[bksvol-discuss] Re: National Potato Chip Day

  • From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:02:18 -0400

I love chips, especially barbecue ones. This is a great day, but I don't happen 
to have any in my house at the moment with which to celebrate it. Very 
unfortunate! Shakespeare's tragedies are as nothing in comparison!

Evan

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chela Robles 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:48 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: National Potato Chip Day


  Wow!
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  "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you 
forever. It's one thing to be melancholy and one thing to be sophisticated, but 
when you get the two of them together in a way people can relate to, then I 
think you're on to something. You want the sophistication to lie in the purity 
of the sound, the beauty of the arrangements, and the quality of the 
performances."-Trumpeter Chris Botti
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  Chela Robles
  E-Mail: cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jamie Yates, CPhT 
    To: Bookshare Volunteers 
    Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:20 AM
    Subject: [bksvol-discuss] National Potato Chip Day


    Yes, today is national Potato Chip day! Eat some chips! And wait a week or 
so and this book will be in the collection:
    The Greatest Potatos by Penelope Stowell
    Booklist Review 
    Gr. 1-3. Who knew that potato chips were invented in an attempt to cook the 
worst-tasting potatoes on Earth? This dynamic picture book is based on the true 
story of George Crum, an African American fry cook at a restaurant in Saratoga, 
New York, who, in 1853, did exactly that. It all starts when finicky 
millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt embarks on a mission to discover the greatest 
potato dish ever. Mr. Vanderbilt arrives at Moon's Lake restaurant, and George 
serves him French fries, and then hash browns, with no success: Utterly 
inedible! Even the Congress Hall hash browns had more constitution. Down to his 
last spud, the disgusted Crum decides to give the Commodore something inedible, 
deliberately overcooking and oversalting. Well, Vanderbilt can't eat just one, 
and the rest is history. Lively ink-and--watercolor illustrations capture 
Crum's culinary attempts (French fries stacked in an Eiffel Tower) with 
creativity. The jokes sometimes seem a bit sophisticated, but the story is fun 
and animated, the subject appealing. An author's note, a potato chip recipe, 
and a selected bibliography are appended. --Karin Snelson Copyright 2005 
Booklist From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, 
Inc. 


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