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Recommended June Releases
I have an all-female line-up for you this time, with selections ranging from a YA romance in verse to a memoir by a spiritual recording artist. There's a very random detail that connects two of these books – look out for it!
In Paris with You by Clémentine Beauvais
[Faber & Faber, 7th]
I don't know the source material Beauvais was working with (Eugene Onegin, 1837), but still enjoyed this YA romance in verse. Eugene and Tatiana meet by chance in Paris in 2016 and the attraction between them is as strong as ever, but a possible relationship is threatened by memories of a tragic event from 10 years ago involving Lensky, Eugene's friend and the boyfriend of Tatiana's older sister Olga. I'm in awe at how translator Sam Taylor has taken the French of her Songe à la douceur and turned it into English poetry with the occasional rhyme. This is a sweet book that would appeal to John Green's readers, but it's more sexually explicit than a lot of American YA, so is probably only suitable for older teens. (Proof copy from Faber Spring Party)
"Her heart takes the lift / up to her larynx, / where it gets stuck / hammering against the walls of her neck."
"an adult with a miniature attention span, / like everyone else, refreshing, updating, / nibbling at time like a ham baguette."
"helium balloons in the shape of spermatozoa straining towards the dark sky."
Implosion: A Memoir of an Architect's Daughter by Elizabeth W. Garber
[She Writes Press, 12th]
The author grew up in a glass house designed by her father, Modernist architect Woodie Garber, outside Cincinnati in the 1960s–70s. This and his other most notable design, Sander Hall, a controversial tower-style dorm at the University of Cincinnati that was later destroyed in a controlled explosion, serve as powerful metaphors for her dysfunctional family life. Woodie is such a fascinating, flawed figure. Manic depression meant he had periods of great productivity but also weeks when he couldn't get out of bed. He and Elizabeth connected over architecture, like when he helped her make a scale model of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye for a school project, but it was hard for a man born in the 1910s to understand his daughter's generation or his wife's desire to go back to school and have her own career.
Mixed feelings towards a charismatic creative genius who made home life a torment and the way their fractured family kept going are reasons enough to read this book. But another is just that Garber's life has been so interesting: she witnessed the 1968 race riots and had a black boyfriend when interracial relationships were frowned upon; she was briefly the librarian for the Oceanics School, whose boat was taken hostage in Panama; and she dropped out of mythology studies at Harvard to become an acupuncturist. Don't assume this will be a boring tome only for architecture buffs. It's a masterful memoir for everyone. (Read via NetGalley on Nook)
Florida by Lauren Groff
[William Heinemann (UK), 7th / Riverhead (USA), 5th]
My review is in today's "Book Wars" column in Stylist magazine. Two major, connected threads in this superb story collection are ambivalence about Florida, and ambivalence about motherhood. The narrator of "The Midnight Zone," staying with her sons in a hunting camp 20 miles from civilization, ponders the cruelty of time and her failure to be sufficiently maternal, while the woman in "Flower Hunters" is so lost in an eighteenth-century naturalist's book that she forgets to get Halloween costumes for her kids. A few favorites of mine were "Ghosts and Empties," in which the narrator goes for long walks at twilight and watches time passing through the unwitting tableaux of the neighbors' windows; "Eyewall," a matter-of-fact ghost story; and "Above and Below," in which a woman slips into homelessness – it's terrifying how precarious her life is at every step. (Proof copy)
"What had been built to seem so solid was fragile in the face of time because time is impassive, more animal than human. Time would not care if you fell out of it. It would continue on without you." (from "The Midnight Zone")
"The wind played the chimney until the whole place wheezed like a bagpipe." (from "Eyewall")
"How lonely it would be, the mother thinks, looking at her children, to live in this dark world without them." (from "Yport")
The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder by Lisa Gungor
[Zondervan, 26th]
You're most likely to pick this up if you enjoy Gungor's music, but it's by no means a band tell-all. The big theme of this memoir is moving beyond the strictures of religion to find an all-encompassing spirituality. Like many Gungor listeners, Lisa grew up in, and soon outgrew, a fundamentalist Christian setting. She bases the book around a key set of metaphors: the dot, the line, and the circle. The dot was the confining theology she was raised with; the line was the pilgrimage she and Michael Gungor embarked on after they married at 19; the circle was the more inclusive spirituality she developed after their second daughter, Lucie, was born with Down syndrome and required urgent heart surgery. Being mothered, becoming a mother and accepting God as Mother: together these experiences bring the book full circle. Barring the too-frequent nerdy-cool posturing (seven mentions of "dance parties," and so on), this is a likable memoir for readers of spiritual writing by the likes of Sue Monk Kidd, Mary Oliver and Terry Tempest Williams. (Read via NetGalley on Kindle)
Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
[Oneworld, 7th] – see my full review.
Ok, Mr Field by Katharine Kilalea
Mr. Field is a concert pianist whose wrist was shattered in a train crash. With his career temporarily derailed, there's little for him to do apart from wander his Cape Town house, a replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, and the nearby coastal path. He also drives over to spy on his architect's widow, with whom he's obsessed. He's an aimless voyeur who's more engaged with other people's lives than with his own – until a dog follows him home from a graveyard. This is a strangely detached little novel in which little seems to happen. Like Asunder by Chloe Aridjis and Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner, it's about someone who's been coasting unfeelingly through life and has to stop to ask what's gone wrong and what's worth pursuing. It's so brilliantly written, with the pages flowing effortlessly on, that I admired Kilalea's skill. Her descriptions of scenery and music are particularly good. In terms of the style, I was reminded of books I've read by Katie Kitamura and Henrietta Rose-Innes. (Proof copy from Faber Spring Party)
This came out in the States (from Riverhead) back in early April, but releases here in the UK soon, so I've added it in as a bonus.
[Chatto & Windus, 7th]
An enjoyable story of twentysomethings looking for purpose and trying to be good feminists. To start with it's a fairly familiar campus novel in the vein of The Art of Fielding and The Marriage Plot, but we follow Greer, her high school sweetheart Cory and her new friend Zee for the next 10+ years to see the compromises they make as ideals bend to reality. Faith Frank is Greer's feminist idol, but she's only human in the end, and there are different ways of being a feminist: not just speaking out from a stage, but also quietly living every day in a way that shows you value people equally. I have a feeling this would have meant much more to me a decade ago, and the #MeToo-ready message isn't exactly groundbreaking, but I very much enjoyed my first taste of Wolitzer's sharp, witty writing and will be sure to read more from her. This seems custom-made for next year's Women's Prize shortlist. (Free from publisher, for comparison with Florida in Stylist "Book Wars" column.)
The four books in the bottom/left stack are the June releases I plan to read, three of them on assignment. The top two are Booker winners I vaguely hope to read before the 50th anniversary celebrations.
What June books do you have on the docket? Have you already read any that you can recommend?
campus novels
Caoilinn Hughes
Chad Harbach
Chloe Aridjis
Clémentine Beauvais
Elizabeth Garber
Katharine Kilalea
Lisa Gungor
novel in verse
She Writes Press
Sue Monk Kidd
Terry Tempest Williams
William Heinemann
Women's Prize
Woodie Garber
Two Mother–Daughter Author Pairs for Mother's Day
This coming Sunday is Mother's Day in the USA. (Mothering Sunday generally falls in March here in the UK, so every year I have to buy a card early to send to my mother back in the States, but I still associate Mother's Day with May.) Earlier in the year I got over halfway through a Goodreads giveaway book, Beyond the Pale by Emily Urquhart, before I realized its author was the daughter of a Canadian novelist I'd read before, Jane Urquhart. That got me thinking about other mother–daughter pairs that might be on my shelves. I found one in the form of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees plus an advance e-copy of her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor's upcoming debut novel, The Shark Club. (I've previously reviewed their joint memoir, Traveling with Pomegranates.) And, as a bonus, I have a mini-review of Graham Swift's novella Mothering Sunday: A Romance.
The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart
From 1986, this was Urquhart's first novel. Overall it reminded me of A. S. Byatt (especially The Virgin in the Garden) and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman. Set in 1889 on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, it features characters who, each in their separate ways, are stuck in the past and obsessed with death and its symbolic stand-in, the whirlpool. Maud Grady, the local undertaker's widow, takes possession of the corpses of those who've tried to swim the Falls. Her creepy young son starts off mute and becomes an expert mimic. Major David McDougal is fixated on the War of 1812, while his wife Fleda camps out in a tent reading Victorian poetry, especially Robert Browning, and awaiting a house that may never be built. Local poet Patrick sees Fleda from afar and develops romanticized ideas about her.
Each of these narratives is entertaining, but I was less convinced by their intersections – except for the brilliant scenes when Patrick and Maud's son engage in wordplay. In particular, I was unsure what the prologue and epilogue (in which Robert Browning, dying in Venice, is visited by images of Shelley's death by drowning) were meant to add. This is the second Urquhart novel I've read, after Sanctuary Line. I admire her writing but her plots don't always come together. However, I'm sure to try more of her work: I have a copy of Away on the shelf, and Changing Heaven (1990) sounds unmissable – it features the ghost of Emily Brontë! [Bought from a Lambeth charity shop for 20p.]
Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes, Emily Urquhart
In December 2010, the author's first child, Sadie, was born with white hair. It took weeks to confirm that Sadie had albinism, a genetic condition associated with extreme light sensitivity and poor eyesight. A Canadian folklorist, Urquhart is well placed to trace the legends that have arisen about albinos through time and across the world, ranging from the Dead Sea Scroll story of Noah being born with blinding white skin and hair to the enduring superstition that accounts for African albinos being maimed or killed to use their body parts in folk medicine.
She attends a NOAH (America's National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation) conference, discovers potential evidence of a family history of albinism, and even makes a pilgrimage to Tanzania to meet some victims. It's all written up in as engaging present-tense narrative of coming to terms with disability: to start with Urquhart is annoyed at people reassuring her "it could be worse," but by the end she's ever so slightly disappointed to learn that her second child, a boy, will not be an albino like his sister. [Goodreads giveaway copy]
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
It's hard to believe it was 15 years ago that this debut novel was an It book, and harder to believe that I'd never managed to get around to it until now. However, in some ways it felt familiar because I'd read a fair bit of background via Kidd's chapter in Why We Write about Ourselves and Traveling with Pomegranates, in which she and her daughter explored the Black Madonna tradition in Europe.
It joins unusual elements you wouldn't expect to find in fiction – beekeeping and the divine feminine – with more well-trodden territory: the Civil Rights movement in the South in the 1960s, unhappy family relationships, secrets, and a teenage girl's coming of age. Fourteen-year-old Lily is an appealing narrator who runs away from her memories of her mother's death and her angry father, peach farmer T. Ray. You can't help but fall in love with the rest of her new African-American, matriarchal clan, including their housekeeper, Rosaleen, who scandalizes the town by registering to vote, and the bee-keeping Boatwright sisters, August, June, and May, who give Lily and Rosaleen refuge when they skip town.
Although this crams in a lot of happenings and emotional ups and downs, it's a charming story that draws you into the brutal heat of a South Carolina summer and keeps you hoping Lily will forgive herself and slip into the rhythms of a purposeful life of sisterhood. [Secondhand purchase in America]
A favorite line: "The way people lived their lives, settling for grits and cow shit, made me sick."
The Shark Club, Ann Kidd Taylor
Dr. Maeve Donnelly loves sharks even though she was bitten by one as a child. She's now a leading researcher with a Florida conservancy and travels around the world to gather data. Her professional life goes from strength to strength, but her personal life is another matter. Aged 30, she's smarting from a broken engagement to her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, and isn't ready to open her heart to Nicholas, a British colleague going through a divorce.
Things get complicated when Daniel returns to their southwest Florida island to work as the chef at her grandmother's hotel – with his six-year-old daughter in tow. Maeve is soon taken with precocious Hazel, who founds the title club (pledge: "With this fin, I do swear. To love sharks even when they bite. When they lose their teeth, I will find them. When I catch one, I will let it go"), but isn't sure she can pick up where she left off with Daniel. Meanwhile, evidence has surfaced of a local shark finning operation, and she's determined to get to the bottom of it.
This is a little bit romance and a little bit mystery, and Taylor brings the Florida Keys setting to vibrant life. It took a while to suspend disbelief about Maeve's background – an orphan and a twin and a shark bite survivor and a kid brought up in a hotel? – but I enjoyed the sweet yet unpredictable story line. Nothing earth-shattering, but great light reading for a summer day at the beach. Releases June 6th from Viking. [Edelweiss download]
Mothering Sunday: A Romance, Graham Swift
If you're expecting a cozy tale of maternal love, let the Modigliani nude on the U.K. cover wipe that notion out of your mind. Part of me was impressed by Swift's compact picture of one sexy, fateful day in 1924 and the reverberations it had for a budding writer even decades later. Interesting class connotations, too. But another part of me thought, isn't this what you would get if Ian McEwan directed a middling episode of Downton Abbey? It has undeniable similarities to Atonement and On Chesil Beach, after all, and unlike those novels it's repetitive; it keeps cycling round to restate its main events and points. There's some good lines, but overall this felt like a strong short story stretched out to try to achieve book length. [Library read]
Ann Kidd Taylor
Emily Urquhart
Reading with Pomegranates
I spotted an odd coincidence the other week: I've read three books with the word 'pomegranate' in the title. It's not a word (or a fruit) you encounter every day, and it has some interesting metaphorical and mythological connections with womanhood that are worth exploring. Here, then, are those three books and some things they have in common:
Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother–Daughter Story, Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
In this unusual travel memoir, novelist Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor, a budding writer herself, swap reflections on their travels to sites in Greece and France associated with the sacred feminine and wonder what kind of women they want to be. Taylor's trip to Greece in college had been life-changing, even giving her the idea of becoming an ancient Greek scholar, but when she was rejected by her chosen graduate school it threw her for a loop and sparked a years-long depression that distanced her from her mother and her true self.
Meanwhile, Kidd had only written nonfiction at this point but longed to be a novelist and had initial plans for The Secret Life of Bees floating in her mind. She was able to reconnect with Taylor on this first trip to Greece, and bought them matching glass pomegranate charms to wear on necklaces as a salient reminder of the myth of Demeter rescuing her beloved daughter Persephone from the underworld. As they journeyed on to France looking for Black Madonna statues like the one at Rocamadour, both Kidd and Taylor turned secrets of the heart into wishes and promises expressed to the Goddess.
As they returned to South Carolina and Taylor prepared for marriage, Kidd transitioned from myth to fairy tales while pondering the turn of generations. The fact that Taylor wore Kidd's old wedding dress only underscored for her that "The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up." All the same, she was going through menopause and having to adjust to a new relationship with her body. "Perhaps all mothers of daughters possess a secret talking mirror that announces when their young womanhood begins to fade and their daughters' begin to blossom," she muses. "As in the fairy tale, the experience can unleash a lacerating jealousy in some mothers."
Pomegranates on the Greek island of Sími. By Karelj.
This is a book with vivid settings, carefully recreated scenes and dialogue, mythological echoes, and strong feminist themes. For both Kidd and Taylor, the struggle was to balance Hestia (a home life) with Athena or Joan of Arc (the intellect and sense of adventure). "I learned how easy it is to give up and become draperies while everyone else is dancing," Taylor laments. For both her and her mother, these travels in search of the sacred feminine were all about finding inner courage and acting on creative urges despite fear.
(Taylor gives her mother the first and last word; initially she was going to write up their journeys by herself, but later enlisted her mother's help to give the full story – or, being cynical, to have a big-name draw. It is a shame that Taylor hasn't managed to write anything else in all this time given that her writing is nearly as good as her mother's. I loved Kidd's The Invention of Wings but still haven't read Bees, her breakout novel, so this has whetted my appetite to finally pick that one up.)
By fir0002 | flagstaffotos.com.au [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the BRCA Gene, Sarah Gabriel
I read this perhaps nine years ago now; it was one of the first books – along with A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas and Without a Map by Meredith Hall – that really turned me on to memoirs, now one of my very favorite genres, and got me thinking about illness and death and how we respond to these in writing. Gabriel, an Oxford journalist, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 44; her mother had died of the same disease at age 42, when Gabriel was a teenager. Two years before the diagnosis, Gabriel had genetic testing and discovered that she had an inherited mutation on the BRCA gene that made cancer nearly inevitable for her.
Exploring her past and chronicling the grueling treatment process she underwent while raising two small children, Gabriel looks for meaning and connections in a life-and-death struggle. Like Traveling with Pomegranates, this book weaves in the mythology surrounding Persephone and Demeter, bringing with it themes of abandonment and the hope of escaping the pull of the underworld.
By Hans-Simon Holtzbecker (scanned from book) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Secrets of the Pomegranate, Barbara Lamplugh
I reviewed this debut novel for The Bookbag in April. As in the Kidd–Taylor book, themes of women's identity and creative bravery come through strongly. The title refers not only to the book's setting, the Spanish city of Granada (which literally means pomegranate), but also serves as a symbol for female fertility. Also, as Lamplugh revealed in my interview with her, "According to the Qu'ran, [the pomegranate] grows in the gardens of paradise" – which is important to the novel given the main character's study of Islamic women's history as well as her relationship with a Muslim man.
My rating: for all 3 books
Q: When is a fruit not just a fruit?
A: When it has as many symbolic and mythological associations as the pomegranate.
Have you noticed odd little connections between books before, whether their titles or themes? Share them in the comments below!
Barbara Lamplugh
Sarah Gilbert


Reserve 1 cup of cake mix for the crumble topping.
Combine remaining cake mix, melted butter, and egg to make a stiff dough. Pat dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan; set aside.
Combine partially thawed raspberries (you want them to be wet), Splenda, and flour. Spread evenly over the crust.
Combine reserved 1 cup of cake mix, 1/4 cup Splenda, softened butter, and cinnamon into a thick paste. Crumble evenly over the raspberry filling.
There are 28 grams of sugar in 24 ounces of raspberries so these bars can't legally be labeled sugar free (since they have more than 1 g of sugar).
I did finish up some human scale knitting, and blocked some human scale crochet, but I don't have photos yet. So instead you get to see more of Fiona.
Hujoo doesn't use s-hooks in these dolls, so until I get around to restringing her I can't just take off her head to dress her like I do with my other dolls. Because of that, and the fact that I am not a fan of bulky fasteners like snaps and velcro (which is not great with knitting anyway), I had to come up with a neckline that would allow me to dress her feet first. However, I didn't want the neckline to be super large and open either. I think I succeeded with this design, which has "tabs" on the front and back that overlap in the shoulder in the sleeve cap area. At this scale the overlap is kind of like having a shoulder pad in there, but I think it looks okay.
I'm going to knit another to streamline the process; picking up for a tiny sleeve in the round while overlapping bits was fiddly to say the least. After that, maybe I will write this one up as a pattern for sale. We shall see.
However, if you are like me you don't keep self-rising flour on hand, so it's really four ingredients. Also, I made disks rather than tori with them, to better fit a bison burger.
Additional flour for kneading / adjusting texture.
Optional: Egg-wash and topping sprinkles. I used a salad sprinkle similar to Johnny's Salad Elegance.
Preheat oven to 350°F (325°F if using a convection oven).
If you aren't using self-rising flour, mix the baking powder and salt into your all-purpose flour.
Mix the yogurt into the flour. After a point it will not mix well, so turn it out onto a floured surface and knead it for a few minutes until everything is well mixed; dust in additional flour if it gets too sticky.
Divide the dough into 6-8 pieces and shape as desired.
Place on non-stick baking sheet and brush with egg-wash and sprinkle with topping mix if you are using it.
The drink that is. I just decided to try making one based on instructions I found on the internet, but lazier.
Not in the original, but nice: a splash of half & half. You could use vanilla creamer instead and skip the syrup and dairy.
Drop the tea bag in the mug, half fill with boiling water. Let steep 5 minutes.
Shake your almond milk really well and fill the rest of the mug, leaving a bit of space for vanilla syrup.
Add vanilla syrup and stir vigorously. Taste and adjust as needed.
Decide it could be warmer and microwave 30 seconds.
Decide it could use a bit of creaminess and add a splash of half & half.
In the future I will steep a bit longer, I like a stronger tea flavor, but this is Very Nice.
ETA: Steeped for 8 minutes when I made it again and liked it much better.
Originally posted on my new Pillowfort blog.
We have jumbo eggs, and sometimes they have two yokes. This particular cake therefore had four eggs in the mix with five egg yolks. The texture turned out to be just what I want in a devil's food cake.
Had to get my passport renewal in the mail, which meant a photo. Which of course meant my skin decided to break out. :P But! I managed to Do The Makeup well enough to make my skin look clear, so it is probably my least UGH! mug shot to date. So net result... yay?
Then, since I had make up on I figured I'd get some use out of it and not just go home afterward. I was the most over dressed woman returning cans at Meijer, but it gave me nearly $10 to browse with, No joy on the takoyaki flour front (foo!) but I found sugar free chocolate chips (yay!) so I bought two bags, a bag of sugar free Reese's cups, and still got almost $3 back. Another net yay from that stop.
Then I went to Payless. I don't really have a need for new shoes but I like to see what they have. I wouldn't have found those knee high boots a couple years ago if I hadn't after all. I walk in and... NO size 13s. FOO! I mostly take 12w, which they still had a few of, though not many of the 12s were also wide, but the complete lack of size 13 is dispiriting. Sure, they do let you order on the site for delivery to the store where you can try on and get a refund, but it sort of misses the whole point of being able to browse and try things on that you might not have considered (like those boots of mine). It also requires you to buy the shoes just to try them on. So no impulse shoe purchases anymore, which may be for the best, but it does kill what little fun there had been in shoe shopping these last few years.
Opted to have an infected molar extracted rather than pour money and painful time into killing the infection and having a root canal and crown. As the dentist put it, missing one tooth won't bother me and putting the money into restoring the other teeth would be money better spent.
I just wish anesthetic and painkillers didn't metabolize so fast with me. I wasn't even out of the office before the gaping hole where the tooth used to be started itching and aching.
It was time for a change, especially since this is now my main journal and not just a mirror. I wasn't up for doing a lot of customization but I did tweak things a bit, mostly font faces and sizes, making page navigation more visible, and recoloring the navbar.
I should probably think up a journal title and subtitle to help fill up that big horizontal bar of darkness across the top, but I am really bad at that sort of thing.
And depression. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Anyway, the only duplicates left should have comments on them.
I'll figure out what I'm doing with LJ now that I don't need to keep it for importing purposes. I'm leaning toward deleting the content, putting up a "find me on Dreamwidth" post and just keeping it to read communities and people that just will not move.
In preparation for leaving LJ I'm importing my posts and comments from accounts there. The doll related posts from Spiraling Deeper have already been imported (there were only about five; archived things from other sites) and the main account of TephraLynn is in the import queue now.
Unfortunately, I have been using Semagic to crosspost to DW, LJ, and IJ since created my DW account. This means that all posts from that date forward will be duplicated here. I plan to go through and delete any duplicate with no comments but there will be duplicates remaining that have comments from both sites. Unless DW comes up with a way for me to merge those specific posts the duplicates will remain.
On the upside, now that I won't have three sites to sync I can choose to crosspost from DW to IJ if I wish.
Back in December I tried out an Amish mustard eggs recipe, with a couple modifications. The primary change being the omission of sugar since I can't eat it anymore and, more importantly, I hate sweet pickled things. They ended up pretty tasty and I grew to like having eggs to snack on since I should be cutting out more carbs than I am. (I swear the medical professionals think people need to live off water and air with the occasional poached chicken breast.) As a result of this new-found self-knowledge I am working on collecting/inventing a variety of pickled egg recipes. At the moment I only have two, and some pickled onions, but expect more eventually, such as the classic pickled-with-beets since Hafoc turns out not to be a fan of pickled eggs and his dislike of beets is therefore irrelevant.
Because you cannot be certain you have heated the eggs all the way through to the proper temperature, the USDA does not recommend home canning eggs. Botulism is not your friend so these are "refrigerator pickle" recipes.
Since you aren't canning the eggs you can use saved jars or bowls, whatever works in your fridge and keeps the eggs submerged in the brine. One dozen small to medium eggs should fit in a quart jar. I can get 8-10 large eggs in my saved not-quite-a-quart pickle jars so I don't usually make a full dozen eggs and dispose of my extra brine (or save it to make salad dressing).
Pack the onions and eggs into a wide mouth jar or two.
Combine the brine ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a low simmer. Simmer 10 minutes and then carefully pour over your eggs. Let cool and then refrigerate for at least three days for best flavor.
The onions from the mustard eggs were really tasty on burgers and in sandwiches.
Use the same method as the Amish eggs, but add the garlic to the eggs and onions. I just heaped it on top and let the brine carry it down through them when I added it.
These are not as pretty as the mustard eggs, but very tasty! It's my own recipe and I'm not 100% sold on five spice, I'm not a huge fan of anise, so I expect I will be trying other seasonings. The soy sauce adds all the salt you want for a pickled egg, so salted flavorings are not suggested.
Sometimes Hafoc comes home with a new things from the supermarket to try. One of his recent finds was Tajin, a blend of dried chilies, salt, and dehydrated lime juice. It is very, very lime and not that spicy. We're not sure what we're going to use it all for, it's strong, but I thought it would make tasty chili-lime pickled onions. I was right, and I expect I will make other chili-lime pickled veggies in the future.
Pack the onions into a jar and add the Tajin seasoning on top. Pour in the vinegar and then top off with boiling water. Seal, shake the jar to distribute the chili flakes, and refrigerate for a few days before eating.
You want to have the vinegar be about 1/3rd of the liquid in the jar, the powdered lime juice in the Tajin makes up the rest of the acid for the pickles. My jar needed 3/4 cup of water, so in practice it worked out to 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/4 cup lime juice (from the Tajin and water), and 1/2 cup water.
There is enough acid in these pickles that you could can them and not have to refrigerate them until after you opened a jar. They are so quick to make that I wouldn't bother though since they are perfectly edible in a few hours and just improve with time.
Though the lack of energy and sheer don't wanna I am fighting is saying I really shouldn't have. Last year had extenuating circumstances to keep me from trying but really, my last several NaNo attempts, though "successful", were fairly joyless slogs and maybe I should just stop. I don't like thinking that I only had about five novels in me, and not even completed ones, but maybe that's just it. I still generate characters at the drop of a hat, at least when not in the worst of my emotional lows, but they don't seem to have stories attached.
Anyway, I finally started to get a handle on this year. Not a great one, but I knocked around the edges, flipped things over and inside out then shook it until I might have found a point to grab and start hauling in the direction of a plot. So of course my hands have chosen now to start aching like hell when I type.


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News > UEIPO Rules Out LA MAFIA Trademark is Null
Mars Inc. has lost a trademark dispute in Sweden over m&m's trademark
Why the Rubik's Cube Three-dimensional Trade Mark is revoked?
UEIPO Rules Out LA MAFIA Trade Mark is Null
A new stage in the LA MAFIA case has taken place in October 2016 with the la mafia trademark r0803 2016 first board of appeal confirming the invalidity of the "LA MAFIA se sienta ala mesa" trademark.
LA MAFIA FRANCHISES, S.L. with its Zaragoza Headquarters has filed for an appeal after in March 2016 the UEIPO Cancellation Division decision revoked LA MAFIA trade mark (n 5510921) following Italy's request.
Italy, represented by its Ambassador in Spain, Mr. Sebastiani, as opponent claimed the trade mark was "contrary to public order and to established principles of morality", as the term referred to a criminal organization. The Cancellation Division upheld the request for a declaration of the invalidity and declared the invalidity of the contested European Union Trade Mark in its entity. The Division has motivated its Decision by affirming that the trade mark produces "the impression of a possible conviviality with crime" and that "the semantic content is deeply offensive".
The trade mark proprietor has founded its defense of the disputed trade mark on the general minimization of the negative connotation and claiming that the opponent was acting as "an extremely sensible person", so it could not be considered as an "average consumer".
For the Board of Appeal of the UEIPO the "appeal was not well founded" and it has dismissed the appeal, confirming the invalidity of the LA MAFIA trade mark. The Appellant, as a loosing party, is supposed to bear the representation costs.
Though it is the second Italian victory over the disputed trade mark, the case might pass to a further stage in the European Court of Justice or in a Spanish Court where the Italian authorities and the Ambassador in Spain could also seek an order to impede the use of the trade mark.
Curiously, it seems like just a year before the Mafia's infamy hit an Austrian bar, which introduced in their menu the sandwiches named after Mafia murder victims (like names of judges killed in bomb attacks) causing a diplomatic incident between Vienna and Rome.
It is not that uncommon to find Italian-style products with references to the criminal organization: starting from Bulgarian-made "Mafiozzo" coffee, British "Chilli Mafia" snack, German "Palermo Mafia shooting" spices or the Bruxelles "SauceMaffioso" for the pasta.
However despite the Spanish food chain was not innovative in its referral to Mafia, they have brought the mafia-referenced trademark use on a completely different level, basing all of their branding and marketing efforts on an infamy and villainy of the Mafia operations playing around and tricking consumers' consciousness. The group counts about 40 restaurants and 400 employees in Sapin.
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