Mike Nolan
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The advanced search feature has the ability to search specific areas (ie, recipes only) or tye author field, but in the case of something posted by someone else with the original author's name as a reference, that's just a free text search.
I don't think shaboom was ever a member of this site.
I've tried to contact Zen to see if I could get access to her archive, but she hasn't responded to my emails, maybe she's not online these days? Anybody in touch with her?
Historically, libraries would accept donations, sort through them and keep only the ones they wanted, the rest they would either sell off or just throw in the trash. (Selling them off requires storage space, publicizing and holding the sale, etc.)
Libraries have started becoming something other than repositories of dead trees (paper books), so I've heard they're less receptive to donations.
A curated collection is something else, but that generally requires a cash donation to support the curation process. The John G. White collection in the Cleveland Public Library has several hundred thousand books on two subjects, magic and chess, but it also has an endowment that supports several staff members.
I'm planning stuffed peppers for tonight.
Here in Lincoln the retired teachers and school administrators organization used to hold an annual used book sale, but it was discontinued a few years ago, because there weren't enough people willing to do the behind-the-scenes work of collecting, sorting and grading all the books during the year. I think they also had a problem with their storage space.
I think the library system still does a used book sale, but I don't know when it is.
I've got a rather extensive cookbook collection these days and I'm not sure what I want done with it after I'm gone. I know better than to offer it to either the city or university library system.
Jeffrey says he's revised a number of recipes, added a few new ones and made quite a few changes in the front matter. He retired from King Arthur a couple of years ago and has been getting reacquainted with home baking.
Aside from having a number of editions of The Joy of Cooking (IMHO the best ones were the ones in the 40's), I seldom have much interest in a new edition of a cookbook.
I am willing to make an exception for the upcoming 3rd edition of Hamelman's bread book, though.
Has anyone tried making fan tan rolls up, putting them in the pan, then refrigerating them overnight? I'd like to make some of the maple-and-sugar ones for breakfast, but I really want something I can just take out of the fridge and put in the oven after it preheats.
I'm also wondering if they can be cut, frozen, then taken out of the freezer and put in the pans to defrost overnight.
FWIW, here's what the AKC says about dog-safe fruits and vegetables:
Wound up having takeout pizza.
Easy was the order of the day here, too, so we had tomato soup and fried cheese sandwiches using Cabot Seriously Sharp white cheddar.
Cold and wet here again today, something warm for supper sounds good.
Using old bread has some similarities to the tangzhong process, the starch in the old bread has already been gelatinized.
I've used an altus in making rye bread, it does seem to affect texture.
Non-profits are on some politicians' radar, too, mostly because they have the audacity to think they can do more good than the government can. One idea that might get done quickly is to have sundown dates on any foundations, eg, they have 10 or 20 years to spend all their money. (Of course they'll exempt some entities from this.)
We have our second doses scheduled for this Friday, I'm hoping neither of us have much problems with it. The first round went smoothly.
The truly wealthy have always had access to many ways to shield income from the taxman, that's a large part of the reason why the tax code is several billion words long. And that won't change any time soon, neither party is interested in upsetting their big donors.
When I was taking my business law course in grad school, our professor (a CPA as well as a lawyer and accounting prof) had us go look up a number of laws. One of them was one passed before 1950 (it was still on the books) that had to do with exempting certain one-time payments from taxable income.
This particular part of the tax code has only ever been used once, by Louis B. Mayer (of MGM), who reportedly made a large donation to get it included.
I'm all for finding ways to tax billionaires, I'm just concerned that it won't really work, and that they won't stop there. As I noted before, the two largest pools of wealth in this country aren't the stock holdings of the billionaires and millionaires, they're the homes we own and our retirement plans. And certain politicians are already eyeing taxing IRAs and 401-K's.
The Wall Street Journal had a story today citing a study that concluded the very wealthy have been far more successful in shielding their income from taxes than anyone thought. How? Through the tax code.
We had some salad, some steamed broccoli, and bagels. The bagels and the corned beef are all gone now, time to cook/bake.
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