Locator: 50780LIFEWRITING.
For the writer in our family.
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The Book Page
I'm reading The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant. The editor uses the phrase "life writing" rather than "autobiography."
Query: do English and literature scholars prefer the term "life writing" to autobiography?
Reply:
Locator: 50779SWEETGREEN.
Some think the CEO is completely out to lunch (pun intended).
From the CEO, with regard to their wraps:
Early in development, we were unable to find a tortilla in the foodservice market that met our standards. So we partnered to create one made with only 4 ingredients: extra virgin olive oil, unbleached and unenriched wheat flour, sea salt and water, with no preservatives.
Guests can taste and feel the difference with social reviews consistently highlighting the quality and flavor of the tortilla.
The energy around the test leading into yesterday's launch has been incredible. Wraps are already appearing in a meaningful share of social content tagging Sweetgreen with positive sentiment of around 85%.
Guests are responding to the value with entry price points starting at $10.45 and ranging up to $14.95.
These were the entry price points: as high as $14.95.
Locator: 50778IRAN.
Late this evening Trump said Iran's reply to the US 14-point proposal to end the war was "totally unacceptable."
From Morningstar about half-an-hour ago, link here:
Forget the "raw" numbers, look at the percents:
Inconsequential.
WTI: trending toward $100 again.
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The Medical Page
The "routines":
The biggie of course is routine colonoscopy after age 76. Family practice physicians call it "aging out for routine colonoscopies."
Locator: 50777MERINGUE.
This entry is for a certain reader, who I am told, reads the blog religiously. I did not know that, or course.
I know she is a recent college graduate but not much more than that. It does not matter. I simply wanted to post something that she might enjoy, now that I know she reads the blog every day.
Somehow "meringue" came up in our discussion earlier today about desserts while celebrating "Mother's Day." Our oldest granddaughter was part of the discussion. We always joke that she knows something about everything.
I knew meringue was egg whites and sugar, but our oldest granddaughter reminded us that meringue generally includes cream of tartar. I didn't know why cream of tartar was used but later I asked:
Query: What is important about an "acidic" agreement when mixing egg white and sugar to prepare meringue?
Reply:
I was well aware of cream of tartar and its use in cooking but never asked why until now.
And, then as she usually does, our granddaughter casually mentioned / asked / suggested that cream of tartar was a by-product of wine-making. I had never heard that, but I was curious and the two of us looked it up, and yes, indeed, she was correct:
So, there you have it: the source of cream of tartar, why it's important, how it works, and perhaps the most common reason cooks use it.
Never in a million years would I have guessed it is related to wine-making but granddaughter did. How she knows all this stuff, I have no idea, but it really does seem that she knows at least something about everything.
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The Book Page
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Edited With An Introduction By Elizabeth D. Samet, c. 2019.
I've read his Memoirs twice, and maybe parts of his Memoirs several times. I doubt I will ever read the complete annotated volume edited by Elizabeth D Samet, and I won't read it from start to finish, but will read the parts I want to read when I want to read them and in the order I want to read them.
Tonight, of course, I'm reading her introduction. Absolutely fascinating.
A list of the authors US Grant and his fellow students read when they were at the US Military Academy (West Point):
The editor's information on Sir Walter Scott and his (Walter Scott's) connection to the US Civil War is an incredible piece of sleuthing and/or observation.
Locator: 50776UEMPLOYMENT.
The WSJ reported on the unemployment numbers released two days ago.
One might also check the analyses by the CNBC folks on Friday after these numbers came out.
To help put this story in perspective: link here.
