BEg2 chapter 6 appreciation & a bit more research
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 04:36:13 UTC 2021
Reg and Eric were out in the middle of Brooklyn by this point, the doo-wop
and Bible recitation long out the exits and Eric poised for flight. “You’re
in and out of there all the time, Reg, you ever happen to run into any of
their security people?”
“Rumor I hear is that Gabriel Ice runs the department himself. There’s
supposed to be some history. Somebody had a live terminal in a desk drawer
and forgot to tell him.”
“Forgot.”
Aha! So we resume the account of the conversation on the bus.
Spud - that Slagiatt has an associate named Spud is a bit interesting
Structuring the tranches - tranches connotes piecing or parceling out
investments according to risk, but I also like these usage sentences from
Vocabulary.com:
- Before long, there was a feast spread on the table, including thin
*tranches* of smoked moose, roasted and seared with maple syrup, made
from the sap of a nearby tree.
New York TimesJan 16, 2018
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/dining/canada-indigenous-cooks.html>
- While we might continue to vote for winners, and the idea that these
shows usher in a new *tranche* of talent is persuasive, for every
globe-straddling One Direction, there are a dozen struggling Misha Bs.
The GuardianMar 16, 2013
<http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/16/britain-got-talent-show-fatigue>
- The loss of that top *tranche* of the market prompted an exodus of a
lot of these expensive wines from the United States, at least initially to
China and elsewhere in Asia.
Washington PostApr 19, 2019
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/when-it-comes-to-wine-weird-is-the-new-normal--and-thats-for-the-better/2019/04/19/c2f878a4-611c-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html>
- The original *tranche* included the nine stage musicals plus an
earlier adaptation of “Cinderella.”
New York TimesMay 31, 2021
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Slagiatt sees Ice “couple times in the IGA”
I think this is a grocery chain “independent grocers of America” with
stores all over the place, but specifically in East Hampton and Montauk
http://www.igahamptons.com
Enchiladas at The Blue Parrot
There’s one in Brooklyn but also in East Hampton
https://www.blueparroteasthampton.com/menus/
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ENCHILADAS
3 Rolled Tortillas, In a Ranchero Adobo Sauce, Served with Rice and Beans
Cheese $22
Shredded Chicken $24
24 bucks & you don’t even get guacamole?
Further Lane -
https://nypost.com/2021/09/09/east-hampton-estate-sells-for-52-5m-after-just-one-month/amp/
Further Lane is an ultra-exclusive street where activist hedge fund
investor Barry Rosenstein paid $147 million
<https://nypost.com/2014/05/03/activist-investor-buys-east-hampton-mansion-for-record-147m/>
for
an 18-acre estate in 2014.
Jerry Seinfeld, Lorne Michaels and Carl Icahn also own property there.
South Fork -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fork_(Long_Island)
The *South Fork* of Suffolk County
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York>, New York
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_(state)>, United States
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States> is a peninsula
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsula> in the southeastern section of
the county on the South Shore
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shore_(Long_Island)> of Long Island
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island>. The South Fork includes most
of the Hamptons <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hamptons>. The
shorter, more northerly peninsula is known as the North Fork
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Fork,_Suffolk_County,_New_York>.
Strozzapreti - Strozzapreti are an elongated form of cavatelli, or
hand-rolled pasta typical of the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marche and Umbria
regions of Italy as well as in the state of San Marino. The name is also
used for a baked cheese and vegetable dumpling, prepared in some regions of
Italy and on the French island of Corsica. Wikipedia
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strozzapreti>
Category: Shaped pasta
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Pronunciation: stroh-tzuh-PRAY-tee
Literal meaning: Priest-chokers, Priest-stranglers
Typical pasta cooking time: 10-12 minutes
(They look like light yellow green beans to me, with a little seam open
along one side.)
Got to be a tale hanging thereby:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/the-choking-history-of-italys-prieststrangler-strozzapreti-pasta/news-story/3c3c5d599fee7ac42df25f5d4f63489f?amp
These holy men were seen as the ‘ravenous lords’. Greedy not only of power
and wealth but also of good food and wine. It was no mystery that priests
loved fine and abundant eating. Each evening, villagers dreaded the moment
when prelates travelling to Rome would knock at their door for a lavish
meal and a good night’s sleep.
All locals could do was silently curse them. Poor housewives cooking in
inns and taverns turned to their pots and rolling pins to undo what they
deemed ‘evil’, believing that pasta could trigger a sort of exorcism and
wipe-out the clergy.
While preparing the strangling Strozzapreti, loved and frequently ordered
by the men of God, at each twist of the tiny dough, they would curse the
rich abbots hoping they choke while devouring the dish….
Priests were seen as gluttony devils and so it happened that many,
according to local tales, while voraciously slurping the Strozzapreti ended
up choking and died fork in hand. The pasta would stick to their throat,
their faces turn fire-red, they’d stop breathing and their head would crash
straight into the half-full dish of Strozzapreti, sending droplets of
tomato sauce flying in the air amid the grins of other guests….
The anti-clergy fad got stronger in 1815, when Italians fought to unite
Italy under a single enlightened monarchy, snatching the central regions
from the Vatican’s hold.
The word “Strozzapreti” thus also came to indicate the leather knots used
by bandits and outlaws who laid hands on preachers and strangled them when
anticlericalism was at its peak….
The Strozzapreti recipe has nastier, more specific twists across Italy such
as “Strangled Bishops with lemon” and “Strangled Bishops with cheese and
fennel”. One thing is sure: Strozzapreti were very much loved by holy men
even if more than one died at the dinner table, letting the pasta down the
wrong pipe….
The Church’s vast kingdom has gone yet the longstanding anti-Catholic
culinary recipes survive and have turned into a tourist food magnet.
Strozzapreti fairs are held throughout the year in many hamlets, luring
hundreds of gourmands from across the world.
Nero D’Avola - a Sicilian dark red wine “Nero” meaning “black” grapes
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