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The Bear's Birthday

Happy Birthday Bear!

May your special day be all you wish for and may all your wishes come true.
 
Another fellow Aries! Happy Birthday, Bear, and happy retirement. :kiss: :kiss:
 
Happy Birthday, youngster.

May your retirement be long and so full of activity that you wonder how you ever found time to work.

Og
 
Happy Birthday Bear

Retirement?

Look at the honeydo list before you take the plunge. ;)
 
Happy Birthday, Bear; and many more of them!
HP
 
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What a nice coincidence!

On this day in 1932 James Joyce wrote to Random House's Bennett Cerf a famous letter detailing the tribulations of getting his novel Ulysses published. It was written in lieu of an Author's Preface, to be included in the first legal edition of Ulysses in the English-speaking world, the version published by Random House in 1934.

Ulysses had been in print for 10 years by the time Joyce wrote this letter. It was published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, but the book was banned in the English-speaking world. Plenty of Americans were reading the book anyway — they were buying bootlegged copies printed by unscrupulous printers — and Joyce had spent the last decade deprived of his rightful royalties as his book's popularity surged.

Someone suggested to Joyce that he could avoid legal trouble by publishing an expurgated version of his novel Ulysses, doing away with the passages deemed offensive. Joyce turned to him and replied: " My book has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Which would you like to cut off?"

Even though it would subject him to criminal prosecution, Bennett Cerf decided that he wanted Random House to legally publish Ulysses in the U.S. He sent word to James Joyce explaining his intentions, and Joyce responded with a famous letter on this day in 1932, which began:

Dear Mr. Cerf,
I thank you very much for your message. ... You ask me for details of the story of the publication of Ulysses and since you are determined to fight for its legalisation in the United States and to publish what will be the only authentic edition there, I think it just as well to tell you the history of its publication in Europe and the complications which followed it in America.
... You are surely well aware of the difficulties I found in publishing anything I wrote from the very first volume of prose I attempted to publish: Dubliners.
...Without the collaboration of the Egoist Press Ltd. London, conducted by Miss Harriet Weaver, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man might still be in manuscript.
... I wish you all possible success in your courageous venture ...

After he received this letter from Joyce, Bennett Cerf devised a test case, a legal battle that would result in the removal of the ban on the book. He arranged for a copy of Ulysses to be sent from Paris, and he told customs officials working at the docks to make sure to seize it. But when the ship arrived, the people at customs enforcement did not want to bother seizing it since, they said, everybody brought that book. Cerf had to convince them to seize a copy of the book so that he could have a court battle.
But even then, the government attorney who was assigned to prosecute the case did not want to have to do the prosecuting — he himself felt that Joyce's book was "a literary masterpiece" even if it was obscene according the language of the law. Eventually, he brought an unenthusiastic lawsuit in district court in New York.

Judge John Woolsey wrote the famous decision, in which he said that with "respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring."

So Ulysses was now legally not obscene and could be published in the United States, the first legal publication of the novel in an English-speaking country. Bennett Cerf heard the verdict, and 10 minutes later he had the typesetters at Random House working on Ulysses.
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I think the bear after the bird feeder showed great initiative. And her upper body strength is pretty good, too! :D
 
Tonight, in celebration of my reaching retirement age (even though I won't actually retire until June) I am making Phish Philadelphia. It is a labor of love, requiring more ingredients than I usually allow into my dishes, and more work than I am usually willing to put out. However, this recipe is so rich, so decadent that once in a while I simply cannot resist.

To wit:



Fish in Philadelphia Sauce
O.K. This one is a little tricky. Not because it’s difficult, you understand but because I don’t have any exact measurements and haven’t bothered to cook it often enough to come up with the “optimum”. However, it comes out great. The story goes like this.

In San Felipe, Baja California del Norte, there is a motel called the Pescador and in the Pescador Motel is the Baja Mar restaurant. The chef there is classically trained and I suspect that something like this recipe is original to him and that he probably made it up as his senior thesis or something. I’ve eaten it twice, once with grouper and once with white sea bass. The first is good, the latter will make your mouth think it has died and gone to Heaven. I watched it being made on Dale Pearson’s video Gone to Baja: Treasures in Gonzaga and tried to cobble it together myself. While this isn’t the exact “real thing” it’s damned good. Remember, the measurements are very approximate!


The Sauce
2 Tbs. olive oil
½ onion, chopped
½ green bell pepper, chopped
1/3 cup baby carrots, chopped
2 Tbs. each Italian parsley and cilantro
1 tomato, seeded and chopped
½ lb. sliced mushrooms
¼ cup dry sherry
¼ cup (more or less) water
2 Tbs. flour
1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
salt and pepper

The Fish
Cut the fillet of the fish into long strips about 2” wide.

Cut a slice off the end of a “cube” of Philadelphia cream Cheese and wrap the fillet around it, like a cinnamon roll.

Wrap a strip of partially cooked bacon around the roll and hole the whole thing together with a bamboo skewer.


In a preheated pan, pour the oil and heat until fragrant. Add all the onion, bell pepper, carrots, herbs, and tomato and stir until all the vegetables are mixed with the oil. Let it cook until the onions are just translucent then add the mushrooms and garlic. Stir for about 15 seconds then add the sherry. Cover and let cook for a bit. Sprinkle the flour over the whole thing and stir it in, then add the cream and the water stirring until you have a sauce that is the consistency you prefer. Put the fish wheels into the sauce, spoon the sauce over them, cover, reduce to simmer and cook for about 20 minutes or until the fish is properly cooked. Season to taste. Place the fish on dinner plates, spoon some of the sauce over the top and put the rest into a sauce or gravy boat. Serve with lots of steamed rice and pour the sauce over that. Accompany with a big green salad and either champagne or a slightly sweet white wine, Riesling or Gewürztraminer, perhaps.


I will serve the extra sauce over whole grain linguine and accompany it with a large green salad and Riesling. Dessert will be liquid.
 
Burp! The fish was as good as usual--though on occasion, with a better species, it's been outstanding.
 
Happy birthday, old Bear. You are in all of our thoughts.

Amy
 
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