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Zurich Herald, 1957-04-25, Page 6This Brave Main Ate A Tomato In Newport, Rhode Island, stands a monument to a brave man. With calm heroism he ate a tomato.. No American had eaten a to- mato until the bright day in 1833 when gallant Michele Felice Corne plunged his teeth into one. He had been warned, not to do it for the "love apple," as it was then called was believed to contain deadly poison. Today, many people visit the monument. The majority of them are tomato -growers or can- ners, who owe their prosperity to Corne's daring. Also on Rhode Island is a fine nnemorial to a hen — the original Rhode Island Red. And recently a statue was erected in America to the memory of Joseph Priest- ly because he manufacted the first soda water. However, these are not really unusual monuments. Not so very long ago a stone nnonument was erected to 100,- 000 frogs which had been dis- sected by Japanese students at Keio University, Tokyo. It is claimed to be the world's only frog monument, Even the humble caterpillar can boast a monument a king might envy. The Cactoblastis Memorial Hall at Boonarga, Queensland, was erected to the memory of the Australian cater- pillar, which spends its life des- troying the prickly pear cactus. Little more than 100 years ago the . Mormon pioneers settled down in Utah Valley in the Uni- ted States. Misfortune had dealt them many bitter blows, but after a time the wheat -fields produced a bountiful yield. Then a dark cloud in the form of Iocusts appeared. All seemed lost as they started to devour the crops, but suddenly from out of the blue came a drove of sea- gulls from the Great Salt Lake. They pounced on the invaders and the harvest was saved. Years afterwards, in 1913, a monument in honour of the sea- gulls was unveiled in Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Ever hear of a memorial which recalls a pest? It happen CRYSTAL GAZING' -- After run- ning his winnings on the TV quiz show "The $64,000 Ques- tion" up to $160,000, largest amount ever won on a single. TV quiz show. Robert Strom, 10, looks into the future by us- big a balloon as a crystal ball in New York. Robert has a chance to boost his earnings in the forthcoming weeks up to a total of $256,000. ed in Westmorland where, in 1841, the hamlet of Week suf- fered a severe plague' of wasps, A memorial stone to mark the occasion was erected nearby on the moor. Since then an annual proces- sion has been made to the stone, wherea brief service is held. Afterwards, a wholesale attack is made on all the wasps' nests in. the district. But the most elaborate case on record of insect commemoration was the funeral staged by the Roman poet, Virgil, for his pet house -fly. The cost of interment was $65,000, and the ceremony tools place from Virgil's town house in Rome, The chief mourners were friends of Octavian, after- wards the Emperor Augustus. A lengthy funeral oration was de- livered in front of the fly's golden coffin. Dogs also have their memori- als. In a railway station in To- kyo is the statue of a curly- haired dog — once the compan- ion of a professor of the Imper- ial University. Each day the professor and his dog would walk to the sta- tion. The professor boarded the train and the dog returned to his kennel. Then each evening the dog returned to greet his master. But one day the profes- sor did not return. He had died at the university. For eight long years the dog went each day to the station, watched till nightfall, and then returned home. When he, too, died, the story of his steadfast affection swept Japan. A statue, erected by public subscription, was unveiled on the spot where the dog had kept his long ren- dezvous. Of the many strange statues in the world, one is unique in that it was erected to a single human leg. The leg belonged to the Marquess of Anglesey, a ca- valry officer and Lord Lieuten- ant of Ireland. He was very proud of his legs. When one was shot away at the Battle of Waterloo, he had a special grave dug on the battle- field. There the leg was buried and over it was planted a willow tree as a memorial. General Sherman, renowned for his historic march during the American Civil War, lost a horse during the campaign. Af- terwards' he put up a gorgeous monument on the spot where the animal fell. Thirty feet high, it was made of white marble. Fifty workmen were employed for more than. six months in cutting and polish- ing the stone for this impressive monument. Although costly, this monu- ment by no means compares' with thefamous bridge across the Tiber. at Rome, erected to keep green the memory of the famous geese whic:r, it is claim- ed, saved the city by cackling in the night, arousing the garrison when the Gaul invaders ap- proached. NO MORE STICKING When making jams or fruit butters which require long, slow cooking and constant stirring, you. can save yourself much work by preventing them from sticking to the bottom of the kettle- when they begin to thicken, You can do this by rubbing the inside of the kettle with a little olive oil before the fruit and sugar is put into it to cook. This keeps it from sticking. This saves work in washing up the kettles and also gives a better tasting jam. NOBODY LISTENS Pop says the big reason he likes tostay home is that he can say whatever he feels like and nobody pays the slightest attention to what he says. RADIOACTIVE ANSWER BOOTH—Its viewing windows construct - of '/-inch-thick glasslike plastic, this atomicisolation booth permits persons to observe separation of plutonium from Uranium fuel substances of the Hanford Atomic Plant. Shadows fif conventionally garbed workers can .be seen reflected in Window at far tight. Air for observers is pumped in from outside the ,windowless concrete building in which booth is located. BLOOMIN' CHEERFUL—Shirley Bloomer, one of Britain's top tennis stars, is down with a senile during match 'play with California's Da'lene Hard. at Minimi Beach. The blooper failed to upset the Bloomer girl—she won the match, 6-3, 7-5. - TABLE TALKS Quebec . cuisine is something all Canada is proud of. Up 'until quite recently, however, some of the best cooking in the coun- try has been a closed book to the majority of Canadians. This was not because Quebec kept her secrets deliberately but sim- ply because the traditional re- cipes of the province' were not written, but handed down from mother to daughter. An English-speaking Mont- realer for instance would be de- lighted to entertain a Toronto- nian at one of the city's French restaurants. The same Montre- aler would be very unlikely ever to taste a tourtiere, blan- quette de veau, canard roti du Quebec or tarte au strop d'6r- able, in his own house, because his wife would not have the recipes. This situation has been chang- ing during the last few years, however, and one of the chief causes is a charming and ener- getic. nerg tic. French Canadian- woman called Jehane Benoit.' For, ten years; .Mme. Benoit' has been wilting and broadcasting on French Canadian cooking in the leading woman's magazine of the province and Over the. French radio network, * * . * Two years ago she 'enlarged her audience .considerably when she began to appear on the af- ternoon trans -Canada television show, "Open House." With great gusto and charm Mrne. Benoit gives demonstrations of her fa- vorite dishes, and when her recipe allows, usually ends by giving a taste to all the members of the show. Her patter while doing this goes way beyond the ingredients she is handling to notes and anecdotes on the set - tiers of New France who first. used these recipes, writes Anne McDermot in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor. She tells why the pig was •so useful, its meat heavy and sus- taining for men going out to work in zero weather ... how the thrifty housewife used the pork . dripping to make graisse de roti (to be spread on toast or bread). Pork and beans in the prov- ince of Quebec are traditionally less sweet and contain more slices of pork and less molasses than their counterpart across the New England border. Many of the dishes, however, are the same. * * * Canadian cooking, with the accent .on Quebec dishes, will be shown for the •first time in- ternationally at the Brussels Exhibition in 1958. A Belgian restaurateur has contracted to cook and serve the traditional dishes . and . came ,to Montreal recently for .a preview of, the menu. He was deluged • with tastes of corn chowder, home- made bread, soup.(pea and on- ion), fricassees, followed in quick succession by roast pork, pork dripping on bread, potato salad; fruit cake,, apple. pie, m� - lasses tart, ice cream. He . seem- ed pleased if overwhelmed by the showing. # * * Jehane Benoit hopes that Ca- nadians abroad who go to the Fair and taste Quebec dishes for the first time May be inspired to try some of them when they get home! They will be helped by an edition of her cookbook which is coming out next year. in English. Here's a sample: Crepes a 1'Orange Sift 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of. finely ground white sugar, teaspoon salt. Add 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon orange peel (grated), 2 eggs well beaten. - Beat the mixture lightly. Cook as ordinary pancakes and roll afterwards like .small cakes. To serve, put the crepes into the orange sauce and re- heat On a slow fire, turning them gently. Sauce ii 1'Orange Cream 4 tablespoons butter. Add slowly '1 cup icing sugar. Mix well and add 4 tablespoons orange rind (grated) and `3/4 cup orange juice. Bring to boil be- fore pouring over crepes. Tarte au Sirop d'Erable Boil together 1 cup maple syrup, ti cup water. Add 3 ta- blespoons corn starch dissolved in 2 tablespoons cold water. Cook until smooth and clear. Let . cool and cook in. two pie shells in an ' oven at 400° for 25-30 minutes. You can add Ya cup chopped nuts and 1 table- spoon of butter. Fricassee de Chez Nous Melt 1 cup ofdripping, add 2-3 'cups of cooked meat (cut in -squares), and 2 cups of chop- ped Onions. Saute the mixture a few minutes, Add 4 cups of raw potatoes, cut in squares and .,flavored with 1 teaspoon savory, pepper and salt. Cover with water and let cook for 30-40 ,minutes, perferably covered. (Mme ;I3enoit's notes.) This seems `an 'easy dish, but .I con- sider it .,a delicious family dish when 3t is *ell made. Here are 'some points which help to make itsucceed, When 'you can, use chicken 'or turkey fat; leftover gravy is. also very good. , The meat should always be cut in small pieces. It is better if possible to use mealy pota- toes, i.e. winter • potatoes. They make a thicker gravy. You mustn't forget the sarri- ette—(savory) which I call the French Canadian herb., Tourtieres Put into a casserole 1 pound of minced pork, 1 'small onion cut' in •squares, '1 small bud of, ;garlic (ground); ih teaspoon of salt,` 1/2 teaspoon savory, V4 tea- apoon celery salt, / ° teaspoon cloves, '/z cup of water. Bring to boil and cook, uncovered, 20 minutes or long enough to eva- porate the extra water. ' ' Put into two pastry shells. Cook in an oven 500° F. and serve hot. (Traditional Christ- mas Eve. dish.)•. HOW IT 'GOES But, then, if all the laws were enforced, half of us' would be in jail ' and the others out on . bail, Hurricanes Mit A Dishpan Tempests in teapots have been known since Shakespear's day, -and before. Now we have hurri- canes in dishpans. Two University of Chicago re- searchers, Dave Fultz, associate professor of meterorology and Robert Kaylor, research assist- ant, reported to the American Meteorology Society here that they are how stirring up hurri- canes in a 16 -inch dishpan, Their laboratory model represents a big blow 500 miles in diameter," 60,000 feet• thick from top to bottem. The Fultz-Kaylor storm, one - ten -millionth of the real thing, is actually a small whirpool of water produced by what are thought to be real hurricane spawning conditions: warming at the center, cooling at the outside, and slow rotation. The tools they described are simple. A 16 -inch pan holding .21 -inches of water is turned around at one revolution every two minutes. A small electric beater in the center, and a jacket of circulating cold water around the outside of the rim simulate the temperature conditions that are believed to energize Hazels, Dimas, and Irmas. Red dye and flakes of alumin- um powder trace the movement of the water in the pant and a camera overhead, turning with the pan, records the swirls and eddies. When the model storm is ready for operation, the vortex — the "eye" of the hurricane so fa- miliar to residents of . the low latitudes — .b ec o m e s slightly funnel -shaped, . surrounded by a fast swirl of water correspond- ing to high winds. Like air in the hurricane, wa- ter rises up the funnel, spreads. out at the top in a clockwise flow, then sinks down the cold rim and returns to the center as a counter -clockwise flow writes James K. Sparkman in the Christian Science Monitor. Though the dishpan hurricanes have considerable advantages over their more destructive sis- ters, they do have disadvantages as well, the two researchers con- ceded. One unnatural ':feature,'. they . said, is the fact that their tiny storm' is walled in by the rim of the pan ,whereas actual hurricane clouds feather out in - pin -wheel fashion for many miles. More acute is the ';problem of the small vortex, or center fun- nel. So far, it is only as' large .as a pencil, and it is difficult to study with the eye .or cameras Professor Fultz explained. With an eye on full-scale hur- ricanes, another research associ- ate, Akira Kasahara, proposes a change of procedure to permit mathematical forecasting of hul'► ricane paths with greater ac- curacy. Closer forecasts, he argued, -olid be computed if weather data was sampled at two heights rather than at only One level. Ile suggested 700 and 500 mill - bar pressure levels — or 10,000 and 20,000 feet above sea level~ • In 12 cases where Mr. Kass- hara's double - height equation, based on a Japanese -evolved concept of storms, as ;tested (August, 1955), the forecast route of the storm averaged 96 miles off the course in 24 hours, 216 miles off for 48-hour fore- casts. The Japanese storm concept envisions a hurricane as a whirl- pool vortex in a river stream, as one part of a larger air mass which is steering the storm along, rather than as a solid swirling cylinder that moves under . its own steam. Looking beyond the storm to the over-all weather picture, Friedrich Begemann, research associate in the university's En- rico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, told meteorologists that scrap particles from H-bomb ex- plosions may permit a new look into world patterns of water cir- culation. COLD, -NOT HANGOVER -- Everybody will know you have a cold if you don this gadget. Thats justwhat it's for, says inventor Helmi. Harie. Harie says the converted heating pad 'will bake your cold' away. He displayed it at the first Inter.' national -Gadget 'Show. DIFFERENT KIND OF MONEY BELT—Two workmen at Britain's Royal Mint in London examine new gold sovereigns moving past on a • belt that automatically' turns the coins over. Although the sovereign is no longer used for currency, the -mint turns them out occasionally as an• exercise in craftsmanship. The coin was first issued during the reign of Henry VII in the 15th century and derives its name fromthe custom of placing a representation .of the current ruler on its face. n • 4 SPELLING' IT OUT FOR •SAFETY'S. SAKE—This illuminated admonishment to control -occupied pilots is a prominent feature of Moffett Field at Sunnyvale,. CeHf. The billboard is a take -no- chances, last-minute reminder that suppdemen is the many electronic safety controls used aboard the big ships that land at Moffett Field.