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We are holding a competition for our client who requires a new logo. The brand is called 'The Fertile Body' and they are a complimentary health company using hypnotherapy - you can read more in the brief. We will monitoring the competition daily and the client will be providing feedback direct to the designers.
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Cisgenesis the next step in conventional breeding
To contribute to sustainable food production, we work with cisgenesis. This is the application of genes from related, crossable species. Cisgenesis is mainly used to improve disease resistance, so fewer pesticides need to be used during growth.
Faster strong varieties
By cisgenesis the breeding process is accelerated. In cisgenesis only the desired gene is conveyed. Thus a potato variety can receive additional resistance genes from other potato plants, for instance against Phytophthora. When these desired genes are inserted in the potato through classical breeding, also undesirable properties come along. It takes decades to create a useful variety through cross breeding.
Cisgenic plants are as safe as classic bred plants and therefore exempted from GMO legislation.

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My beloved city, Phoenix, is making a fantastic run at being the punch line in the larger immigration drama. I wish we were focused on a less volatile campaign, working toward getting the Olympics or something. But this is our space to occupy as a city, it seems, and as a local church committed to Dr. John Perkins' "radical R's," we embark on a ministry of incarnational accompaniment with our city in all its facets. The future of Phoenix will be the future of Neighborhood Ministries and so we pray and work for a prosperous one.
When immigration issues swell and throb like they do right now people inevitably talk solutions. I just read Peggy Noonan's latest attempt at a policy prescription in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday. Quickly, she argues that due to vast distrust in government, before any immigration reform plans are laid out, Americans must be assured that the border is secure and safe -- sealed, even -- and only then will other types of solutions be open for discussion.
On its face, I understand why this argument plays well. Few would argue against border security and its logical, pragmatic overtones -- which is why we have been doing so much of it for the last two decades. Spending on the border has increased by over 300% since Simpson and Mazzoli wrote the IRCA of 1986, Reagan's 'amnesty.' Border security is the politically safe territory for all sides; when all else fails, hire more border agents. (We have around 15,000 now.) A great myth inside this debate is that little attempt has been made to secure the southern border. In fact, there are few if any problems inside the larger immigration issue to which we allotted more resources.
"But what about all the violence?" you ask. You read a story about a rancher or a sheriff's deputy being shot. Loss of life is always tragic and these stories are painful, but they are the visible exceptions. Incredibly, the Arizona Republic reported on Sunday that there has not been a single murder in the border town of Nogales, Arizona, for two years! FBI statistics show that crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma, and other Arizona border communities have remained flat for the past decade. Violent crime nation-wide dropped 35% between 1994 and 2004, the years unauthorized immigration was at its highest. El Paso, the sister city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is among the safest cities in the U.S., ranking as high as #2 on one list. This begins to reinforce the narrative that migrants tell: that they are hard-working, law-abiding people and that unauthorized immigration does not correlate to increased violence. In fact, a recent study showed that large migratory populations actually correlated to low levels of community violence. All the fear and rhetoric around spillover from the drug-nonsense is unwarranted. The evidence-based truth: our border is safer than it has ever been.
The missing piece we need to improve border security is to separate the drug-smugglers from the drywall guys, the masons and maids from the cartels and coyotes. Immigration policy and therefore border policy should recognize the difference. Right now these populations are treated the same. Giving the good guys gates to walk through will ease strain on the rest of the system and make catching the bad guys even easier. Again, as many have said previously and repeatedly, these gates and lines and systems for working people to enter the U.S. legally currently do not exist.
This means a discussion around earned and fair legalization is necessary now. Further stalling to deliberate on border security can only be seen as political pandering and avoidance of real problem-solving. Many have said that once the border is secure, a conversation about the people currently living here can take place. My question to them is, "How 'secure' is 'secure enough'?" Does Nogales need to go another two years without a single murder to prove it? Enforcement on its own, in isolation from comprehensive reform, tears apart families in my church and neighborhood. As a youth pastor committed to the Good News in my community, I am going to have problems with that forever. I know others in pastoral ministry will resonate.
Border pontification will not solve this problem. A nuanced conversation about complex public policy will require political leadership that today seems either a distant memory or an impossible dream. But the stories of the families in my church and neighborhood demand it. And so do I.
Ian Danley is a youth pastor with Neighborhood Ministries in Phoenix, AZ.
+Ask the U.S. Senate to pass national immigration reform this year.
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Nobody's Email: The REAL Spirit of Christmas
Nobody Gets Email
Going shopping? I wish I'd been at THIS mall to hear THIS flash mob. These people not only have fantastic voices, you can tell by the looks on their faces that they are filled with God's grace…just look at those faces.
This one got me very misty eyed…
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BastardChef III: Just Desserts
(Still more MasterChef music)
Sunday, January 20, 2013
In honour of MasterChef: The Professionals, and following on from Soup to Nuts: BastardChef Too, here's the latest edition of food music compiled for your listening and dining pleasure – BarstardChef III: Just Desserts. Though not consciously intended, this edition is even more of a novelty than previously, thanks to the heap of instrumentals, silly lyrics and spoken word. Enjoy.
- Chocolate Chip - Miles Davis
- Rubber Biscuit - The Chips
- A Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
- Ice Cream Man - Tom Waits
- Chocolate Cake - Crowded House
- Tra La La Song (Banana Splits Theme) - The Banana Splits
- Hail To Thee, Fat Person - Allan Sherman
- No, No Cherry - Frank Zappa
- Cherry Pie - Daddy Cool
- Honey Pie - The Beatles
- Wedding Cake Island - Midnight Oil
- Rockestra Theme - Rockestra
(If your flashless iDevice prevents you seeing the player below, go to the 8tracks site and enjoy the music directly. But read the notes provided – it's good stuff.)
1: Chocolate Chip - Miles Davis
We know how hard it is to pull off a dessert: it has be not just delicious and indulgent, it has to complement dinner without spoiling it. It's a delicate balancing act. As is genuinely engaging instrumental music. We start Bastard Chef III:Just Desserts with a Miles Davis instrumental entitled 'Chocolate Chip'. Yes, of course, we acknowledge that the chocolate chip is no dessert in and of itself. But how much charm, fun and class does it bring to more staid post-dinner offerings? Add them to everything - from fruit salad and cream, to coffee, to ice cream - to make them a little more exciting. (Although, let's face it, every chocoholic knows a handful from the stash of choc chips in the back of the pantry will tide you over in times without your favourite candy bars!)
This 'Chocolate Chip' certainly brought a little more fun and excitement to the world of jazz, along with the album that contained it: Doo-Bop. It was the last platter Miles Davis embarked upon before he passed away and although it sounds rooted in its early-90s sound now, like so many of the albums Davis released, it was brave and daring in its time.
Again, we acknowledge: despite a long and varied career that involved frequent abrupt turns that led to the development of whole new genres, Miles Davis isn't to everybody's taste. Or is he? Work your way through his monumental output, you'll find something that appeals. And like fusion food, that takes something familiar and creates something new by adding something exotic, Doo-Bop was the latest jazz-fusion experiment that Miles Davis cooked up before he died.
As the story goes, Davis was hangin' in his New York apartment in the summer of 1991, listening to the world outside. Inspired, he decided to create an album that captured the sound of his neighbourhood streets. He approached his buddy Russell Simmons (who, with Rick Rubin, founded the hip-hop label Def Jam) for some recommendations: Davis wanted a hip young producer to help him make this foray into jazz/hip hop fusion.
The producer was Osten Harvey, Jr, AKA Easy Mo Bee, who'd cut his teeth producing early work of Wu-Tang Clansmen GZA and RZA.
Davis and Easy Mo Bee worked on a series of sessions before Miles Davis's death in late September 1991. The album was completed by building tracks around some incomplete trumpet performances, resulting in a cohesive work that was released, some nine months later, to mixed reviews. Had Davis lived, the album would probably have been more daring; it may have been disconcerting for polite jazz circles back in 1992 - it was certainly too 'urban' to play in the Classics & Jazz music store I worked in - but it's quite straightforward now. Still, Doo-Bop took out the 1993 Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance - not a bad way to finish an amazing career.
Find it: on the album replete with sampled street sounds, vinyl crackle and spoken rap known as Doo-Bop. Or download it here.
Ben Elton once pointed out the division that arose when airlines offered bread and butter pudding as part of the in-flight meal: the first class passengers loved it, since it reminded them of boarding school, where it was a popular dessert. The economy class passengers weren't impressed at all: they'd paid good money for their flight - why should they put up with the cheap muck they could have at home? Nowadays, in the age of discount airfare, virtually anyone can afford to fly - though few can afford to pay extra for the most meagre and unsatisfactory of meals.
Meanwhile, we live in an age where less food is being produced than being consumed and national economies all over the world are in crisis. Knowing how to cook well at a lower cost is essential. Hence, we suppose, the MasterChef/Coles synergy.
With all of that in mind, the natural progression from the 'Chocolate Chip' is to a biscuit. But not just any biscuit: it's the well-loved nonsensical vocals of 'Rubber Biscuit', that encapsulated the current food predicament of today, way back in the mid-'50s.
They consist of scat singing based on co-writer and lead vocalist Charles Johnson's parody of the marching calls imposed upon him during his earlier internment at the Warwick School For Delinquent Teenagers. Beyond them are the seemingly foolish 'recipes' that break up the verses. They speak of poverty: the 'wish sandwich', where you have two pieces of bread and "wish you had some meat"; the 'ricochet biscuit' that bounces off the wall and into your mouth… unless it fails to bounce back, in which case "you go hungry"; and the "cold water sandwich". The result is beautiful art created from hardship.
The song endures, predominantly, as a 'novelty' staple, frequently featuring on children's compilations. And yet, like the posh folk who loved bread and butter pudding in boarding school, the 'kids' who first heard it when it was new carried it through life and still remember it fondly.
While the Blues Brothers covered it successfully on Briefcase Full of Blues, the original features in an excellent scene in Martin Scorsese's crime flick Mean Streets, in which a party is thrown for a returned Viet Nam vet: it ends with Harvey Keitel's character passing out. Because the camera is attached to him, as he collapses, his head remains upright while the room spins around him. 'Rubber Biscuit' adds to the disorientation.
Frank Zappa had, at one stage, intended to compile an album of his favourite doo-wop and early rock songs, with 'Rubber Biscuit' included. Although it never eventuated, another artistic freak who, like Frankie, hailed from Baltimore, Maryland with idiosyncratic facial foliage compiled an excellent album of such songs: that freak was John Waters and the album was the soundtrack to his film Cry-Baby. 'Rubber Biscuit' is one of the stand-outs.
Find it: on the soundtrack to John Waters' film Cry-Baby Download it here.
3. A Taste Of Honey - Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
If 'Honey Pie', a Beatles (well, let's face it, Paul McCartney) song that comes later in this compilation, is too much honey as well as too much pie, perhaps you' prefer just a taste. 'A Taste Of Honey' was written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow as the recurring instrumental theme in the 1960 Broadway production of a 1958 British play of the same name. Bobby Scott won a Grammy Award for his recording of it. A vocal version followed, though the more popular version of it wasby the Beatles, who recorded it for their debut album Please Please Me. You gotta dig the Beatles' version: when Macca reiterates its quality, of "tasting much sweeter than wine", his sibilance renders the word "shweeter", making him sound like a slurring drunk who knows full well the qualities of wine, as well as the honey.
Be that as it may, we've chosen the instrumental version by Herbert Alpert's Tijuana Brass, which also earned a Grammy. Tijuana Brass recorded 'A Taste of Honey' for their 1965 album Whipped Cream & Other Delights. Fittingly, it is a collection of instrumentals about food. Also fittingly, the cover offers a healthy dose of sexy innuendo – one that was popularly parodied by the likes of comedian Pat Cooper (Spaghetti Sauce And Other Delights), Soul Asylum (Clam Dip And Other Delights) and the Frivolous Five (Sour Cream And Other Delights).
Alpert is an interesting person in his own right. Apart from leading this instrumental combo, he was the 'A' in A&M Records, a label he founded with business partner Jerry Moss. (After selling it to PolyGram [now Universal], he and Moss start AlMo Sounds whose title is also derived from their surnames. Not as spectacular a label. But then, no record nowadays is as spectacular as when records were still the primary delivery vehicle for music.)
In more recent years, Alpert has taken to painting and sculpture. However, his contribution to popular music is massive, both as a label executive and as a musician.
Find it: 'A Taste of Honey' on the 2005 re-issue, Whipped Cream & Other Delights (40th Anniversary Edition). The entire album was remixed the following year as Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped. Download the original track here.
The dessert more chefs appear to make a mess of than get right on MasterChef is ice cream - even though, when they get it wrong they can pretend it's some other posh desserty substance like parfait. But Tom Waits ain't talkin' about no genteel delicacy.
Once, many years ago while visiting a cute girl who really, really tolerated me, I was engaged in an intense conversation with her incredibly sexy flatmate. We were discussing music, and she was of the opinion that "Tom Waits is just 'sex-on-a-stick'." Which went some way to explaining the raggedy-assed hobo of a backpacker she was seeing at the time. They more than merely tolerated each other. They'd more than merely tolerate the hell out of each other quite loudly, most of the night, I seem to remember. 'Ice Cream Man' is about sex-on-a-stick's sex-on-a-stick, as the lyrics clearly outline, and he'll "sure taste good to you."
In 1970 Waits would play every Monday night at the legendary Troubadour in LA, delivering Dylan covers and a handful of original compositions, of which 'Ice Cream Man' was one. Hence its inclusion on his 1973 debut Closing Time – its languid opening giving way to an up-tempo jazz rendition replete with hot guitar licks and snazzy snare shots. Personally, I prefer the demo version Waits recorded a couple of years earlier, when he first landed a management deal. It starts slightly faster, but maintains that pace throughout, with the guitar and drums sticking closer to rock than jazz. Furthermore, the initial piano motif better evokes the tinny chime of the ice cream van. The demo surfaced, against Waits's wishes, on the first of two volumes of demos entitled The Early Years.
Find it: The original demo lives on The Early Years Vol. 1. Download it here. Or if, like Tom Waits, you prefer the band rendition as released on Closing Time, you can download that one here.
5. Chocolate Cake - Crowded House
"As if you'd buy that – what does it even mean?" The question thrown at me one morning in 1991, in the café on the ground floor of the Manning Building at Sydney University. I'd just purchased 'Chocolate Cake' on CD, the lead single off the new Crowded House album Woodface. Given the success and excitement of its predecessors, the self-title Crowded House and its follow-up Temple of Low Men, album number three – with the added treat of Neil Finn's brother Tim on board – seemed promising. Perhaps even a return to – whisper it – Split Enz.
To answer the annoying question, I assume the song's about indulgence, consumerism and conspicuous consumption – with a chorus about Tammy Baker, wife of disgraced TV evangelist Jim and Andy Warhol laughing in his grave at 'cheap Picasso fakes'. The recording certainly offers a rich production with the wild harmonica interlude and almost buried vocoder…
Although, in hindsight, it may well have been inspired by how to slice up the cake of royalties, responsibility and influence now that there was one more band member. It certainly seems that way now, considering the way in which the album came about and Crowded House evolved subsequently.
Turns out the brothers Finn had gotten together to start recording a new album. Before its completion, Neil had another due with Crowded House. Unfortunately, Capitol, their label, rejected it considering some of the tracks to be a little weak. So Neil asked Tim if he could use some of the material they'd written together. Tim was happy for that to happen, on condition that he joined the band. It wasn't the ideal situation – tensions arose, Tim left before they'd completed touring behind the album. Now he says he was joking at the time. Even if the album proved to be neither flesh nor fish – not quite as good as previous Crowded House albums, not quite as good as the Finn album that followed later that decade – Neil and Tim's harmonies are always a treat. They really are our Antipodean Everlies. The first fruit of their new collaboration was 'Chocolate Cake', whose chorus fittingly opens mid-decadence: "Can I have another piece of chocolate cake…?" Go on. Indulge yourself.
Find it: originally on Woodface, or, if you'd prefer, on The Very Very Best Of Crowded House (but not Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House; go figure!) Or download it here.
6. Tra La La (Banana Splits Theme) - The Banana Splits
Way back in the earlier part of the 20th Century, Aussie writer Norman Lindsay maintained that kids loved reading about food far more than they did fairies and the like – even though 'fairy tales', in the most literal sense, were the popular form of children's literature. Lindsay proved his point in 1918, with the publication of The Magic Pudding, which remains in print today.
Why is this relevant? Because chocolate cake may be an indulgent pleasure for most (and wild honey pie, for a more discerning group that includes Patti Boyd), but the real treat is the banana in the presence of ice cream: the dessert known as the banana split. Which most people will remember as the name of a show they loved as kids: The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.
The show was hosted by another manufactured band aimed at the kids.
The Monkees were manufactured to be like the Beatles, but, proving hard to control, were superseded by the Archies, animated version of the same (and discussed at length in the notes for BastardChef 2). The Archies couldn't rebel like the Monkees…The Banana Splits couldn't rebel either, but weren't pure animations. They were actors in animal costumes, based on both the Beatles and Monkees. Fleegle the Beagle played guitar, gorilla Bingo took the drum duties, Drooper the lion was on bass and Snorky the elephant played keyboards.
The show was the first produced by Hanna-Barbera to mix live action with cartoons. It employed the services of Sid and Marty Krofft to provide the costumes – serving as a precurs0r to the Krofft-produced HR Pufnstuf. Like HR Pufnstuf, The Banana Splits was a so-called kids' show that appealed to adults - at least the ones who indulged in certain chemical refreshments. Which kind of makes sense, in a drug-addled, conspiracy theorist way:
Among the various varieties of puffin' stuff was the banana skin, or 'banana spliff', that led to the 'Mellow Yellow' high that Donavan sang about. And certain controlled substances, LSD in particular, seem to lead to users reverting to the security of childhood. You see this especially in British psychedelia. When you consider that British kids born just before or during the post-war boom would, when visiting grandma's house, see the remnants of Victoriana - posters of Lord Kitchener, antique spinning tops, photos of tragic Uncle Wilfred in uniform, who was never the same after he came back from the trenches… these were the childhood memories young, hip cool people of the mid- to late-'60s.
The psychedelic sound of the '60s - phasing, Indian instrumentation, backwards vocals and guitars - isn't evident in 'The Banana Splits Theme' (though traces of the 'Strawberry Fields' mellotron flute are discernible), but it is still childishly simple. The bubblegum sound was provided by an array of fine studio musicians. Coupled with the show's popularity, it made for durable hits, not least of all the theme song. Sing along: 'Tra la la, la la la la…'
Not too loudly, though! While loved by many, the few who particularly despise the song sometimes have good reason. Like the neighbours of seemingly indulgent Brighton resident Amanda Millard, for example. They were driven to distraction Amanda's endless playing of it, along with the Animals' 'House of the Rising Sun' and Bob Marley's 'Buffalo Soldier'. (The chorus of the latter, some have pointed out, shares similar notes as 'Tra La La'.) While Amanda's 250-pound fine means she continues to enjoy banana splits rather than being subjected to the bread and water of a custodial sentence, she has to do so at a more considerate volume.
Find it: all over the place, on all sorts of compilations, not least of all Best of Hanna Barbera: Tunes From the Toons! But if you love cartoon themes, the compilation Pic-A-Nic Basket is apt for this project, as well as being comprehensive. If it's just the one song you're after, download it here.
7. Hail to Thee, Fat Person - Allan Sherman
Let's just take a moment to catch our breath after all the desserts. We will resume gorging on food songs in a moment. For now, a spoken word piece - to music accompaniment - for everyone who loves their food more than they love their physique, courtesy of portly comedian Allan Sherman.
You may profess not to know him, but you certainly know at least one of Allan's recorded works.
Sherman's professional calling was as a comedy writer and producer of television game shows, having devised several successful formats that proved long-lived on the small screen. His sideline was in devising parody lyrics to popular tunes. Initially a party trick, it was a very good one. His next door neighbour Harpo Marx used to invite him over to entertain party guests with his songs. One guest, comedian George Burns, made the call that led to Sherman's first album, My Son, The Folk Singer , in 1962 – in which old folk tunes were given new lyrics based on Jewish shtick. Like his phone conversation with Sarah Jackman, to the tune of 'Frère Jacques': "Sarah Jackman, Sarah Jackman, how's by you? How's your sister Rita?" "A regular Lolita!"
My Son, The Folk Singer was the fastest selling album for its time, certainly aided by the fact that President Kennedy, for example, was overheard singing 'Sarah Jackman' to himself in a hotel foyer.
Other popular parodies include 'A Waste of Money', about consumer debt, to the tune of 'A Taste of Honey', and 'Pop Hates The Beatles!' to the tune of 'Pop Goes The Weasel'. But the song you'll know is Sherman's 'Hello Muddah! Hello Fuddah!' from his third album, My Son, The Nut. And you know it in its own right, without realising it's a parody. So much so, you'll do the aural equivalent of a double take when you finally hear composer Amilcare Ponchielli's 'Dance of the Hours' (featuring, as it does, in the Disney masterpiece Fantasia, for example) and marvel at how much this piece of classical music reminds you of 'Hello Muddah! Hello Fuddah!'
But enough of the musicology lesson.
'Hail To Thee, Fat Person' is Sherman's justification of his girth: the result, he insists, of forever being told to "clean his plate", as there were "children starving in Europe". We fat people (Sherman, Preston, me, etc) are merely performing a community service. The social imperatives of being a fatso became a big issue recently when a TV anchor made the news for facing down a camera after receiving some feedback from a viewer, proving the timelessness of this piece of social satire.
Find it: originally on My Son, The Nut, and now on My Son, The Greatest: The Best Of Allan Sherman. Download it here.
Don't think for an instant that the absence of the seemingly obvious choice – for this volume – of Warrant's 'Cherry Pie' is an oversight. The best thing about that song has always been the image adorning both the single and album cover: pendulously-bosomed, pigeon-toed, redheaded waitress on roller skates (a 'rollerskaitress'?) who's accidentally dropped the dessert off her plate. Oh, but look where the slice happens to be situated in the photo, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Pete 'n' Dud would probably marvel at all the rejected covers, in which the the slice was in the wrong place (it's a classic sketch, should you choose to persevere with the reference…)
But heavy metal riffs and fond memories of having a bit of a think about the cover late at night during an '80s adolescence notwithstanding, the song kinda sucks. Big time. So apologies if you're currently shaking your head in disbelief that there's no, no cherry pie. Instead there's 'No, No Cherry', a 1950s doo-wop song originally recorded by The Turbans. It's based on the same euphemism Warrant called upon for 'Cherry Pie'. And if you're wondering where this euphemism comes from, research dates it back to at least the 15th Century, where a folk song that tells of "the cherye with-outyn ony stone" is said to be about virginity. Or lack thereof.
You'll agree, it's fitting then that this happens to be another Frank Zappa song! His version of 'No, No Cherry' was performed live as a medley with his own 'Man From Utopia', this recording dating from the 1984 tour.
Find it: on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore - Vol. 4, a double-disc set of some of the best live music by some of the best live musicians you'll ever get to hear.
There may be 'No, No Cherry', but there is also 'Cherry Pie', and it's another '50s doo-wop song. It comes replete with the "fairly redundant piano triplets" (to quote Frank Zappa's notes on his own nostalgic tribute to the genre and period, Cruising with Ruben & The Jets. Which, incidently, has been given the deluxe reissue treatment more recently as Greasy Love Songs).
'Cherry Pie' was written by Joe Josea and Marvin Phillips and originally performed by Marvin & Johnny, but the version included here is by Aussie band Daddy Cool, fronted by local legend Ross Wilson.
The thing about Daddy Cool is that their embrace of vintage American rock'n'roll was authentic. Rather than mere nostalgia, even with the arched eyebrow of irony so beloved for Frank Zappa, the most novel aspect of Daddy Cool's approach was their sincerity. Hence their securing such gigs as opening for the Everly Brothers. They really did do doo-wop (or perhaps they 'did-wop') better than most. It's all over their debut album, Daddy Who? Daddy Cool! which features brilliant original compositions along with a wealth of '50s covers.
Daddy Who? Daddy Cool! was such a fine album that it was the first Aussie long play platter to sell over a 100,000 copies in this country – helped, no doubt, by the inclusion of such strong single cuts as 'Eagle Rock' and 'Come Back Again'. The local success, coupled with their accurate reproduction of an essentially American musical idiom, meant the album got a Stateside release – albeit with a revised tracklisting that did not include 'Cherry Pie'.
Find it: on the re-mastered, re-issued (with additional tracks!) original debut, Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!. If you're just dabbling, grab the compilation The Essential Daddy Cool. It's the most comprehensive 'dabble' you could hope for.
Enough with the cherry pies already. Time to move from the cheap innuendo and old-time '50s music to virtually the same innuendo, and slightly more modern-time music of a '60s song. Except that it is itself a pastiche of a much older music hall style. It seemed to be one of Paul McCartney's passions, from about 1967, to produce at least one sweet ballad mimicking an older musical idiom, per album: 'When I'm 64' on Sgt Pepper, 'Your Mother Should Know' on Magical Mystery Tour and 'Honey Pie'.
Although John Lennon derided Macca, dismissing his 'granny music' as uncool, fact is, its underpinning is as authentically 'swingin' '60s' and cool as any acid drenched masterpiece Lennon created at the time. Recall, as discussed above, the tendency for users of LSD to revert to the comfort of childhood. For Paul McCartney, childhood comfort was a time when his mother was still alive and his dad played in a big band, delivering the sort of songs that Paul would become so adept at recreating a generation later. And it's not as though the 'granny music' was without its charm. That second line, for example, with its super-imposed crackle, as if from the shellac of an old 78 (which in fact it was - a fine bit of sampling) and heavy top-end equalising, is a device still popular today in advertising: think of the amount of radio ads that alternate normal tone with distorted tone throughout the narration.
The protagonist of 'Honey Pie' is bemoaning his beloved's departure from his side to the showbiz stage across the water. It's a love letter to an absent – feared wayward – partner, most likely inspired by McCartney's own relationship with young actress Jane Asher, whose career was leading her further away from Macca. The song doesn't tell more of a story than that because it doesn't contain much more than a couple of verses and choruses. At the time, there probably wasn't a lot more to tell - seeing as Macca wasn't the kiss-and-tell type (some of his erstwhile conquests were, however; see Francie Schwartz's Body Count, for example).
Although the lyrics and story stop, the music continues. The syncopated Charleston rhythms speak volumes: Macca embracing the old music that takes him back to a happier place. As he maintains in the spoken line over the instrumental break, he likes that kind of music. Take that, Lennon!
Nearly 45 years later, it's fitting to note the Jane Asher – effectively responsible for 'Honey Pie' in the first place, now has another string to her bow that enables her to be responsible for honey pie still. Since 1990, Asher has run a posh cake company which her website boasts as being "Britain's foremost cake and sugarcraft supplier." And, let's face it, also nearly 45 years later, it's fitting to note that Jane Asher is still quite a tasty dish.
Find it: on disc 2 of The Beatles (aka 'The White Album').
11: Wedding Cake Island - Midnight Oil
Moving on from the cherry and honey pies via Jane Asher's "foremost supply of cake and sugarcraft" comes this evocative instrumental, 'Wedding Cake Island', named not for a massive wedding cake that resembles an island (for no man-and-wife is an island), but for an island allegedly resembling a wedding cake, lying off Sydney's Coogee Beach. 'Allegedly resembling a wedding cake' is correct: there aren't many accounts of how the island got its name. In fact, there are only two: once claims it looks like a wedding cake, but it clearly does not. The other suggests it's the thick layer of predominantly white seagull guano, resembling a smooth icing, which leads to the cakular allusion.
If not a wedding cake, what does the instrumental evoke? It's described as a 'surf instrumental', inspired as it is by an ocean formation. And it certainly shares a big, broad twang beloved of surf music. Consider, for example, the Atlantics' 'Bombora'. A bombora, or 'bommie' is a submerged rock, reef or other formation creating large, crashing waves over a shallower area beyond where the surf normally breaks. The surging surf music perfectly evokes those impressive, surging surf waves.
The calmer 'Wedding Cake Island' doesn't seem to speak of the mighty surf that the island in question often produces, having more in common with the spaced-out sounds of recording pioneer Joe Meek (responsible for the likes of 'Telstar' and 'I Hear A New World'). Bent notes courtesy of the wammy bar may sound 'Hawaiian', and therefore irrefutably 'surfy', but coupled with the high-pitched vibrato, suggests a very different seascape – almost otherworldly.
If you reckon not many cakes can transport you out of this world in everyday life – well, not legally, anyway – you don't have a sweet enough tooth.
Find it: on the EP Bird Noises. Download it here.
12. Rockestra Theme - Rockestra
We started with an instrumental, we're gonna almost end with one. Almost, because it's not quite an instrumental. But it's certainly an excellent closer: phased synths, surging guitars, crashing drums… it's almost surf music – certainly closer to the blueprint than Midnight Oil's 'Wedding Cake Island'. But it's got nothing to do with the ocean. In fact, it's almost got nothing to do with anything at all.
The reason it's here is not for composer Paul McCartney's grunts, but for the one vocal refrain: "I still have not had any dinner!" As everyone knows – you have to finish your dinner before you get to enjoy your dessert. Or, as that mean old school master put it in Pink Floyd's The Wall, "how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" ("You! Yes you! Stand still, laddie…!")
George Harrison may have invented the charity rock-on-athon with 1971's Concert for Bangladesh, and Bob Geldof, taken it to its supreme conclusion with Band Aid in 1985. Paul McCartney's own version was the Concerts for Kampuchea that involved the likes of The Who, Queen, The Clash, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Rockpile and The Pretenders. The finale was an all-star jam with members of the various groups, combined in one supergroup called Rockestra, delivering the classic rocker 'Lucille', modern-day rock'n'roll hymn 'Let It Be' and their very own 'Rockestra Theme'.
McCartney had the melody that makes up the theme for years. There's a rough work tape from about 1974 – bootlegged under the title The Piano Tape – that features Macca at the piano, banging out snatches and fragments of various works–in–progress, many of which would be finished and recorded during the subsequent decade-and-a-half. 'Rockestra' appears on that tape. The studio version was recorded at Abbey Road with Paul McCartney fronting not just Wings, but a megaband similar to the one captured live as the final to the Concerts for Kampuchea. It was, indeed, a 'Rock Orchestra'. Or, if you will, a Rockestra, and it included members of The Who, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
The 'Rockestra Theme' was included on Wings' final album, 1979's Back to the Egg. A fitting title, given this 'BastardChef' project. But it's a little ironic that the piece of music became the signature tune for a fundraiser to aid a starving people in war-torn Cambodia, given the vocal refrain about still not having had any dinner. To say the very least, it is of questionable – ahem – taste.
Find it: on Wings' final studio album, Back to the Egg. Download it here.
How do you feel? Utterly stuffed? Go easy, but come back for Bastard Chef 4 real soon.


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Family History in Time and Place
This article originally appeared in "The Foundations of Family History Research" by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, FUGA, and Loretto Dennis Szucs, FUGA in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
The families, communities, and world in which your ancestors lived influenced their lives, just as you are influenced by the world around you. Understanding the geography associated with an ancestor's life may help you understand some of their decisions and give insights into where to look for additional information on the individual. Likewise, knowing the people, events, history, commerce, and other information about the community in which your ancestors lived can paint a picture that will bring this person to life in a way few records can.
The Geographic Dimension
Genealogical research is assisted by a detailed knowledge of the times and places inhabited by our families. In 'Gazetteers: Identifying Research Localities,' David Thackery notes that 'Genealogy is, among other things, an exercise in geography. Successful research often hinges on identifying the locality in which one's ancestors lived. Once we know the locality, we are in a position to consult the records and histories for the area in an effort to piece together the lives of our forebears.'<ref>David Thackery, 'Gazetteers: Identifying Research Localities,' Ancestry Magazine 12, no. 4 (July/August 1994).</ref>
In one family history project, the ancestor had reportedly moved back and forth between three towns'one in Missouri, one in Kansas, and one in Nebraska. While some researchers would simply pick a state and begin the chase, a seasoned genealogist would start with maps and discover that the three towns lay in adjoining counties where the states came together. In fact, the three towns were within ten miles of each other. Suddenly the problem shifted from a vague project spanning three states and became a neighborhood puzzle that happened to straddle three state lines. No long-distance migrations had occurred.
Gazetteers, maps, and atlases are necessary tools to identify and view these all-important locations. In the previous example, the information from a gazetteer'an index of named places'helped pinpoint the towns on a map. One of the most powerful online digitized versions of a gazetteer is at the U.S. Bureau on Geographic Names website. Populated places of all sizes are indexed along with feature and topographic names, such as cemeteries, rivers, and mountains. When a queried place is found, a link to http://www.topozone.com shows the place on a United States Geological Survey (USGS) series map. The search also provides Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates to make finding a place easy.
Sometimes typing the name of a place into a search engine is adequate to begin a search for a specific location. Always follow up by finding the site on a map. For a broad introduction to types of maps, see Jenny Marie Johnson's Geographic Information (How to Find It, How to Use It). To do United States research, you should at least own an inexpensive atlas such as the Rand McNally annual Road Atlas.
The goal for successful research is to locate each place-name on a map contemporary to the time of the event or document being examined, and relate the place to nearby rivers, mountains, valleys, large towns and cities, ports, and adjoining political jurisdictions. List of Useful Resources for Beginners provides a number of websites to direct you to online collections of maps. The libraries in your area of research will hold detailed maps of their particular regions and they may provide copies for a small fee.
Historical Geography
Most excursions into geography become historical in nature. Discovering historical locations'hamlets that no longer exist, communities that are renamed, or counties whose boundaries have changed'presents another set of challenges. One census might have John Smith born in Mississippi in 1813, while another might say Alabama. In this case, you would need to know that Alabama was created from Mississippi Territory in 1817. A death certificate might list a nonexistent Yellow Bush, Mississippi, but a check of Mississippi place-names might produce Yalobusha County. The problems of shifting political boundaries should be obvious: a householder can appear in various counties or New England towns without ever having moved. The solution in such cases is to find a guide to those changing political boundaries; those containing maps are especially helpful.
Boundaries and Changes
Conducting genealogical research in the United States requires an understanding of county and, in New England (where towns performed governmental activities managed by counties elsewhere), town boundaries. Both usually changed several times before stabilizing. Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources in this wiki shows the year in which each present-day U.S. county was created and gives names of the parent counties (from which the present county was formed). This will suffice for most common research quests and should be consulted every time a new county in a family's history is discovered.
More involved questions should be answered by Atlas of Historical County Boundaries edited by John H. Long. Atlases are bound collections of maps that may also include charts and illustrations, tables, and detailed explanations of the maps featured. The types of atlases vary. Some are thematic (pertaining to a specific event, such as the Civil War) as well as location atlases. The Historical County Boundaries series takes the theme of county evolution, providing chronologies; separate, detailed maps for each county's different configurations; tables and maps of censuses; and a bibliography. The 'Atlas of Historical County Boundaries' project is by the William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, 60 West Walton, Chicago, IL 60610. The ongoing project extends to online interactive maps which depict county formation (up to 1900) from the date entered by the user at http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp/ie/index. By entering, for example, the date of death of your ancestor, you will see the county formation on that exact date. Also evident on these maps is the phenomena whereby a sparsely populated area not officially within a county would fall temporarily under the jurisdiction of an existing county, sometimes for a month or less. This latter phenomena is well-explained in 'County Attachments Complicate Search for Local Records' by John Long.<ref>'County Attachments Complicate Search for Local Records' appeared first in Origins (newsletter of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family & Community History and the Local & Family History Section at the Newberry Library) 12, no. 2 (Winter 2001): 6'8, and was reprinted in FORUM 17, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 11'12.</ref>
Less expansive guides to the evolution of county boundaries may be ordered from state governments; check their websites. Many titles appear in the bibliography of William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790'1920. The Map Guide itself is an excellent reference, showing changes in boundaries for states and territories at ten-year (census) intervals.
Migration and Settlement Patterns
The use of maps is also essential for the study of migration routes. Suppose your ancestor traveled on the Santa Fe Trail from Fort Osage, Missouri, to Clayton, New Mexico, in 1853. What trails were available in that year? Would he have taken the longer mountain or the shorter but dryer desert route? How long would the journey have been? What terrains would be encountered? What campsites would have been used by travelers? These questions could probably be answered by consulting maps held by a repository specializing in the trail. The visual depiction would surely help to recreate your ancestor's journey, regardless of the trail used. But what if your questions were: Were Conestoga wagons the mode of travel? How large were most travel parties? Were Indians a threat in 1853? What did travelers wear? What provisions were packed? What would they eat? And the larger question of when and how was the Santa Fe Trail created?
Obviously, a map is unlikely to answer these kinds of questions. Researchers can supplement map searches with some reading on the history of trails and waterway routes, such as Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge's Westward Expansion. A general background gleaned from such a study can lead to more-specific investigation: this is the historical dimension of genealogy.
The Historical Dimension
Problem solving in family history is easier when you know the historical context in which a situation existed. For instance, some Southern families in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War tended to wander from one area of newly opened Native American lands to the next. To understand which Native American lands were opened for settlement, you could start with the technical listing by Charles C. Royce, Indian Cessions in the United States. From this source you could go on to explore local histories.
A great many examples can be marshaled to prove the importance of understanding history. Suppose an ancestor was a Methodist circuit rider, an occupation about which you might not know much. Initially, this discovery might encourage only simple fact checking. Use of an online reference, such as Wikipedia.org, will provide basic information. But that may provoke a deeper need to know. Two references to historical facts are The Great American History Finder: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of American History, by Pam Cornelison and Ted Yanik, and the more comprehensive The Oxford Companion to United States History, by Paul S. Boyer, et al.
Somehow, inquiries of a historical nature tend to expand. Could circuit riders be married? How long were they assigned to one circuit? What and how large was a circuit? Where and in what sorts of Methodist records would you look for records about a rider? What is the difference between a circuit rider, a regular Methodist preacher, and a lay exhorter?
Or, even more complicated is the family tradition that says Mary Jones was born a Catholic but was adopted as an eight-year-old by Quakers after the French and Indian War and taken to Pennsylvania. It helps to know that adoption did not exist under colonial law and that the earliest adoption law in the United States seems to have been the 1851 Massachusetts law. Perhaps this 'adoption' was really a guardianship. If her parents were Catholic, were there laws suppressing the Catholic Church about 1763, and would there ever have been a Catholic Church register naming Mary? Was it illegal to practice Catholicism in 1763 New York but legal in Pennsylvania?
Such examples could continue endlessly. More than one problem-solving session will be helped by a foray into more detailed references, particularly if the topic is obscure. What reference, devoted to Methodism and circuit riding, is likely to contain the needed detail? Which sources explain anti-Catholic laws in the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
An Internet search is a good place to start. Try typing your research subject into a search engine and then refining your subject entry until you find websites devoted to your topics of interest. The collections of a good local library or a university library (most offer borrowing privileges to non-students for a fee) are also great resources. When possible, use the online access to their catalogues for easier searching. Add subject searches in the catalogues of genealogically-rich repositories, such as Family History Library Catalog (see Family History Library). Explore the in-store databases and online catalogues of commercial book dealers (such as Amazon.com, Borders, or AbeBooks). Once specific titles are identified, they may be purchased, ordered through interlibrary loan, or perhaps viewed in their entirety through the magic of electronic books online.
One other observation about how a knowledge of the area and time period helps a researcher place their family'and the documents they created'into historical context. Family historians whose work reaches back to the mid-eighteenth century in Britain or America (quite a stretch for those just starting) will find it necessary to deal with the changing of the calendars from the Julian to the Gregorian in 1752. A good explanation of this and how it affects the interpretation of documents is in Val D. Greenwood's Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy.17 While this is a bit of information you won't need right now, keep it in mind as an example of how each change of locale or era in a research project requires new investigation into its geography and history.
Building a Bibliography
This identification and consulting of titles is called developing a bibliography. If you are fortunate, a bibliography will already have been created. The bibliographic Harvard Guide to American History, edited by Frank Freidel, leads the user directly to specific history titles by topics.
An in-depth bibliography requires the addition of articles. Perhaps there is yet no book title on an esoteric topic (hard to believe but possible), or the only reference you can find on a subject includes quotes from an article in a scholarly journal. Locate historical and genealogical articles through PERSI, the Periodical Source Index. For an index that focuses on historical topics, check Annadel N. Wile, et al., C.R.I.S.: The Combined Retrospective Index Set to Journals in History, 1838'1974, for articles on obscure subjects.
Often general works on a specific region will provide much historical data, particularly in an urban area. The Encyclopedia of Chicago, by James R. Grossman, et al., devotes several paragraphs to the subject of printing (Chicago was a center for commercial printing in the late nineteenth century). Learning the concentration of print shops was on the near South Side of the city helped locate the residence of the printer Thomas Stone and gave fascinating detail about his occupation. Three titles cited as sources for the encyclopedia article proved even more useful.
If you are concentrating on a particular area and have access to the back issues of historical journals devoted to that area, first seek a cumulative index to the periodical and, if there is none, examine the title pages of each issue to see what was published. Also check the titles in the book review sections.
Although there is usually no one-stop service to build the good bibliography you want, by searching the resources described previously you can develop a bibliography tailored to your research needs. And with such an in-depth knowledge of the world of your ancestors, you stand a much greater chance of solving lineage problems.


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WHEN A friend invited photographer Germán Herrera to Cuba in 1987, he jumped at the chance, capturing the country's vivid street life in stunning photojournalistic style. It was a welcome change from the commercial photography the then-30-year-old was doing in his native Mexico City.
Then he stopped taking photographs for nearly 11 years.
"I didn't feel that I had a lot to say," says Herrera, 55. "Most of the photographers I admired and that had something relevant to share were mature, age-wise and mind-wise if you can call it that."
After a spiritual journey that led him to an exploration of his "baggage" with a type of psychotherapy called Core Energetics, Herrera was ready to pick up a camera again.
But he was a changed man and photographer.
Herrera's works appear in "Manifest," an exhibit at Smith Andersen North in San Anselmo through Feb. 9.
"I love Germán's work; it is maddeningly subtle and suggestive," says Rebecca Horne, a former photography editor at the Wall Street Journal. "It kind of makes me crazy that I only half-know what I'm looking at, I'm often left with scraps of my own fancies to complete my understanding."
That pleases Herrera, although he admits that isn't something he does consciously in his photography. His photomontages are subtle, so whoever looks at his work feels more engaged.
"What I do is not completely understood or clear to me always. It's always open to interpretation," he says.
Trained in traditional darkroom photography, Herrera switched to digital photography in 2001 after discovering its potential, as well as software like Photoshop, as a way to express himself in ways much more complex and emotive than capturing street scenes.
"I just started playing with what seemed meaningful to me," says Herrera, who was the artist-in-residence at San Francisco's de Young Museum in 2006 and whose work is part of the permanent collections of museums across the country.
That often steered him toward photographing the imperfect and even what some might consider disgusting. Herrera's OK with that.
"I tried to not really think about what I was doing, but more sense what I was feeling or the connections felt by following my gaze, or a smell that would catch me, or a dead animal. I would try to leave my mind aside and look at it for what it is," he says. "There's some part of me that is attracted to these cracks or process of disintegration. Finding the lack in what I was seeing, finding the mistakes, finding the imperfections."
That might have something to do with Herrera's background.
The first of five siblings born to a mother and father who were both psychologists, Herrera was fascinated by primitive cultures and their emphasis on dreams and myths, fueled by the books owned by his grandmother, an intellectual and friend of famed photographer Edward Weston. His interest in spirituality became even more heightened during his visit to Cuba, where he learned how to play Afro-Cuban drums and became a musician for a number of years.
"The spiritual aspect of music as it is experienced in Cuba is something that deeply interested me," he says. "Everything started connecting and it all started going in the same way, which was art, spirituality and a deep interest in the human experience as a form of becoming."
Herrera went to India for six months to explore that, and met his wife, Nayana Rodriguez, there. Still insecure in his photography when he returned to America, he worked odd jobs like laying carpet and construction for a number of years that helped fuel his artwork, he says.
"It's interesting how I can look back in my life and see how each experience, pain included, was clearly important to what I may have to say today about life," says Herrera, who lives with his wife and two cats in San Rafael.
Herrera's images are like "a kind of mirror that offers the potential to recognize something of ourselves," writes art historian and critic Elizabeth Ferrer. "In Herrera's hands, photography becomes a medium for entering liminal spaces — between the physical and the psychological, the knowable and the unknowable — elusive territories that symbolize the possibility of grasping the metaphysical in the everyday world around us."
In March, Herrera will teach a class for the first time, "El Camino como Destino: The Path as Destination," a three-day workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, that explores creativity and self-discovery.
Like the mature photographers who inspired him so many years ago, Herrera has found his voice.
"I'm pretty fascinated with what I do," he says. "I feel very curious about what I do. I feel I'm just scratching the surface."
Vicki Larson can be reached at email@example.com; follow her on Twitter at @OMGchronicles, fan her on Facebook at Vicki-Larson-OMG-Chronicles
What: Germán Herrera: Manifest
When: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment; through Feb. 9
Where: Smith Andersen North, 20 Greenfield Ave., San Anselmo
Admission: Free
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What is a frs side skirts?
Historically, the frs side skirts is a primordially feminine detail of the wardrobe (not counting the eccentric Scots). The frs side skirts has undergone a huge number of the most unthinkable changes. She overgrew flounces and ruches, tightened the figure of a woman in tight clasp-corsets, preventing normal movement. Then she flew to the base of her legs, turning from maxi to micro.
People did not immediately divide clothes into masculine and feminine, for thousands of years they saw no need for it.
Ancient Greek women and Romans did without skirts, their clothes consisted mainly of tunic or tunic and cloak.
Strictly speaking, the frs side skirts is part of the clothing from the waist downwards.
What do we know about frs side skirts?
The skirt was of a variety of colors and styles, and yet the figure of a girl in a stylish frs side skirts invariably evoked admiration at all times. A long skirt, as well as a skirt of midi length really should take a mandatory place in our wardrobe.
In this age of emancipated, self-sufficient, confident women, frs side skirts periodically go into the background for the convenience and practicality of trousers. But, no matter what, there are always adherents of feminine clothing.
Fashion is always inextricably linked with man. Variable nature of women, the desire for changes in appearance, is reflected in collections of fashion houses. From the fashion podiums, clothes are sent to the thirsty hands of bold stars, bloggers and shocking celebrities.


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15 Things Southerners Eat on Christmas Gallery
If there's one region in the United States that really does the Christmas season right, it has to be the South. With its own unique traditions and a politeness and friendliness that is unmatched, the South is a magical place to spend the holiday season. You see, what this region lacks in snow and that special Christmas chill in the air, it makes up for with some of the best home cooking in the country.
Calories are certainly not a concern when it comes to holiday foods, and that couldn't be truer anywhere than in the South. Flavor is simply not sacrificed in the cornbread stuffing or the decadent coconut cakes; these delicacies just aren't complete without tons of butter and delicious fats. Heck, even the vegetables are full of bacon and ham! And the South simply wouldn't have it any other way.
So whether you're looking to shake up your Northern Christmas dinner menu with another region's classics or you're looking to recreate your mama's home cooking, we have 15 Southern-inspired recipes for your holiday dinner parties. From sausage ball appetizers to a delicious glazed ham to a classic pecan pie and everything in between, keep reading for 15 classic Southern Christmas recipes.iStock
Sausage Balls
This classic Southern appetizer is a staple at holiday gatherings across the region. With just four common pantry ingredients, it couldn't be easier to make.For the Southern Sausage Balls recipe, click here.iStock
Horseradish and Dill Dip
Horseradish is a zippy essential for any Southern holiday menu, and this simple no-bake dip is a quick and easy way to get food on the table ASAP for all your hungry guests.
For the Horseradish and Dill Dip recipe, click here.iStock
Spicy Pimento Cheese
This dippable cheese spread has just the right amount of kick thanks to jalapeños and hot sauce, but don't worry! Cream cheese and mayonnaise help to temper the bold flavors.For the Spicy Pimento Cheese recipe, click here.Table 301 Restaurant Company
Coca-Cola Glazed Ham
Want a true holiday shortcut? Glaze your ham with Coca-Cola. Yes, this soda adds a perfect sweetness that helps to balance out the saltiness and meatiness of the ham.For the Coca-Cola Glazed Ham recipe, click here.
Rosemary Citrus-Herb Turkey
A citrus rub with lemon zest, orange zest, and garlic helps to add a particular sunny brightness to this roasted turkey recipe. Meanwhile, rosemary and thyme give this bird a true holiday feel.For the Rosemary Citrus-Herb Turkey recipe, click here.Jennie-O
Slow 'n' Crispy Mac 'n' Cheese
Nothing beats a homemade macaroni and cheese, especially this rich and creamy version with a crunchy, nutty topping. Whether you serve it on the side or as a main dish for the children at the table, this mac 'n' cheese will be the star of your holiday party.For the Slow 'n' Crispy Mac 'n' Cheese recipe, click here.iStock
No Southern table is complete without biscuits, especially a holiday table. Take the time to make these 100 percent homemade biscuits; your guests will certainly appreciate the effort.For the Southern-Style Biscuits recipe, click here.Shutterstock
Potato Gratin With Onions and Sage
If you can't have meat in your vegetables, you better have plenty of cream, cheese and herbs in them. This potato gratin recipe looks elegant and has a heartwarming flavor perfect for the holidays.For the Potato Gratin With Onions and Sage recipe, click here.iStock
Braised Collard Greens
Collard greens are great any night of the year, but there's something particularly special about them for the holidays. These easy braised collard greens are easy to customize however you see fit.For the Braised Collard Greens recipe, click here.iStock
Classic Cornbread Dressing
Yes, you made it for Thanksgiving, but no Southern holiday is complete without cornbread, and no holiday is complete without dressing. So re-up on that side dish. It's a real winner, after all.For the Classic Cornbread Dressing recipe, click here.iStock
Southern-Style Green Beans
These green beans are stewed together with potatoes, cayenne, and plenty of pancetta to create a deeply flavorful side that's also super easy to prepare.For the Southern-Style Green Beans recipe, click here.The Daily Meal
Sweet Potato Casserole With Praline Topping
Sweet potato casserole is an iconic Southern dish and a holiday staple. This variation has a crunchy praline topping that gives it the perfect Christmassy feel.For the Sweet Potato Casserole With Praline Topping recipe, click here.Holly Clegg
Coconut Lavender Cream Cake
Coconut cake is a stunning yet simply presented confection that will stand out on any dessert table.For the Coconut Lavender Cream Cake recipe, click here.Stephanie Mullins
Praline Cookies
No Christmas is complete without plenty of cookies, and these crisp yet chewy cookies are the South's best offering.For the Praline Cookies recipe, click here.Taste of Home
Texas Pecan Pie
There's nothing particularly complicated about this comforting, classic pecan pie recipe. But it's sure to add some Southern authenticity and plenty of flavor to your Christmas table. And if these classic Southern recipes don't fulfill your holiday menu needs, consider every other recipe you need to get through the holidays.For the Texas Pecan Pie recipe, click here.More From The Daily Meal:
Classic Southern Recipes That Are Better Than Grandma's
Dishes You'll Only Find in the South
Christmas Eve Dinner Recipes Straight From My Grandma's Cookbook
21 Slow Cooker Recipes for Christmas
15 Things Midwesterners Eat on ChristmasTaste of Home


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Pagliacci's Restaurant a Denver landmark since 1946
Pagliacci's of Denver, at 1440 W. 33rd Ave. for 66 years, closes its doors in August. It has welcomed diners since 1946 when it was opened by Frank Grandinetti, a Sicilian produce vendor. Known for its classic 'red sauce' dishes, Pagliacci's anchors the Italian neighborhood in Highlands where its hearty Italian fare has been a favorite of Denver diners for generations.
Read more updates from Colorado Table on Pagliacci's closing.


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Long ago a terrain maker named Sean White, aka Armorbimbo, made some pretty cool stuff, including "floating terrain".
He also made something I thought was unique, a sort of stalagmite. When I saw it I thought it was great but needed to be bigger and slimy. Here's my tribute to Armborbimbo's stalagmite.
I remember how/why Armorbimbo did this. He was casting Castlemolds with gray plaster and needed something to do with the excess. He poured it onto these columns, and that's why it looks so drippy.
While making my version I came up with a reason for it, so after the pictures is a lengthy description. It's useful for D&D.
You can see the second and third ooze plants I made by
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These are four shots of what I'm calling an "ooze plant". There are drow D&D Miniatures for scale.
I did basically the same thing, I poured plaster over and over again to make this taller. I created multiple 'stalks' to make it look more disgusting, painted it gray, then painted it with gloss to make it slimy.
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This thing is solid as a rock of course. It doesn't chip easily, and it stores pretty well. If it gets dusty and loses a little shine, a quick coat of gloss fixes it.
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Here's an overhead picture.
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Here's an up-close picture of a miniature. That drip isn't water, it's
Realistic Water
from Woodland Scenics.
With pouring so many layers of plaster onto this thing, the base had spread way out, so I cut it back. That's why it stops kind of suddenly.
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Another up-close picture to show the gaps between the three stalks.
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Ooze Plant Monster
Ever wonder where gelatinous cubes, black puddings and other oozes of the Underdark come from? They come from Ooze Plants.
Ooze Plants are digusting pillars of glistening slime that create oozes which spread throughout the local Underdark. Ooze Plants are often mistaken for bulbous stalagmites.
An Ooze Plant needs a few things to survive and grow: steady sources of water, heat and protein-rich nourishment. This usually only occurs in caverns in the Underdark where steam rising from deep in the earth bears bacteria that the Ooze Plant absorbs. The plant also send out some of its Oozebornes to scour the caves for fungus or wandering creatures and bring the food back to the ooze colony. Ooze Plants can't live underwater as the water is usually cold and swimming creatures can easily avoid the plant.
Ooze Plants see all other life as food, so few other creatures can exist in the same area. Only when an Ooze Plant is on the floor of a tall cavern can creatures like bats live in the same area (on the roof). The bat droppings are consumed by the plant and its brood.
The tiny oozes an Ooze Plant creates, called Oozebornes, often mill around the plant and may conglomerate together, creating much larger oozes (which then leave the area). The plant has no more control over its offspring than humanoids do. Some of its children stay to support the plant while others leave. Typically any Oozeborne larger than Medium-sized needs more food and will leave the "nest."
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Ooze Plants begin as single pillars of slippery goo, usually near a vent. All Ooze Plants are grey in color with a very glossy surface. They are solid and not gelatinous at all. Their exterior is fleshy cartilage with a central core of tough, bone-like material. As they age, they spread out along the floor of a cavern and new pillars rise. The pillars are all connected by thick piles of the same material as the main plant. All of the pillars are the same creature. In the worst case of an Ooze Plant nest, a whole cavern complex may be a forest of these pillars with an infestation of small Oozebornes wandering around in neighboring caverns. It would take months of dangerous work to destroy such a beastly creature.
Ooze Plants do not have gender. New Ooze Plants are created one of two ways. The simplest is an ooze that inhabits an area near a vent and steadily changes form into the plant; this process can take decades.
The second way an ooze plant comes into being is when an ooze of least Medium size attempts to consume the corpse of a magical creature at least two sizes larger than itself (i.e., Huge or larger). The magical creature must have had magical powers when it was alive, like a dragon or an aboleth that dies out of water. The corpse of the creature must not be more than a few days old and can't be too decomposed (and as such couldn't have been undead).
In this case, the ooze essentially bites off more than it can chew. The latent magical energy of the corpse overcomes the ooze and warps it into a new creature. During this process, the ooze grows to the size of the creature (at least Huge) but is sluggish. Once the creature is consumed, if there is no other food available, the ooze moves around seeking a steady source of food. It slowly solidifies and becomes less and less mobile. If the ooze doesn't find a steady source of food by the time it becomes immobile, it dies. Those that find steam vents stop and their structures ossify. They rise into pillars next to the vents or under stalagmites to catch all the water they can. Ooze Plants start as Huge-sized stalks, then rise into Gargantuan pillars and sometimes become Colossal towers.
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Ooze Plants do not get along, although it is extremely rare for them to meet since they are immobile. If somehow their territories were to overlap, or a new one grew into the other's area looking for food, the larger would go to any lengths to absorb the other.
Like all oozes, Ooze Plants engulf whole creatures and dissolve anything organic. Other items like weapons and armor are sometimes stuck inside it. Most oozes expel these over time, but an Ooze Plant can't do that so its insides are usually littered with metal and stone objects. Sometimes these are of great value. Also, because Oozebornes bring back creatures they swallowed, an Ooze Plant nest can be a treasure trove.
Ooze Plants have a simple, egocentric intelligence that allows them to understand languages and accept offerings. They can recognize different creatures and perceive threats. If an Ooze Plant is supplicated with enough offerings of food, it will consent to these minions being in its presence and direct its children not to attack them. Naturally, Ooze Masters worship Ooze Plants as gods. They often form cults around the Ooze Plant. An Ooze Plant can offer gifts of the many items it has accumulated through the years. It doesn't understand why these baubles are of value to humanoids, but as rewards for its cultists, it will spit out one random object. This is truly random: it can be anything from a ladle to a glass eye to a magical sword.
A single humanoid body is good sustenance for an Ooze Plant, but nowhere near as nutritious as the steady stream of microorganisms it gains from vents in the Underdark. So while a plant may allow a cult to worship it, it gains little from one sacrifice. An Ooze Plant is always hungry and will want sacrifices on a very regular basis.
Besides limited intelligence, some control of its Oozebornes and possibly a cult to protect it, Ooze Plants have some special abilities it uses for defense.
The same vents that feed the plant bring deadly acids up, which the plant also absorbs and neutralizes over time. The central pillar and others near it can spray this acid in defense. (And if the vents are bringing a lot of acid up from below, the whole cavern may be dangerous to breathe in.)
Sunlight is dangerous to an Ooze Plant, so none exist on the surface. Because the plant is solid and covered in non-flammable slime, fire is no more dangerous to it than a normal humanoid. Ooze Plants can be hacked apart with weapons, although its size makes this difficult. The best long-term way to slay an Ooze Plant is to block the vents that feed it, or to collapse the cavern on top of it (although that would kill about anything).
The intelligence of an Ooze Plant is located within its central pillar. This is always the largest, most central pillar of them all (if there is more than one). Any part of the 'body'? that gets separated from the intelligence dies. The plant does not worry about this and treats the lost appendage as food.
Rarity & enemies:
You would think Ooze Plants would be pretty rare, but oozes exist all over the Underdark and magical creatures have to die sometime. Oozes are drawn to large corpses, so the possibility of one metamorphing into an Ooze Plant are good. It's only the rarity of steam vents near such corpses that prevent Ooze Plants from being common. That plus they have some enemies:
Oozes have no natural predator to cull their numbers, but some tiny creatures seek out the tough, sinewy structures of Ooze Plants to chew on. These are generally not recognizable species from a surface-dwellers' standpoint. The vermin usually have to dart through the oozes to get to the plant, rip off a small chunk and drag it away quickly.
Xorns may decide some vein of precious metals in the area of the Ooze Plant is worth eating, and they will tunnel it out. This often collapses the floor or ceiling of the cavern which damages or destroys the plant. Since Xorns are relatively safe from oozes, they pay no attention to even the largest Ooze Plant.
Formians like to tear apart Ooze Plants and use them as construction material in their hives.
Spider-eaters dislike Ooze Plants because they don't like oozes slipping into their lairs and endangering their eggs. Spider-eaters will knock the pillars of an Ooze Plant down if they encounter one.
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Other Oozes: Ooze plants generate new oozes.
Anthropods: Known as 'goobers' to orcs or pseudomorphs, these are medium-sized, humanoid-shaped oozes that moves quickly from area to area. Due to the gray material they're made of, they're often confused for clay golems.
Stinking Pile: One way for the ooze plant to attract more creatures to it is to emit a foul smell. This can be carried some distance in the Underdark by the vents. The stench attracts all kinds of vermin and things like otyughs.
Protocube: The early stages of a gelatinous cube, a protocube is something to fear. Not yet as transparent as a gelatinous cube, it's a massive, moving ooze that scours the walls of dungeons. It can fill entire corridors with its slimy bulk, and is always a sign that an ooze plant is nearby.
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Wow they look really cool.
But i dont get how you made them (Even if you explained)
And what did you use to make them, i didnt see if you wrote that but i didnt see it if you did.
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Basically I just kept dripping plaster on top of plaster to make it. That's very similar to the way stalagmites & stalagtites are formed.
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Ok but if it dont dries fast enough?
And what plaster did you use and can you link to it?
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Use any plaster, whatever cheap stuff you can get in a craft store like Michael's.
Mix the plaster thick so it can
but not
. The first puddle you make will take a while to dry, like overnight. The next one will dry quicker when the wet plaster hits the dry stuff. Eventually I found I could do a couple drips a day, building up layers.
Because of dry time, this project isn't quick. It would probably take a week or so of going back, mixing some plaster, dripping it, and letting it dry.
I'll admit you don't have to do it all by dripping. You can put an object down that you don't want, like a piece of wood, and drip the plaster over that. Saves time.
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I'll start another ooze plant as an example. This time I want multiple stalks rising from it in different places.
First I cut out a big piece of plastic from a package I'd bought. That's so when I drip the plaster it won't stick to anything. Then I lined up some extra
bricks. (The pictures are black-and-white to make it a little clearer what's going on. White plaster on a white background.)
My plaster was really watery at first, so it spread out too far when I tried to drip it from the cup. I added some more and it thickened up. It already looks gross (which is good).
Here's the other side.
By tomorrow night I should be able to drip some more on it, and it should start getting taller. This is only 4" tall so far.[/url]
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A few weeks ago my friend Thomas Knauer asked me if I would like to make something with his new line, Savanna Bop, for Andover Fabrics. Of course I said yes, and having seen some of the images of the line on Thomas's blog, and I thought the animals would be a perfect choice for a skirt for Olivia. We love going to the Cincinnati Zoo, and on our latest trip there this week, Olivia wore her Savanna Bop skirt.
Of course we were on the hunt for rhinos, since they appear in all three prints that I used.
We found this guy in the parking lot.
But it was so much more fun to see the real thing inside the zoo. He (or she?) was covered in mud!!
Here's a shot where you can see the three fabrics better. I used Quadrille for the yoke, Carnival for the main skirt section, and Mosaic for the ruffle.
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