New species discovered: Purple-festooned, Atepolus toad

Very pretty, for a toad. Also, I want to see what it looks like under a black light....

More new species: [link]

I should write up the Charlie Trotter's experience. I'm not going to have that kind of gustatory experience again anytime soon.

There were at least four $35,000 double magnums of wine in that wine cellar, which is only one of four cellars in the restaurant. I kept thinking that Danny and Rusty could make some easy money there.

From Kat's link....

If I have not wrote in the high, polite Stile, I hope I shall be forgiven; for my Intention is to instruct the lower Sort, and therefore must treat them in their own Way. For Example; when I bid them lard a Fowl, if I should bid them lard with large Lardoons, they would not know what I meant:

Well, I know what Sort I am. Lardoons? Heeheee.

msbelle, yay on getting him in today. yay on getting precert stuff starting. That's a nightmare that I'm too familiar with.

I don't want Noah to move. I don't want to disrupt him where he is and where he has been since birth. Plus I love Huntington's staff and I am comfortable there. Plus he's doing well and I worry that a move might undo some of that progress.

Shrift - they just have bottles of wine that cost as much as a car lying around for any random klutz to fall over and break?

Oh, it was in a locked wine cellar, in a wine rack above my head. Still afraid to move and bump the rack with my purse, though.

Community recipe books are some of the best historical documents!

I love them! I have several from both my family in Texas and from up here.

Scooter Libby's been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

A Tribute to Two-Toned Lobsters and Friends

Two-tone lobsters are rare, only about 1 in 50 million share this mutation. They would be wise to increase the frequency of this variation however as it inevitably saves the little guy from the pot. Lobster shells have three primary pigment colors, red, yellow and blue. Occasionally lobsters lack one or more of these colors and because the two sides of a lobster shell develop independently, startling two-tone specimens are possible. Their less fortunate plain-Jane family members turn red in the pot because the heat frees the red pigment molecules, uncoiling them from the dark protein chains that typically keep them under wraps.

Freaky. It looked like someone just masked off half a lobster and painted it - the dividing line between the two sides/colors is that distinct.

Mmmm.... lobster....

Scooter Libby's been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Huh. I think that's on the high-side of various guesses on how much time he'd get....

Also a good read: a 1622 treatise on breastfeeding from The Countess of Lincoln's Nurserie.

I love early modern books. I am a freak.