[Sca-cooks] Canape & other Trivia

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 TRIVIA
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The origin of the word canape is a curious one. In ancient Greece, a
'konops' was a mosquito. Hang curtains around a couch to keep the mosquitos
away and they called it a 'konopion'.  The Romans adapted this word as
'conopeum', which shows up later in Medieval Latin as 'canopeum", and from
there makes its way into Middle English as 'canope' as the name for the
curtain, and eventually spelled canopy. The French used the word 'canape'
for the couch, rather than the curtain. Some thought a piece of toast topped
with a savory food looked like a couch (canape) and so the word took on an
additional meaning in French, and we have now borrowed the word into
English.

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November 17, 2004     Vol 5 #38   ISSN 1535-5659
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PUMPKIN BISQUE RECIPE
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FRESH CRANBERRY RELISH COMPOTE RECIPE
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SWEET POTATO PUREE RECIPE
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 CULINARY CALENDAR - A Few Selected Events

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
1307 William Tell shot an apple from his son's head.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
1961 Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared,
and was presumed eaten by the cannibals of New Guinea.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20
1820 A whaling ship, the Essex, was rammed twice by a sperm whale and
eventually sank.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21
1941 'King Biscuit Time' radio show was first broadcast from Helena,
Arkansas. It is the longest running daily radio program in history,
broadcasting live blues music, interviews, etc. It is named for its sponsor,
King Biscuit Flour.  The ‘King Biscuit Flour Hour’ rock and roll radio
program took its name from 'King Biscuit Time.'

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22
1967 Arlo Guthrie's ballad/song 'Alice's Restaurant' was released.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
1921 President Harding signed the Willis Campell Act, which prohibits
doctors from prescribing beer or liquor.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
1762 The first written record of the word 'sandwich'. Edward Gibbons
Journal, 11/24/1762: 'I dined at the Cocoa Tree....That respectable body
affords every evening a sight truly English. Twenty or thirty of the first
men in the kingdom....supping at little tables....upon a bit of cold meat,
or a Sandwich.'

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Happy Thanksgiving!
1940 Woody Woodpecker made his debut in the cartoon 'Knock Knock.'