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Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking” is a 2017 cookbook penned by this chef and TV host.
Samin Nosrat
A best seller, it has been described as more of a reference book than a collection of recipes. Nosrat explains how to master flavor and texture using salt, fat, acid and heat, four elements that she calls the “cardinal directions” of cooking.
is a US swimmer who has won twelve Olympic medals. She is also the only American swimmer to have competed in five Olympic Games, and is the oldest swimmer to have made it onto the Olympic team, at 41.
Dara Torres
As my this-American wife will tell you, “sauna” is a this word. It is pronounced more correctly as “sow-nah” (“sow”, as in the female pig).
Finnish
Saxophone is classified as this type of instrument
Woodwind
Saxophones are made of brass, but they also have some features in common with woodwind instruments, such as the use of a reed to create sound. Because of that reed, the “sax” is classified not as a brass instrument, but as a woodwind.
Genetic molecule translated into protein :
RNA
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an essential catalyst in the manufacture of proteins in the body. The genetic code in DNA determines the sequence of amino acids that make up each protein. That sequence is read in DNA by messenger RNA, and amino acids are delivered for protein manufacture in the correct sequence by transfer RNA. The amino acids are then formed into proteins by ribosomal RNA. An added complication is that small changes in the sequence of amino acids specified by DNA sometimes takes place in a process known as RNA editing. This RNA editing occurs after the nucleotide sequence has been transcribed from DNA, but before it is translated into protein.
The color of bell peppers changes as they ripen: they start off this color
green, and as they mature turn yellow, orange, and eventually red.
French for milk
Café lightener : LAIT
In French, you might pour “lait” (milk) “dans votre café” (in your coffee).
This is a very fast run downhill in skiing, one with no turns taken to slow the pace of the descent. “
German word for “shot”.
schuss
Schuss” is a German word for “shot”.
The name “” comes from the Italian word “” meaning “trumpet”, with the “-et” suffix indicating “small”.
clarinet
clarino
3 time Olympic hosts
When Paris hosted the Summer Olympics in 2024, it became only the second city to host the Olympics three times (London hosted in 1908, 1948 and 2012).
It is the only chess move involving two pieces at the same time
In the game of chess, the move known as “castling” involves the king moving two squares towards one of the rooks, and then placing that rook in the square over which the king crossed.
The first television remote control was introduced by
Zenith Radio Corporation, in 1950. That remote was hard-wired to the TV, and was marketed as “Lazy Bones”. Personally, my first “remote” was a broomstick that I used by pushing in large mechanical buttons that selected each of the three channels that were available back then on the east coast of Ireland …
Back in the early 1900s, this was someone (usually a male) who admired firefighting. The term “” was a reference to the this-colored uniforms that had been sported by volunteer firefighters in New York City since the 1820s. The use of the word “” spread over time to describe a person who was enthusiastic about any particular subject,
buff
g. film buff, WWII buff.
Score is this number
Score : TWENTY
Our verb “to score” meaning “to tally”, comes from the Old Norse “skor”, which is a “mark, notch”. It is likely that items such as livestock were counted by placing a notch in a stick for each set of twenty, hence our use of the noun “score” to mean “twenty”.
is a generic name describing several plants that have thorns or prickles, including the rose.
Briar” (sometimes “brier”)
Famously, Br’er Rabbit lives in a briar patch.
“Jackie Robinson of ice hockey”.
Willie O’Ree is a retired professional hockey player from Canada who made his debut for the Boston Bruins in 1958. That made him the first Black player in the National Hockey League, and earned him the nickname “Jackie Robinson of ice hockey”.
Hofer
energy, vitality. There’s a kind of cool thing about this word ” spelling, namely that it is the only 7-letter word in English that cannot be played in Scrabble.
“pizzazz”
You can get close by using the Z-tile with the two blank tiles to get to three of the required four Zs, but there’s no way to get to the fourth Z.
PC key for scrolling to the end :
PGDN
PGUP (Page Up) and PGDN (Page Down) are two navigation keys found on a PC keyboard.
AAA in road terms
The American Automobile Association (AAA) dispatches a lot of tow trucks.
Inauguration Day date and amendment
is on January 20th in the year following the November election of a US President. This date is called out in the Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution, which was ratified by the states in 1933.
this style of men’s evening dress” was first worn to a country club event in 1886 in New York and gets its name from location
called a “tuxedo
The use of a dark dinner jacket without tails became fashionable at the club with the members, and the tradition spread from there. The country club was located in Tuxedo Park, New York, giving the style of dress its name.
Game with 108 cards :.
UNO
In my youth I remember being taught a great card game by a German acquaintance of mine, a game called Mau Mau. Years later I discovered that UNO is basically the same game, but played with a purpose-printed deck instead of the regular deck of playing cards that’s used for Mau Mau. I hear that Mau Mau is derived from the game called Crazy Eights
This tree is native to North America and has a fruit that looks similar to a papaya.
papaw (also “pawpaw”)
Papaw probably gets its name from the word papaya, but papaw and papaya are two distinct species.
This is a structure that is used to raise and lower watercraft between stretches of a canal that are at different water levels. They are included in canals so that the waterway can cross land that is not level.
A lock
