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June 30, 2007
martha stewart's living's nancy spungen's sister's white bean and tomato toasts' recipe here
From: taqnsid & nancy live on air w/stiv bators & cynthia of the b-girls
From: taqnpart 2
Susan Spungen
Susan Spungen was the founding food editor and editorial director for food at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia from its launch in 1991 until 2003. She wrote a bimonthly column called "Easy Entertaining" for the magazine until June 2004, and helped launch MSO's first all-food title, Everyday Food. She is coauthor of the best-selling Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook. She lives in New York City.
White Bean and Tomato Toasts
Add some flavor to your summer nights with these Latin-inspired dishes from
Susan Spungen
Check out the recipes
Serves 8INGREDIENTS• 1 crusty baguette (18-to-20-inch)• 1 tomato, cut in half crosswise• 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling• 2 garlic cloves, 1 chopped and 1 whole• 1 can (15.5 oz) white beans, drained and rinsed• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt• Freshly ground pepper• 1 Tbsp white or red wine vinegar
DIRECTIONSPreheat oven to 375º and position a rack in middle of oven. Cut baguette into 1/4-inch slices. Spread on baking sheet and bake until edges are golden, 7 to 10 minutes. Transfer to plate and set aside. Chop one tomato half into small pieces. Set aside.
Heat oil in medium saucepan over medium heat. Add chopped garlic and sauté until toasted, about 3 minutes. Add beans, 1/2 cup water, and salt and pepper. Simmer until most of liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes. Add vinegar and mash with fork until roughly pureed. The puree can be made one or two days ahead of time and refrigerated. Bring to room temperature before using.
Rub each slice of bread lightly with the whole garlic clove, then with the remaining half tomato. Spoon about 1 Tbsp of bean puree onto each slice and top with chopped tomato. Drizzle with olive oil and serve.
June 29, 2007
del wood: gliss-bliss
Del Wood
for mr. dante fontana and baikanange
| Del Wood | |
| Born: February 22, 1920 | |
| Died: October 3, 1989 | |
| WSM Grand Ole Opry |
In the cold, diffuse light of a mid-afternoon Sunday in Nashville, Tootsies Orchid Lounge sits at the feet of the Grand Old Opry--dull, drab and gray as slate.
Inside the darkness of the cavernous room with its scuffed maple flooring and echoes of laughter, hovers the must of 1951. Dozens glide in circles to the tintinnabulation of her piano's gliss-bliss, unaware of the decay. A palpable sense of history hovers close like saturnine rings of smoke in the surrounding orb of dankness.
Around and around, her fingers continue to dance on the keyboard. She's laughing easily, and furtively eyeing the girls in Poodle skirts. They glance at brilliantined boys with a blush...all seems to work.
Del Wood is recognized as being the most successful female, country,
solo instrumentalist.Her parents gave her a piano for her fifth birthday with the hope that she would become a classical pianist. Her dream-goal was the Grand Ole Opry, something she would eventually realize in her early 30s. She developed a thumping ragtime style that, in 1951, saw her record her version of the old minstrel show tune, Down Yonder...
Down Yonder soon became a national hit in both the Country and Pop categories in Billboard, and is considered to be the first million-selling record by a female artist...
her version on the Tennessee label reached # 5 in the US country charts and # 4 on the pop charts and sold an estimated three million copies. She was the first female instrumentalist to chalk up a million seller.
Shortening her married name (Adelaide-Hazelwood) to something easier to remember (and intentionally non-gender specific), Del started banging around in bars and honky-tonk joints in her 20s. After guesting on the Opry in 1952 and refusing the chance of playing with Bob Crosby, she joined the roster in November 1953. Her playing proved so popular that she toured with Opry shows, even to Japan. She recorded more than sixty singles and twenty-five albums, mostly for major labels: RCA, Decca, Mercury and Columbia--earning her the sobriquet Queen of Ragtime Piano.
In 1973 Jerry Lee Lewis made his first and only appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. He interrupted his performance and called Del Wood, whom he
cited as a primary influence. Together they performed Wood's hit DownYonder
which he had listened to in Ferriday by Del's earlier group, Hugh 'Baby' Jarrett and his Dixieliners on the Tennessee Records label in 1951.
She made a cameo appearance in Dolly Parton's 1984 film Rhinestone.
Wood remained a member of the Opry until the end of her life.
Del Wood died in 1989 and was interred in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
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