite owning a successful bakery on Cape Cod...
I believe The recipe came from Kraft during the early years of WW2 rationing. It wasnt until I was 14 that I realized there was more than one chocolate cake recipe. I know there's still folks around that haven't had joy of eating a slice of a Mayonnaise cake. Unfortunately, my ...
Maxim’s (Chicago) Poires Helene With the woodwork, lamps, china, and all the other furnishings from France needed to recreate Paris’s “La Belle Epoque” in Chicago, came eight chefs trained by Maxim’s in Paris to produce elegant dishes such as Entrecotes Bercy and Flan de Carottes. ...
Cut the chocolate into bits and add boiling water; stir and cook until it boils. Heat milk in a double boiler and gradually add the hot milk to the chocolate mixture. Add the sugar and salt, then just before removing from the fire [heat], add vanilla. Whipped cream or marshmallows may...
On Aug. 3, 1923, The Boston Post rolled out a blaring headline that reflected the shock of the nation at the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding. It's widely accepted now that Harding died of a heart attack, but at the time, public curiosity, misinformation, and rampant rumors ...
Egg nog, we believe, is originally an American institution, popular both at the North and at the South, but more particularly in the southern states during the holiday season. It is, with milk punch, popular among the faculty for the encouragement and aid of convalescents. (Text fro...
py3to2 unserializes the return pipe to a 2.x++ codeobject 6. the 2.x++ codeobject is exec/eval'd normally w/ the addition of the backported 3k opcodes. in theory, this mechanism should transparently implement any 3k feature that works @ the bytecode-level. performance and robustness ...
segfaults = False from ctypes import * import ctypes.util import struct import sys import platform import os import re import operator import math import locale import datetime import time import getpass import encodings import functools import gc try: import psyco psycoOk = True # reading 66 %...