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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS & FRIENDS
Blue Heaven Food Reference Newsletter, Vol 1, #11, December 20, 2000
Food Facts, Trivia, History, Recipes, Key West and Blue Heaven News
http://www.blueheavenkw.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
Free Grocery Coupons
Food Trivia Questions
Recipes
Food History
Key West Event News
Blue Heaven Restaurant News
Food Trivia
More
REMEMBER: STRESSED SPELLED BACKWARDS IS DESSERTS
Try our Banana Heaven!
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QUOTE
"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded,
dead."
Woody Allen.
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VALUPAGE GROCERY COUPONS
Go to the link below for FREE Grocery Coupons. Just print the ones you
want, bring them with you when you go shopping - it's that easy over
$40.00 in coupons!
http://www.valupage.com/?From=AFF001824
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FOOD TRIVIA QUESTION: WHAT AM I ???
The Food Trivia Quizzes are now moved to their own separate section after the newsletter is e-mailed. Check the Navigation Bar at the top of the page.
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SPECIAL CHRISTMAS EVENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Weather permitting, people all across North America will be able to
watch the Moon glide across the low December Sun, creating a partial
solar eclipse. This event will be visible throughout nearly all the
inhabited parts of North America (except Alaska and the Yukon), as well
as from most of Mexico and the Caribbean."
http://www.skypub.com/sights/eclipses/solar/001225partial.html
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PHOTOS
Check out the photos from our employee Christmas Party on December 18-
see if you recognize your waiter or waitress!
http://blueheavenkw.homestead.com/photothumbnail6.html
Email or send by regular mail, your photos in some way related to Blue
Heaven Restaurant or food to kwfood@bellsouth.net I will add them to
the Blue Heaven Website.
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TRIVIA
In Bavaria, beer is not an alcoholic drink. It is legally defined as a
staple food.
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UNUSUAL MENUS
Worms, beetles, and bugs are not as American as Mom's apple pie, and
very probably never will be. But there was an occasion in 1992, at the
Explorers Club in New York City, when the New York Entomological Society
celebrated its 100th anniversary with a banquet that began with snacks
of roasted crickets and larvae and went on through mealworm ghanouj,
waxworm fritters with plum sauce, cricket and vegetable tempura, and
roasted Australian kurrajong grubs to roast beef and gravy. The dessert
was chocolate cricket torte, the centerpieces on the tables were live
tarantulas (for decor, not for eating).
Email your recipe requests or food information or history questions to
me at kwfood@bellsouth.net
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QUOTE
"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her
watch." James Beard.
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QUOTE
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to
keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemmingway.
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FOOD FACTS
Find out some very surprising facts about French Fries, artificial and
natural flavors, and why vegetarians are upset. Go to
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/01/schlosser.htm
and read the January 2001 ATLANTIC MONTHLY article, WHY MCDONALD'S FRIES
TASTE SO GOOD: A trip to northern New Jersey, the home of natural
flavors by Eric Schlosser.
It is a long article, but well worth the read.
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BLUE HEAVEN NEWS:
RESERVATIONS FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE
Require a $10 per person deposit. Music and Party favors, etc. Deposit
is non refundable after December 15.
Please call us at (305) 296-8666 for New Year's Reservations.
WE WILL BE OPEN ON MONDAY, NEW YEARS DAY with a Brunch menu from 9AM
until 1PM.
Please note the opening time on this day is one hour later than normal.
(We like to celebrate too!)
STONE CRAB SEASON IS HERE - (Oct 15 to May 15)
Sweet, delicious Stone Crab claws are served every night at Blue Heaven.
Stone crabs (Menippe mercenaria) are found along the Atlantic coast of
the southern U.S. mainly around the Gulf Coast of Florida and the
Florida Keys. They cannot swim, and live mostly on shallow flats in
high salinity areas near oyster reefs. Even though they possess great
strength and can crack the shell of a large oyster, they have a mild
disposition and can be taken by hand.
Only the claw meat is eaten, and only one claw is removed from the crab.
They are then put back into the sea so the claw can regrow. The shell
of the claw is 'stone hard' and must be cracked with a hammer. Stone
crabmeat is firm in texture and has a sweet succulent flavor, similar
to lobster.
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FOOD TRIVIA
When the fruit of the South American Sandbox tree is ripe, it explodes.
The explosion, that is so loud it could be mistaken for gunfire, has
such force that it scatters the seeds as far as 50 feet from the tree's
trunk!
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Advertisement
Jacques Lemaire, who makes and sells Mandala jewelry in our outdoor
garden near the gift shop has returned from Maine, and will be here
again for the winter. Check out his unique handmade items at our
restaurant or on his website at
http://mandalas.homestead.com
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TOTALLY UNRELATED TO FOOD FACT
"The original 'puck' that they use in the game of Ice Hockey was made
from frozen cow dung."
From the Comedy zone
http://www.comedy-zone.net/
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REMINDER
We are closed for breakfast and lunch on Monday and Tuesday until
Christmas. However we are open for dinner on those days.
WE WILL BE OPEN ON MONDAY, NEW YEARS DAY with a Brunch menu from
9AM until 1PM.
Please note the opening time on this day is one hour later than normal.
(We like to celebrate too!)
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FOOD TRIVIA
One Hundred Years Ago (1900), Hershey Chocolate, and Hills Bros. Ground
Vacuum Packed Coffee were first introduced.
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James T. Ehler (webmaster, cook, chef, writer)
Blue Heaven Restaurant; Key West, Florida
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© copyright James T. Ehler, 2000.
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