Jackie thanking America for their letters after Jack was killed. This was in early ‘64.
She aged a good five years in the span of a few months. Grief just ages you.
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How were you first approached about Back to the Future?
Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale, who produced, directed and wrote the film respectively, asked for a meeting. We went to Amblin Entertainment in Los Angles. They said, “Look, we’ve written this film, and the lead character is this teenager, Marty McFly. His favorite band would be Huey Lewis and the News. Would you like to write a song?” I said, “I’m flattered, but I’ve never written for a film. We’ll send you the next thing we write.” That was “Power of Love.” I didn’t think it would work since there was no love interest in the film, but clearly they used it pretty well.
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9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World
All you Bond villains looking for a stylish evil operations base, take note.
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“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”
- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl
This is an amazing idea.
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Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
Baking chocolate was melted before its incorporation into cookie dough until the 1930s, when Wakefield, the owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, created the “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie,” which later became known as the chocolate chip cookie. Her original recipe, from Toll House Tried and True Recipes, calls for cutting bars of Nestlé semisweet chocolate into very small pieces, which are then added to a basic butter cookie dough. When sales of semisweet chocolate soared in New England, Nestlé investigated, and the company began producing scored chocolate bars packaged with a small chopper. In 1939, the company introduced semisweet chocolate morsels and signed a contract with Wakefield allowing the company to print her recipe on every package. The shortcut formula for adding chocolate to cookies was a big success, and the chocolate chip continues its reign as America’s favorite homemade cookie.From the “Cookies” entry by Becky Mercuri in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, Second Edition, edited by Andrew F. Smith. The entire entry is available to read for free until the end of the month.
And stay tuned for pictures from OUP USA office bake-offs!
Photo by Alice Northover, cookies by Alana Podolsky for Oxford University Press.
I bake one of the best chocolate chip cookies ever. I add pecans to them now, though, so technically they’re chocolate chip and pecan. They’re so addictive. Family members fight over their containers. Not even kidding.
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