Good Eatin': Olives
Some nights, the six olives in the martinis are all there is to eat, so it's probably worthwhile to know all there is to know. Plus, you may want to grow your own. Ari Weinzweig's Guide to Good Olives from PBS' 
Splendid Table has descriptions of varieties of olives listed by country of origin (Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Israel, North Africa, Morocco, and the U.S.). For the Love of Olives also lays out various varieties (such as kalamata, manzanilla, and sevillano), curing methods, classification (green, pink, black, wrinkled black), and fun facts. Good Enough To Eat: Olives Drab? Grow or Cure Your Own (the title is longer than the article) has detailed info on curing olives kalamata-style, using a salt solution, vinegar, and herbs. The website for Museo dell' Olivo (located in Imperia, Italy) has a history of the olive tree and information about olive cultivation and oil production, plus a virtual tour of the museum, a brief discussion of the role of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet, and images of olive pits, oil lamps, tree, harvesting, and olive oil production equipment. Finally, closer top home, Olive is a fact sheet on the fruit, focusing on varieties grown commercially in California. ("Virtually all U.S. commercial olive production is concentrated in California's Central Valley, with a small pocket of olive acreage outside Phoenix"), and covering growth, pruning, harvest, and related topics.
Splendid Table has descriptions of varieties of olives listed by country of origin (Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Israel, North Africa, Morocco, and the U.S.). For the Love of Olives also lays out various varieties (such as kalamata, manzanilla, and sevillano), curing methods, classification (green, pink, black, wrinkled black), and fun facts. Good Enough To Eat: Olives Drab? Grow or Cure Your Own (the title is longer than the article) has detailed info on curing olives kalamata-style, using a salt solution, vinegar, and herbs. The website for Museo dell' Olivo (located in Imperia, Italy) has a history of the olive tree and information about olive cultivation and oil production, plus a virtual tour of the museum, a brief discussion of the role of olive oil in the Mediterranean diet, and images of olive pits, oil lamps, tree, harvesting, and olive oil production equipment. Finally, closer top home, Olive is a fact sheet on the fruit, focusing on varieties grown commercially in California. ("Virtually all U.S. commercial olive production is concentrated in California's Central Valley, with a small pocket of olive acreage outside Phoenix"), and covering growth, pruning, harvest, and related topics.
posted by John Gabree at 6/29/2006
China that those of you who are beginning to look fondly back on Henry Kissinger will remember was undertaken during the Nixon administration. A personal account of the 1971 adventure, considered to be a turning point in improvements in U.S.-China relations on a par with the president's getting drunk on mai tais plied by Chairman Mao, the essay includes photos from the trip. The site is the home of USA Table Tennis, "the national organizing body for table tennis in the United States." <
In the 1830s and 1840s, George Catlin journeyed throughout the American West documenting the transformation and destruction of Native American cultures, particularly of those forced to leave the southeast as of a result of the Indian Removal Act. Thirty-two of his paintings out of the more than 500 in the Smithsonian's collection are featured in this exhibit, including those of several prominent Mandan chiefs and General William Clark. <
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John Heartfield, who was active "in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the two world wars...[and who] developed a unique method of appropriating and using photographs to powerful political effect," includes a discussion of his creative development from roots in the Dadaist movement, and selected images such as "Adolf [Hitler], the Superman, Swallows Gold and Spouts Tin." <
The Space Technology Hall of Fame honors "the innovators who have transformed technology originally developed for space into commercial products." The award began in 1988, and descriptions of all the technologies inducted since then can be browsed by year. <
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This Cornell University Library exhibition traces the development of ornithological illustration from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography in the 18th and 19th centuries. The site has a timeline of artists and authors, a guide to the collections of bird pictures at Cornell, and a bibliography. <
Great South American street-art locale -- stencils, graffiti, t-shirts, etc. (in Spanish). <
you design and print your own paper cd/dvd cases without reinveting the wheel. Enter the artist, title, and tracks; select type, paper, and font; click "Create CD Case;" do a little folding; and, simple as that, you have a cd/dvd case that takes less room to store and won't snap at the hinges. Or enter your artist and/or title in the appropriate search line and you stand a pretty good chance of having the cuts filled in for you. Advanced capabilities include optional graphics and an address label. Still too much work?: Search the archived cd cases and you may find your album has already been done. <
recorded sandwich" -- introduced in the 1st century B.C. by a rabbi as a Passover custom "sandwiching a mixture of chopped nuts, apples, spices, and wine between two matzohs;" the crucial contribution of the 4th Earl of Sandwich; and links to background on specific creations, such as the muffuletta, the hoagie, the gyro, the hamburger, and similar gustatory delights. <
We loved our Osbornes. We loved our Kaypros. But most of all, we loved our Ataris. The Atari History Museum is dedicated to a company that has been a leader in both computer development and computer gaming for over 30 years. <
diversity of America's edible plants, animals, and food traditions," Renewing America's Food Traditions lists such endangered foods as the Seminole pumpkin, the Marshall strawberry, white abalone, and the American chestnut. Produced by Slow Food USA, an international non-profit that protects taste, culture and the environment as universal social values, the site also includes "Seafood Traditions at Risk in North America," "Guide to Seafood of the Seri Indians," and a map of America's regional foods. <
has created a space of reflection and learning. This exhibition, donated by Restrepo to Handicap International, is made entirely in the color white, where textures are the way to discover the wonder of the tactile perception. This is a contribution to the human effort to include blind people, that simultaneously raises interesting ways for the expression and definition of 'the visual' arts. The exhibition, which is currently at the Museo Universitario, in Medellin, Colombia, does not rely on information written in ink. The sighted depend on blind guides that give information to them about the artist and the titles of each work...since the labels are written in Braille. The room altogether is sober and creates an authentic installation." -- The rest of the story: 
