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An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
By Milton Mayer
But Then It Was Too Late…
"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn't make people close to their government to be told that this is a people's government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.
"You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was 'expected to' participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one's energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."
"Those," I said, "are the words of my friend the baker. 'One had no time to think. There was so much going on.'"
"Your friend the baker was right," said my colleague. "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your 'little men,' your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' that no 'patriotic German' could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.
"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—'Resist the beginnings' and 'Consider the end.' But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.
"Your 'little men,' your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something—but then it was too late."
"Yes," I said.
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'
"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.
"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.
"What then? You must then shoot yourself. A few did. Or 'adjust' your principles. Many tried, and some, I suppose, succeeded; not I, however. Or learn to live the rest of your life with your shame. This last is the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to heroism: shame. Many Germans became this poor kind of hero, many more, I think, than the world knows or cares to know."
I said nothing. I thought of nothing to say.
"I can tell you," my colleague went on, "of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn't an anti-Nazi. He was just—a judge. In '42 or '43, early '43, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an 'Aryan' woman. This was 'race injury,' something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case at bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a 'nonracial' offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party 'processing' which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the 'nonracial' charge, in the judge's opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom."
"And the judge?"
"Yes, the judge. He could not get the case off his conscience—a case, mind you, in which he had acquitted an innocent man. He thought that he should have convicted him and saved him from the Party, but how could he have convicted an innocent man? The thing preyed on him more and more, and he had to talk about it, first to his family, then to his friends, and then to acquaintances. (That's how I heard about it.) After the '44 Putsch they arrested him. After that, I don't know."
I said nothing.
"Once the war began," my colleague continued, "resistance, protest, criticism, complaint, all carried with them a multiplied likelihood of the greatest punishment. Mere lack of enthusiasm, or failure to show it in public, was 'defeatism.' You assumed that there were lists of those who would be 'dealt with' later, after the victory. Goebbels was very clever here, too. He continually promised a 'victory orgy' to 'take care of' those who thought that their 'treasonable attitude' had escaped notice. And he meant it; that was not just propaganda. And that was enough to put an end to all uncertainty.
"Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its 'necessities' gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that war against Hitler would help the Jews were wrong. And the people in Germany who, once the war had begun, still thought of complaining, protesting, resisting, were betting on Germany's losing the war. It was a long bet. Not many made it."
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This return policy is applicable to all items in our site except those specially marked.Before shipping out, we'll check every detail of the product for you; make sure that the related accessories are included. Our QC team tests products you ordered are functioning correctly before they are packed and sent to you. This is in addition to the normal quality assurance checks that all the goods have passed in the factory line.
General Return Policies
1. We DO NOT Refund unconditionally. You need to provide the pictures to prove the problems as detailed as possible and we have taken photos of dresses before delivery to avoid fraud.
2. Contact our Customer Service to initiate the return process within 3 days upon receiving your item(s).
3. We only accept products in their original condition, and we cannot process any products that are returned without our approval. If you wish to return any or all parts of your order, you will need to contact customer service at Contact Us and obtain a "Product Return" form that must be included with your package. Any returns without our approval can not get any refunds or exchanges.
4. Mis-shipped products: Once we have confirmed your mis-shipped item (item shipped was not item ordered), we will be responsible for item exchange. Please help us send the dress to the correct person and we will pay the shipping fee. We will really much appreciate your help. You may also return the product and get a full refund.
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Please note that we will not accept any returned items by the color difference which is caused by your display monitor or the weather condition.
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Order CancellationsWe understand that ordering a dress for your special occasion is an important undertaking, and our cancellation policy was created with this in mind. However, it is important to note that our dresses are made to order, and once the creation process has begun the materials cannot be reused. The good news is that after placing your order, there is still time to make up your mind. For further details, please refer to our cancellation policy below for details.
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3. Orders canceled 12 hours after payment confirmed will be eligible for a partial refund consisting of the full shipping cost and 50% of the product purchase price.
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5. Once your order has been shipped, it can no longer be canceled.Actions Products Time Frames Amount Refunded Product Price Shipping Cost Cancellation Customized Dresses within 5 hours of order confirmation 90% within 8 hours of order confirmation 70% 100% within 12 hours of order confirmation 50% 100% Standard Dresses within 5 hours of order confirmation 90% within 8 hours of order confirmation 80% 100% within 12 hours of order confirmation 60% 100% Note: After 2 days of payment confirmed, your order can NOT be cancelled any more. We can only refund the full shipping cost!
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How many recipes for banana bread do you think are in existence? I hypothesize that there are no less than 82,926.
Some recipes are generous with the banana mush, some are skimpy. Some use nuts, some use chocolate, some use caramel, some use dried fruit. Some use special flours and some are eggless. And on it goes.
I recently tried two of those 82,926 recipes, one out of curiosity and one out of necessity.
Batch #1 was made from a recipe that had been reviewed by almost 5000 cooks, nearly all of whom gave it a five-star rating. Clearly, I needed to see what all the fuss was about.
Yes, it's a tasty banana bread, but the beauty lies in its simplicity. Ten ingredients (I added cinnamon, walnuts, and raisins) come together in no time flat--the most tedious part is waiting for it to bake.
Batch #2 was made in exactly the same way, but with one glaring difference. Halfway through the process, I discovered that I had no eggs, so I improvised. According to the worldwide spider's nest, there are many, many substitutions for an egg. I picked a flax seed-water combination mostly because I had sincere doubts that it could replicate the function of the egg.
I was right. This batch was much, much, much more flat and dense. Still tasty, of course, but without the desirable fluffy quality of batch #1.
Two down, 82,924 to go.
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Yum75 comments:
- CC11 said...
I myself have tried at least four, and whilst I have a favourite out of those I still want to try more until I find THE ONE
let us know if you find it. - March 22, 2010 at 5:41 AM
- Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella said...
Grace, I'm scared to link you to my banana bread round up lol. There were some amazing variations there! :P
- March 22, 2010 at 7:04 AM
- Barbara said...
I gave up on this quest years ago! You're right, Grace, there are so many variations. I finally discovered the perfect recipe (for us, anyway) in Hawaii and have been making it for 25 years. Simple, dense with bananas and with no additions of nuts, raisins or chocolate, which I think detracts from the bread.
Good luck finding one that suits you. It will be fun looking! - March 22, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- Kathy said...
I'm always on the lookout for a better recipe than the one I've used for over 35 years. I'll have to give the one you linked to, a try.
Otherwise, my search continues ... - March 22, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Lori said...
I actually made this banana bread from this food blogger and I really loved it but it overflowed. It really needed to be in three pans- not just two. I have now lost the recipe and forget which blogger I got it from. One of these days it will turn up. But texturally it was the best banana bread I have ever made.
And I did not now if you read my comment after yours but garam masala has cinnamon in it. I just know that will make your toes twinkle. - March 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Cara said...
I love your little experiment - and the fact that you chose te substition that you feared would't work :)
- March 22, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- M D said...
I would love to try all the possible variations, at least as an experiment. Your Banana Bread looks so moist, crumbly and perfectly done. A bite into this would take me to heaven!
- March 22, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- Jessica@Foodmayhem said...
There is quite a world of banana breads out there and I thought I was going to have to try a zillion of them too. Somewhere around maybe the 5th one, I discovered my favorite way, which is to use white chocolate in it. I'm generally not a fan of white chocolate, but it just adds an incredible creaminess that just plain rocks!
- March 22, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- lisa is cooking said...
Can't wait to hear about the remaining 82,924! I love a banana bread with walnuts, and your batch #1 certainly looks like a winner.
- March 22, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- kat said...
I have a husband here who would be pretty happy if I went on your challenge of cooking all those banana bread recipes
- March 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Lindsey @ pickyeatings said...
I happen to be really weird, and one of the many things I don't eat are bananas. So banana bread falls into that category, even though the issue I really have with bananas is the texture. Like I said, I'm weird.
- March 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- Hungry Dog said...
I've never found quite the right recipe...often they seem too dense or too sweet. Your egg substitution is curious indeed!
- March 22, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- ♥peachkins♥ said...
my mom has 1 recipes she's loyal to and that's the banana bread I grew up with..
- March 22, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Amanda said...
I LOVE banana bread. OR.. as we call it in my house, banana cake. Cause really... its basically a cake no? :)
Your looks delightful!
Amanda - March 22, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Lisa-Marie said...
I love banana bread. My great aunt taught me to make banana chocolate swirl loaf when I was about 8, and I love it to this day!
- March 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- shaz said...
Oh Grace, how funny to read this and find that you didn't have any eggs but you had flax seeds on hand! I don't really even know what a flax seed looks like. Great experiment though, and now I can safely go back to ignoring flax seed:) The first bread looks awesome (hellooo cinnamon!).
- March 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Josie said...
I do love banana bread, and I think I have tried at least a dozen of those 82,000 recipes :) I haven't ever found one that I can't live without, but they are all usually good.
The flax seed sub scares me a little bit, I'm not gonna lie ;) - March 22, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- Julie said...
You're going to be a busy girl! You may want to invest in another oven, and maybe a kitchen assistant :)
- March 22, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
Will you be attempting the 82,000 recipes for banana bread? Even if every food blogger made their own recipe we would never come close...but we could attempt it with an event.
- March 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- kimberleyblue said...
I too keep on trying different banana bread recipes. I do believe I have found my favourite, but I can never be sure, so I keep on searching.
I never heard of there being very many egg substitutions. Interesting! Both your banana breads look super tasty, that's for sure. - March 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- TKW said...
The best banana bread? The one someone else makes for me. :)
- March 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Namitha said...
So true..I have tried at least 4 :D Will tryyour eggless version next time :-)
- March 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Mimi said...
Now I know not to subsitute fax seed for eggs. Enjoy your quest.
Mimi - March 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great experiment! I would love a slice of delicious banana bread right now!
- March 22, 2010 at 1:34 PM
- Laura said...
As a banana hater, I can confirm there are indeed 82,926 versions, most of which look as awesome as this and leave me sighing sadly. :)
- March 22, 2010 at 1:42 PM
- LilSis said...
I REALLY love banana bread, but I'm really not very good at baking. I recently said that I wasn't going to bake for awhile, but I didn't say NEVER. Since this is supposed to be a pretty easy recipe, maybe even I could do it!
I'm bookmarking now... ya never know! - March 22, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- Amy I. said...
Grace, have I told you lately that you crack me up?!
- March 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
You're so brave. I decided the other day I'm tired of a million variations to everything so I'm developing the Blond Duck Classics and sticking to them.
Until I get distracted again, of course... - March 22, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
There are many, that I'm sure! i love moist, nutty and spicy banana breads...
Rosa - March 22, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Bob said...
Well, that's good to know about the flaxseed sub. The first bread does look fantastic! Heh.
- March 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- Lucie said...
Well, the first version sure looks delicious! I really dislike bananas but looove banana bread--I definitely agree that it would take a lifetime to try all the recipes out there!
- March 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Marjie said...
I'm pretty sure I have tried at least 8,293 of those recipes. I keep going back to one made with sour cream and lots of banana. I'm with the Blond Duck - I'm developing a list of classics and sticking with them - and making notes in my cookbooks about them!
- March 22, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Juliana said...
Grace, my husband loves banana bread, but many of the recipes that I followed turn out to be too heavy...therefore I am still in the search :-)
- March 22, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- Faith said...
I'm always looking for a good banana bread recipe since I don't really have a favorite go-to recipe yet...I'll definitely have to check that one out! I've always wondered about the flaxseed/water combo...thanks for sharing that, Grace!
- March 22, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- oneordinaryday said...
Hmm. I'd go for the light and fluffy one for sure, but I bet they both tasted good.
- March 22, 2010 at 6:37 PM
- Teanna said...
I've never heard of the flax egg subsitute combo! So interesting! I'm very exciting to go on this journey of making 80,000+ plus banana bread recipes!
- March 22, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Leslie said...
No egg = flat flat flat :(...still looks yummy!
Have you tried my Banana bread recipe? It made the blog rounds about a year ago and it seemed like a big hit, or maybe people were just being nice!!! lol - March 22, 2010 at 7:50 PM
- La Bella Cooks said...
It seems like everyone I talk with has some sort of family recipe for banana bread so I am guessing the numbers are a bit higher! Interesting fix with the no-egg dilemma but i'm glad it worked out perfect for you. Looking forward to more banana bread recipes from your kitchen, Grace!
- March 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM
- eep said...
I'm still looking for the perfect banana bread recipe. I'll have to try the Banana Banana Bread (recipe 1).
- March 22, 2010 at 10:11 PM
- Velva said...
Let me know when you find the perfect banana bread. I have tried so many but, yet to find that one that rocks my world :-) If you find it, can you send it my way?
- March 22, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- Pam said...
I love any kind of banana bread as long as it has lots of cinnamon!
- March 22, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- Sook said...
That looks fluffy and tasty! :)
- March 23, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- Penny said...
Molly Wizenberg (Orangette) has a good recipe for banana bread if you are on a quest. Your first one sounds very doable.
- March 23, 2010 at 8:25 AM
- marla {family fresh cooking} said...
Both banana breads look great to me!! Never met one I didn't like. Worthy of the thousands of recipes!
- March 23, 2010 at 9:08 AM
- Albany Jane said...
People puttin' chocolate in banana bread - This is what scared me off of the stuff for so long. Eeeuuuggghh!
I've been thinking of playing with flax seed - guess I'll have to up the baking soda or something to increase the fluffiness. - March 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM
- jillian said...
I like banana bread in all its various forms. This first batch sounds especially great. You gotta have cinnamon :)
- March 23, 2010 at 10:30 AM
- Dewi said...
Fluffy bread is always tempting!
elra - March 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Jennifer said...
My favorite banana bread recipe is the light version in the ATK, Family Baking Book. I don't usually like lightened recipes (were talking baked goods after all, they should be rich) but I find banana bread very forgiving of healthy-ing up.
- March 23, 2010 at 12:48 PM
- Krissy @ The Food Addicts said...
i am TOTALLY making this when my bananas are ready to harvest in the garden. that is one FLUFFY cake. EEK!
- March 23, 2010 at 3:20 PM
- Ms. Meanie said...
Oh, I've made the allrecipes recipe and you are right--it is amazing. Love it. I have heard of that flax+water substitution -- too bad it's not a good substitution for bread, but thanks for reporting! I tried it once for pancakes and the results were not good either.
- March 23, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Joanne said...
The best thing about banana bread? Even flat banana bread tastes amazing. Both of these look delicious, but you know that I'd prefer the fluffy version. Banana bread is one of my favorites!
- March 23, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- Sophie said...
Baking without eggs is super tough! Usually stuff comes out dry but this bread looks moist, and of course your added ingredients make it extra tempting :).
- March 23, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Carolyn Jung said...
You're right -- I have quite a few banana bread recipes in my files. That, and banana muffin recipes. Good thing I always have a stash of bananas in my freezer for when the baking mood strikes.
- March 23, 2010 at 6:03 PM
- sweetlife said...
great tasty experiment..really can't go wrong with banana bread..yummy!!
sweetlife - March 23, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- Kathy Walker said...
Banana Bread! Yum. There certainly are quite a few recipes..everybody has their special twist. Kindof like apple cake! We should all make and post banana bread on the same day! Just kidding....you are right, there are tons or recipes.
- March 23, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Rebeca said...
I'm not a huge fan of flas "eggs."
Flax eggs really only work in things that are inherently dense- like bran muffins, or things that can withstand the alteration like a ww burger buns or something.
It is nice in a pinch though :) - March 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- cookies and cups said...
i've tried the flax seed substitution too, but only in a cookie, so I didn't notice too much of a difference. I can see how it wouldn't work as well in a bread.
Love banana bread though and yours looks great! - March 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM
- Deborah said...
I believe that there is no such thing as too much banana bread!
- March 23, 2010 at 10:53 PM
- Kathleen said...
Lol! I am still trying new banana bread recipes too!
- March 24, 2010 at 12:01 AM
- DutchBakerGirl said...
Your bread looks wonderful! I finally found a recipe I liked, but it's a banana pound cake rather than a banana bread. Hooray for getting yours to be fluffy and moist!
- March 24, 2010 at 1:22 AM
- Trissa said...
I can't wait to see the 82000 plus combinations you come out with! heee hee... but seriously - the first one looks delicious enough. I'd stop at that one.
- March 24, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Sandy said...
I can eat any kind of banana bread! :)
I have a yummy EASY STIR recipe that will be in my book that Abby always makes.
But this close up pix is making me .... drool.
Hope you're doing well, Grace! - March 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- Von said...
I didn't know you could substitute for eggs...tehehe. I probably would have just given up if I ran out of eggs =]
I love bannana bread! (but then again who doesn't?) I love how the recipe's not too hard too =D - March 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- Jaime said...
yeah i don't know how many variations there are out there! i found out and just stuck w/it :)
i don't know if you follow peabody's blog, but this recipe was just calling your name :)
http://www.culinaryconcoctionsbypeabody.com/2010/03/22/to-thine-own-self-be-true/ - March 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- LyB said...
Nothing like a good ol' banana bread! There's only one banana bread recipe for me though; it's the one my dad used to make and I'm sticking to it! I'll be sure to check out your review of the 1000s of other recipes out there though, for scientific purposes, of course. ;)
- March 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Delicious Dishings said...
I just read on my bag of flaxseed that it can be used as an egg substitute. I was very skeptical. I'm glad you tried it out! Now I know it's probably best to just stick with eggs. I'm a lover of banana bread with chocolate. Ooh and it has to be very dense and moist too.
- March 24, 2010 at 2:27 PM
- Ingrid_3Bs said...
Sooooooooooooo, is the recipe as great as everyone proclaimed?
~ingrid - March 24, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
This bread does look fluffy and delicious, and I approve of the addition of nuts and cinnamon. I think I've tried 5 or 6 recipes myself and I must say I've liked them all. What's not to love about banana bread? Thanks for 1 more recipe to try Grace!
- March 24, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
ah yes, the simpler things are, the harder it is to find the perfect recipe.
just like the good old chocolate chip cookie!
heh. fluffy indeed. love that first picture! - March 25, 2010 at 12:30 AM
- DessertObsessed said...
hahahaha you're so funny! i'm thinking that there are many many more banana recipes out there... i alone can think of 7 different recipes i've tried off the top of my head!
- March 25, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- tiffany @ the garden apartment said...
I'm a big fan of banana bread, but I often find that it's not banana-y enough for me. The more banana the better, and your addition of walnuts is a good one. I'd like to try a banana bread recipe that used butter and buttermilk in addition to the egg- I think that would make a really moist texture and good flavor base for the bread. . . .
There really are not any good substitutes for an egg, but I commend you for trying. - March 27, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Eve said...
I bake something at least twice a week. Cakes mostly and I have a friend who gave me the recipe for her banana cake over 3 months ago. She makes the best banana cake. I've attempted this cake 6 times. Yes, 6. And each once has failed.failed.FAILED.
I love banana bread or cake but the idea of making it ever again makes me want to curl into a ball and cry. - March 30, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
Worldwide spiders nest... LOL
Love it.
I went on a quest for banana bread... and promptly burned myself out. But this post reignites a bit of my banana bread spark. ;) - April 1, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
This is also my "go to" banana bread recipe. Others have a bit more, well, specialness, but this is trusty. Also, some end up using half the mixing bowls in my kitchen, and in my mind, a nice basic banana bread shouldn't be a production. This recipe is a keeper.
- April 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Unknown said...
eggless....how sad :( and how brave of you to try! but the recipe and the first bread look wonderful. I've even made a chocolate banana bread with strawberries....mmmm banana split.
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The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is only two days old, and already both sides claim it's been violated. At issue are the circumstances surrounding the killing today of a Palestinian by the Israeli military. NPR's Philip Reeves reports from Gaza City.
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: It's early afternoon. Rain sweeps in from the sea. The potholed lanes of Gaza turn into rivers. In a mosque near the beach, Friday prayers are under way. Ismail Haniya is here. He's the political leader of Hamas in Gaza. When the cease-fire was announced Wednesday night, Gazans took to the streets to celebrate.
REEVES: Prayers end, and the imam cranks up the triumphalist mood again.
REEVES: Men line up to shake Haniya by the hand. He nods and smiles. Palestinian officials say more than 160 people were killed during Israel's eight-day military offensive. Hamas lost men, building, infrastructure and, say the Israelis, significant numbers of weapons. Its military commander in Gaza was assassinated, yet Hamas is striving to present itself as the victor.
REEVES: Not far away, though, the mood is very different. I'm in a crowd of young men, hundreds of them, marching through the streets. And a few feet from me, they are carrying a body, that of a young man. It's swaddled in a green flag, a Hamas flag. It's on a stretcher. They are flourishing the flags of the Palestinian factions. They're carrying this young man to the mosque for his burial.
REEVES: The dead man is Anwar Qudiah. He was 20. Qudiah was in the southern end of the Gaza Strip when he was shot by Israel's armed forces. Israeli army says a crowd of Palestinians approached the fence sealing Gaza from Israel. Some tried to break through the fence, it says. Israeli soldiers unleashed warning shots. When these were ignored, they shot at the crowd's legs.
YOUSEF: (Foreign language spoken)
REEVES: That's not how Qudiah's family tells the story. They say he and his relatives went to the area to check out their farmland. The land has lain fallow for years as it's within an Israeli-imposed no-go zone by the fence.
YOUSEF: (Foreign language spoken)
REEVES: The crowd thought the cease-fire agreement allowed them to reclaim their land and grow crops close to the fence, explains Qudiah's cousin Yousef. The bullet that killed Qudiah hit him in the face, says another cousin, Ehad, who says he was there when it happened.
EHAD: (Through Translator) We were very happy about the cease-fire. That's why we went to see our lands today. But when we went there, Israelis shot him in cold blood.
REEVES: Qudiah's death will not end the cease-fire, but this is a fragile truce in a landscape flooded with distrust. Now, that distrust is deeper still. Philip Reeves, NPR News, Gaza.
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- a mid-term monitoring meeting by the Project Steering Committee took place in Brussels in June 2017. Among the participants, there were CoE and EC representatives, a delegation of 3 representatives from each of the 5 pilot countries. This mid-term steering committee meeting provided the chance to discuss problems encountered and asses the possibilities of the project. It was also a platform for experience sharing among partners from the five implementing countries;
- a training of trainers for legal professionals (lawyers, judges and prosecutors) took place in Italy in December 2017;
- 3 training of trainers for police officers on non-discrimination, gender and Roma were organised in Greece in July 2017; another one in Bulgaria in November 2017, and last one in Romania in December 2017. The ToTs were an additional contribution to the programme by the CoE and therefore activities fully funded by the CoE own budget and other voluntary contributions;
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The traditionally collegial U.S. Senate was never a natural fit for Frank Lautenberg, the wealthy New Jersey businessman whose headstrong, CEO style could rankle.
But the five-term senator, who died early Monday at age 89, managed to serve as a passionate and able advocate for a tight collection of causes, from gun control and public health to Israel and mass transit.
Lautenberg was the force behind banning smoking on commercial airline flights and raising the national drinking age, and he was instrumental in early and ongoing gun control efforts, including efforts to restrict purchases of assault weapons.
He had announced in February that he would not seek re-election in 2014.
President Obama, in a midday statement, lauded the late senator and founder of the payroll services behemoth ADP as a public servant who "improved the lives of countless Americans with his commitment to our nation's health and safety, from improving our public transportation to protecting citizens from gun violence to ensuring that members of our military and their families get the care they deserve."
Lautenberg's death, due to complications from viral pneumonia, leaves a Senate vacancy that's now in the hands of New Jersey's popular Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
Christie, expected to win re-election easily in November, appears to have a variety of options, from calling a special Senate election this year to appointing a successor for the remaining 1 1/2 years of Lautenberg's term.
A wild card? Christie could appoint himself, but that scenario appears far-fetched to politicos in New Jersey and beyond.
"He would do violence to his brand," says Michael Murphy, a one-time New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former county prosecutor.
Says Senate expert Ross Baker, a professor at New Jersey's Rutgers University: "That's not for him."
While eulogies for Lautenberg were still being written, a short list of potential Republican appointees began to take shape.
Those mentioned include state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, who last year lost a U.S. Senate bid to incumbent Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez; state Sen. Tom Kean Jr., son of former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean; state Assembly Leader Jon Bramnick; and three-term U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance.
New Jersey hasn't had a Republican senator since Nicholas Brady was appointed to serve out disgraced Democratic Sen. Harrison Williams' term in 1982.
The last elected New Jersey Republican senator was Clifford Case, who left office in 1979.
Whatever the succession scenario Christie settles on, the chosen one will likely face Newark Mayor Cory Booker, expected to be the Democratic nominee for Senate.
In his statement, Obama paid tribute to Lautenberg, from his humble beginnings as a son of working-class immigrants and service in the Army, to his founding of ADP and long service in the Senate.
Baker, the Rutgers expert, characterized Lautenberg, who served on the powerful Appropriations Committee, as "more an executive than an actual senator, a self-made man who came to the Senate with a perspective that didn't particularly fit well."
"But he was a dependable, liberal Democrat who pursued with considerable success the issues he cared deeply about: gun control, public transportation, public health and a restrained foreign policy," Baker says.
His net worth is estimated at between $57 million and $117 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Between 2007 and 2012, Lautenberg donated $654,600 to his own campaigns.
Lautenberg's Senate service had a brief interruption. He retired in 2000, in part, Baker says, because he thought he'd face a very tough GOP opponent — either then-Gov. Christine Todd Whitman or former Gov. Kean. But he got back in the mix in 2002, when his longtime nemesis, Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli, abruptly ended his re-election effort amid a campaign contribution scandal.
Lautenberg replaced Torricelli as the Democratic candidate just six weeks before the election, and won a return to the Senate.
"Frank was a middle-bencher in the Senate," says Murphy, the New Jersey Democrat and lobbyist. "But he was passionate about public policy issues that he really engaged in."
In the mid-1990s, when Murphy was a county prosecutor, he and Lautenberg became close when the senator personally intervened with King Hussein of Jordan to ensure the return of two American children, kidnapped by their Jordanian father, to New Jersey.
"It was illustrative of Frank's passion," Murphy said. "He cared about the little people."
Lautenberg had battled cancer, and he also recently waged a public battle with Booker, the rising star who appeared a bit too anxious to nudge out the old Senate veteran.
In January, Lautenberg suggested that Booker might need a "spanking" for being "disrespectful" for moving toward a run while an incumbent still held the seat.
"I have four children. I love each one of them," he said at the time. "I can't tell you that one of them wasn't occasionally disrespectful, so I gave them a spanking and everything was OK." A month later, Lautenberg announced he would not seek re-election.
Here's what he told the Newark Star-Ledger:
"I am not announcing the end of anything. I am announcing the beginning of a two-year mission to pass new gun safety laws, protect children from toxic chemicals and create more opportunities for working families in New Jersey. While I may not be seeking re-election, there is plenty of work to do before the end of this term and I'm going to keep fighting as hard as ever for the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate."
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For TIME's May 21 cover story (available to subscribers here), I explored the personal history and legacy of Dr. Bill Sears, the father of a child-rearing philosophy called attachment parenting. As the author of 40-plus books on parenting and pregnancy, Sears is a familiar figure to many American mothers and fathers. Some parents subscribe to his theory that attachment parenting — characterized by extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and wearing your baby in a sling across your body — is the best way to raise confident, secure children. Others think Sears is an antifeminist tyrant, or that his ideas are just totally unrealistic.
Sears' most well-known parenting manual, a purple 767-page tome called The Baby Book, is ubiquitous, but his own story is not. In reporting this article for TIME, I was intrigued to find out how little had been written about Sears' upbringing or how he came up with his parenting theories in the first place.
It turns out that he and his wife Martha had written a lot of earlier books about attachment parenting before The Baby Book, including one with an evangelical approach. I also came across a book the Searses wrote in 1982 based on another book called The Continuum Concept, which I traced back to a college dropout who had become fascinated by child care in the Venezuelan jungle. "We read the book and thought, Well, this is neat," says Sears.
When I interviewed Bill and Martha Sears at their home in Southern California, we talked for a long time about their childhoods — neither of which resembled the kind of idealized environment the couple imagines for their supporters. Bill's father abandoned him when he was a baby; Martha's father died when she was young, and her mother suffered from mental illness. Their childhoods seemed to be lacking in affection and parental bonding, the very tenets of their teachings.
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I began to realize that Bill Sears' theories are based not only on his experience as a pediatrician and father, as most of his readers assume, but also on the work of others and on the Searses' own upbringings as Midwestern Catholics. Martha acknowledged this in our interview: "You could say I'm reacting to my background."
As I spoke with parents, especially mothers, about their parenting styles, I found that even those who didn't know Bill Sears by name had been touched by the phenomenon of attachment parenting — whether as practitioners of some of its tenets or as critics. TIME's May 21 cover story introduces readers to Sears, the man whose influence has shifted mainstream American parenting and brought us to a point where mothering requires more physical and emotional investment than perhaps ever before.


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How many teens are sending sexual photos or texts by phone? And what else are they doing?
Researchers surveyed nearly 2,000 high schoolers in Los Angeles to find out. Among kids who had cellphones or access to them (and that cover almost all of them), about 15 percent reported "sexting."
Sexting, as the researchers defined it, was sending sexually explicit images or message. Sexting has gone so mainstream the researcher didn't even put it in quotes when writing up their findings in medical journal Pediatrics.
Among kids who had cellphones or access to them (and that cover almost all of them), about 15 percent reported sexting. More than half of the students reported knowing someone who sexted.
Knowing a sexter made it more likely that the particular student surveyed was also a sexter.
Nearly three-quarters of the students surveyed identified themselves as Latino/Hispanic, 12 percent were African-American and 9 percent were white.
The researchers also asked questions about sexual orientation, activity and history. When they analyzed the responses, they found "a clustering of sexual risk behaviors, which includes sexting." Sexting appeared to go together with more sexual activity.
Even so, a majority of the students with access to cellphones — 59 percent — had never had anal, oral or vaginal sex.
The findings seem consistent with common sense. The researchers point out, however, that they can't say there's a cause-and-effect relationship between sexting and actual sexual activity — just an association.
A previous study found the rate of sexting was much lower — only about 1 percent. But that study focused on images, and the 1 percent figure applied to sexually explicit images.
The researchers in the latest study concluded that pediatricians should ask teens and tweens about sexting as part of a conversation about sexual behavior and risk. The American Academy of Pediatrics has tips for families when it comes to talking about social media and sexting, too.
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