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Before and After: Revived Georgian-Style Home
When a home she had long admired went on the market, Designer Suzanne Kipp lost no time in making it hers
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Georgian Style Home
Suzanne and Dan Kipp had no plans to move. There was no real reason to. The couple was perfectly content in their Winnetka, Illinois, home. It had provided many memories for the two of them and their three children since they moved to the village just north of Chicago in 1995.
The Kipps weren't looking at real estate listings or touring open houses. But as they walked their dog and drove through one particular neighborhood, a classic example of Georgian architecture situated on an arresting corner lot always cast a spell on them.
Photography: Werner Straube
Produced by Mara Boo with Hilary Rose
Architects: Elissa Morgante and Fred Wilson Morgante-Wilson Architects, 2834 Central St., Evanston, IL 60201; 847/332-1001, morgantewilson.com.
Interior design: Suzanne Kipp, Suzanne Kipp Interiors, 800 Humboldt Ave., Winnetka, IL 60093; 847/254-2048, suzannekipp.com.
Builder: Rob Wickenkamp, Elmshire Builders, 3510 Chapel Hill Road, Johnsburg, IL 60051; 847/748-2048, elmshire.com.
Entry Before
"Design is my passion," explains Suzanne. "It's what I studied in school and what I have practiced throughout my career for the past 27 years. This house spoke to me every time I passed it. It was inviting me to come in and take a look. When I saw that it was for sale and that an open house was scheduled, I knew that Dan and I were destined to visit it."
Before: The generously sized foyer had good bones, but needed help.
Entry After
To someone without a design sixth sense, the house and its dated aesthetics (think millwork painted bright turquoise!) would have offered only a pleasant way to while away a Sunday afternoon. Built in 1910, it had been home to four owners, all with their own visions and revisions. But Suzanne, who had ventured through the renovation process many times professionally, recognized the beauty that lay within. She and Dan agreed to devote their time and energy to returning the house to its glory.
After: To add substance to the generously sized foyer, Suzanne Kipp added a round center table and a secretary.
Chandelier ("Jasmine"): Schonbek Worldwide Lighting, schonbek.com.
Table: owner's collection.
Secretary: Anna's Mostly Mahogany, annasmostlymahogany.com.
Rug (Pakistani Peshawar): Rouzati Oriental Rugs, rouzatirugs.com.
Wall paint ("White Down" #970); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com.
Mosaic floor tile by door (mosaic tile "1910", custom): Maestro Mosaics by Granite & Marble Resources, maestromosaics.com.
Installation: Mad Mosaics Tile Co., mad-mosaics.com.
Living Room Before
The spacious living room begged for multiple conversation areas instead of one central arrangement. To tie the groupings together, Suzanne selected furniture that offers easy segues.
Before: Despite plenty of room to work with, the living room space was poorly utilized.
Living Room After
In front of the fireplace—painted black to draw attention—a settee faces a versatile backless bench, allowing an unobstructed view to the grand piano and a banquette-style sofa. At the opposite end of the room, a pair of slipper chairs repeats the symmetry of the two front windows dressed with champagne-colored silk drapery panels. An antique console table rests between the windows.
After: Seating arrangments flow throughout the living room. Above an armless sofa from Hickory Chair, the Richmond Afternoon oil by artist David Gordon adds a landscape of cypress trees. Suzanne found the pair of metal coffee tables at One Kings Lane.
Wall paint ("Dove Wing" #960); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com.
Painting behind sofa (Richmond Afternoon, by David E. Gordon): Gordon Fine Arts, gordonfinearts.org.
Sofa ("Leigh Made To Measure Sofa" #1504-51, by Suzanne Kasler); sofa fabric (#2377-16); sofa trim (#GK 29): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Sofa pillows: discontinued.
Chest to left of sofa: antique: Lamps on chest (discontinued): Crate & Barrel, crateandbarrel.com.
Coffee tables: One Kings Lane, onekingslane.com.
Floor lamp to right of sofa (discontinued: for similar, "French Column Glass Floor Lamp"): RH, rh.com.
Backless bench ("Woodward Bench"/Silver Leaf #1511-30, by Suzanne Kasler): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Bench fabric ("Soiree"/Bailey's Cream #3901/05, by Great Plains): Holly Hunt, hollyhunt.com.
Rug ("Astute"/Institution Gray #4009): Design Materials Inc., dmikc.com.
Dining Room Before
The square proportions of the dining room suited the Kipps' existing antique round table, but Suzanne also wanted to soften the room's stately architecture, which includes a pair of French doors leading to the sun porch.
Before: Patterned wallpaper and door panel curtains on the French doors weighed down the room.
Dining Room After
Suzanne removed the patterned wallpaper, pulled pale blue from the rug and applied it to the ceiling, added extra seating with a settee covered in linen, and reupholstered the dining chairs in a steel-blue velvet. A final fillip is a traditional crystal chandelier descending from the ceiling in front of a gold-framed mirror.
After: Soft sunlight filters in through the French doors. A graceful crystal chandelier adds dazzle to an Edward Ferrell+Lewis Mittman settee and an antique dining ensemble. Dining chairs have been reupholstered in fabric from Manuel Canovas.
Table; host chair; side chairs: antique.
Chair-seat fabric: Pindler & Pindler, pindler.com.
Chair-back fabric on side chair (discontinued): Lee Allison Co., leeallison.com.
Chandelier (#162/CI-2T 113/6, discontinued): New Metal Crafts, newmetalcrafts.com.
Mirror (antique): Anna's Mostly Mahogany, annasmostlymahogany.com.
Settee ("Clermont Loveseat" #SF9933): Edward Ferrell+Lewis Mittman, ef-lm.com.
Settee fabric ("Maroquin"/Ecru #4300-97, by Manuel Canovas): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Wall paint ("Soft Chamois" #969); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com.
Ceiling paint ("Skylight" #205): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Rug (Aubusson): Minasian Rug Co., minasian.com.
Kitchen Before
The Kipps' new purchase had its limitations. Zoning laws prevented adding square footage to the brick house. But given its spacious rooms, which merely needed a visual facelift, the couple was glad to keep structural alterations to a minimum and to retain the home's architectural integrity. They called on Elissa Morgante and Fred Wilson of Morgante-Wilson Architects, with whom they had worked on a previous home. The pair drew plans to bump out the kitchen slightly, which created space for a mudroom, half bathroom, and den. Transformed from a 1970s update that included columns and laminate cabinets, the kitchen now reflects the family's contemporary lifestyle and is the heart of the home.
Before: The kitchen was stuck in the '70s.
Kitchen After
"The layout and the original moldings of the house were perfect," Wilson says. "You wouldn't have wanted to change them. Within the kitchen, we enhanced efficiency by creating a butler's pantry and the other utilitarian spaces."
Enhanced by a pair of elegant crystal chandeliers, the all-white kitchen exudes glamour. The color scheme is evidence of Suzanne's commitment to making a neutral palette flow throughout the home's formal and grand public spaces.
After: Updated architecture, a large working island, and bookcases installed in the breakfast nook were all parts of the renovation.
Wall paint ("Dune White" #968); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com.
Cabinetry (custom): Lambright Woodworking, 260/593-2997.
Cabinet hardware: Clark & Barlow, clarkandbarlow.com.
Perimeter countertop: honed Carrara marble.
Island countertop: honed Black Absolute granite.
Perimeter sink: Rohl, rohlhome.com.
Island sink (by Blanco): Chicago Brass, chicagobrass.com.
Light fixtures over island ("6-Arm Clear Chandelier" #CZ-1006): Crowder Designs, crowderdesigns.com.
Bar stools ("Aaron"): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Microwave: Dacor, dacor.com.
Warming drawer: Thermador, thermador.com.
Study Before
While the palette of the Kipp home consistently follows a neutral path, it's not all in pale colors. Dan's office and library, formerly the sunroom, was stripped down to the studs and rebuilt with new windows, doors, and millwork.
Before: The sunroom offered little interest.
Study After
With so much natural light flooding the room, Suzanne was confident that it could handle a dark hue. So she painted the room's perimeters a handsome, masculine black that is balanced by ivory-colored wall-to-wall carpet. The room is appointed with dark furniture, too. An oval mahogany desk sets the tone for brown leather club chairs. Punctuating the space is a large-scale ottoman covered with houndstooth hair-on-hide in chocolate brown and white.
After: Two substantial pieces of furniture—a desk featuring a feathery grain from Jonathan Charles Fine Furniture and a Hancock & Moore ottoman covered in a houndstooth hair-on-hide—command attention in the room painted in a shade of black from Farrow & Ball. With leather armchairs from Pottery Barn and a three-tier occasional table from Baker, the study is simply handsome.
Paint ("Off Black" #57): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Rug ("Sarahe"/Cream): Stark Carpet, starkcarpet.com.
Leather chairs (Manhattan Collection): Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Side table next to leather chair: Baker, bakerfurniture.com.
Desk ("Mahogany Kidney Pedestal Desk" #493063): Jonathan Charles Fine Furniture, jonathancharlesfurniture.com.
Ottoman (custom, "Abbey Ottoman" #037); ottoman fabric ("Houndstooth Chocolate Leather"): Hancock & Moore, hancockandmoore.com.
Window fabric ("Oscura" #F5830-09): Osborne & Little, osborneandlittle.com.
Trim: Highland Court by Duralee, duralee.com.
Sun Porch
"When I was young and had my first house, I wanted to do everything," explains Suzanne. "I didn't think about the flow of the house, so there wasn't one set scheme. I did navy in the dining room, and green and red in other places.
"The house we were coming from was also filled with color. My kitchen was French country in style with painted floors and pine cabinetry. I was ready for change, and since we were making this unexpected move, I thought we should start with a clean slate."
A retreat used primarily by Suzanne and Dan, the porch is reached through French doors in the dining room, making it an ideal spot for pre-dinner drinks with friends.
Dining table: Gloster, gloster.com.
Dining chairs: Pier 1 Imports, pier1.com.
Rug (discontinued): for similar, Frontgate, frontgate.com.
Wall-mounted lantern (discontinued); sofa end table: Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Ceiling fan ("Bayview" #54098): Hunter Fan, hunterfan.com.
Sofa and chairs ("Chandler Bay"): Lane Venture, laneventure.com.
Chair and sofa pillows: owner's collection.
Coffee table (discontinued): Baker Furniture, bakerfurniture.com.
Master Bedroom Before
On the second floor, Suzanne designed the master bedroom and bath as a peaceful retreat where she could relax at the end of the day, both mentally and visually. A four-poster in dark mahogany anchors the pale gray walls warmed by a patterned, tone-on-tone carpet and sheer drapery panels.
Before: The mantel and marble fireplace surround didn't blend with the room.
Master Bedroom After
The goal of any residential design includes creating a pleasant backdrop for daily family life and special gatherings. But to Suzanne and Dan, it was important that this project preserve a snapshot of architectural history, too.
"This renovation was about so much more than providing a beautiful and functional environment for our family," says Suzanne. "We take great pride in reviving something that already existed. When teardowns happen in old neighborhoods, art and craftsmanship are lost. Instead of getting rid of this home and all of its classic elements, we brought it back to life."
After: A comfortable flax-colored chair and ottoman rest in front of the chic, streamlined fireplace.
Framed silhouettes on mantel: RJA Design, rja-design.com.
Candelabra on mantel; armoire; chair; ottoman: owner's collection.
Chair and ottoman fabric ("Howlett Flax" #30968.106, by Thom Filicia); chair pillow, left ("Easy Silk Mist" #29671.11): Kravet, kravet.com.
Chair pillow, right ("Paisley Linen"/Buff #2007141.136): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Master Bedroom After
After: Soothing neutrals dominate in the master bedroom. The stately bed from Hickory Chair wears a Pratesi coverlet and a skirt made in fabric from Kravet.
Wall paint ("Seapearl" #961); trim paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com.
Drapery and bed skirt ("Easy Silk Mist" #29671.11): Kravet, kravet.com.
Drapery trim: Brimar, brimarinc.com.
Bed ("Planter's Bed" #5250-70, by Mark Hampton): Hickory Chair, hickorychair.com.
Bed linens: Pratesi, 312/943-8422.
Euro pillow ("Paisley Linen"/Buff #2007141.136): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Bed skirt ("Easy Silk Mist" #29671.11): Kravet, kravet.com.
Mirror behind bed ("Suzanne Kasler Sunburst Mirror #3" #WM774): Ballard Designs, ballarddesigns.com.
Side table: antique.
Carpet ("Gramercy" #9404, discontinued): Masland Carpets & Rugs, maslandcarpets.com.
Master Bathroom
After: A mirrored panel installation sparks allure in the master bath. "We designed the bathroom to be glamorous and to speak to the architecture of the house," says architect Fred Wilson. Tile and marble flooring are from Waterworks; an antique chair rests by the tub.
Paint ("White Dove" #OC-17): Benjamin Moore & Co., benjaminmoore.com.
Hanging light (#2713-PN, discontinued); wall sconces ("Lombard"/Polished Nickel #2701-PN): Hudson Valley Lighting, hudsonvalleylighting.com.
Window shades fabric: Calico Corners, calicocorners.com.
Window shade fabricator: Prairie Interiors, prairieinteriors.org.
Bathtub: Bains Oceania Baths, bainsoceania.com.
Tub fixtures ("Victorian," polished): Mico Designs, micodesigns.com.
Monogrammed towel: Pottery Barn, potterybarn.com.
Chair: antique.
Flooring: Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Master Bathroom Vanity
After: The serene white bathroom provides a peaceful retreat. A vanity stool from Resoration Hardware cozies up to a custom vanity.
Vanity (custom): Lambright Woodworking, 260/593-2997.
Countertop: honed Carrara marble.
Plumbing hardware ("Victorian," polished): Mico Designs, micodesigns.com.
Vanity stool ("Newbury Bath Stool"): RH, rh.com.
Flooring: Waterworks, waterworks.com.
Suzanne Kipp
Homeowner and designer Suzanne Kipp brought her home back to life.


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'Lidia's Italy': well-loved chef shares stories and regional Italian flavours
For a crowd of 1,800 Lidia's Italy fans, sizzling Asiago cheese and smoky sautéed bacon provide the aromatic experience missing from television. In Telelatino Network performances in Toronto and Montreal, Italian chef, TV personality, author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich shared stories and demonstrated recipes for her Canadian fans. Italian dishes such as Frico (cheese crisp) with Potato, Onion and Sausage Filling, Bucatini with Pancetta, Tomato and Onion, Skillet Gratinate of Mushrooms and Chicken, and Zuppa Inglese (recipe below) were on the menu.
Bastianich shared stories about her family – particularly her mother, known affectionately as "Grandma Erminia" – and their trip from Bastianich's birthplace of Pula, Croatia (then Italy) to a political refugee camp in Trieste, Italy, and finally to New York City, where the family landed in 1958. It is Pula that Bastianich's "reference library of flavours" comes from. She recalls her grandmother's courtyard, with its resident ducks, geese, rabbits, goats and pigs. In September the family made wine, in November olive oil. "I grew up in a pleasant setting of really being connected to those primal flavours of food products," Bastianich says in an interview. She describes her grandmother digging potatoes that were still warm from the sun, which they would then fry in homemade olive oil.
When Bastianich arrived in New York City, she was 12-years-old. Her mother, a teacher in Italy, started working as a seamstress, and it was Bastianich's job to get dinner ready for the family. "My mother would leave notes 'soak the beans, add the potatoes, put it on, cook it for half an hour, add this to it,' and I'd cook for the family," she says. "And it came out good!" At 14, Bastianich started her first job, as a salesgirl at a German bakery in Queens (owned by actor Christopher Walken's father). She recalls even then stepping back into the kitchen if a customer came in wanting a birthday cake.
Throughout her college years, Bastianich found herself gravitating towards food as a waitress while she pursued studies in the sciences. Her official entrée into restaurant kitchens occurred at Buonavia in Queens, the first restaurant that she and her former husband Felix opened. "For 10 years I was the sous chef and I learned how to run restaurant kitchens," Bastianich says. "In the summer we would go back to Italy and I would visit chefs and work with them. So I went back and sort of evolved myself as a chef." In 1981, the couple opened Felidia in Manhattan with Bastianich as chef. "I loved it – I had a great time. People loved it," she says. "Whereas in the first restaurant we had Italian-American cuisine, and the chef was Italian-American, in Felidia I cooked the food that we ate at home. I cooked the regional food of Italy because that's the reality of Italy."
Felidia garnered critical acclaim and the attention of two legendary food personalities in particular. "I remember Julia Child came in with James Beard, both towering," Bastianich says. "They loved it. [Child] continued to always come back and asked me if I would do a show with her." She went on to appear on Child's Cooking with Master Chefs series twice, and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) then approached her to do her own show.
"I remember I said, 'OK. I want to be on public television because I think it should be educational,'" Bastianich says. "I think a show should communicate something. It's not all about what I can do; it's how can I impart some of this knowledge to the people who are viewing." It was also important that the show be filmed in her kitchen – not a studio. "I was afraid of cooking in the studio. In my kitchen at least I knew my stove," she says with a laugh. "And the shows are still taped in my kitchen."
Bastianich counts Child as a mentor and credits the learning experience for her accessible approach. "[Julia Child] did the French thing but it was not about how great she could do it. It was about how she could communicate," she says. Bastianich exhibits this in her live performance, offering cooking tips and food facts in an effortless manner. A question about choosing the right cheese for frico quickly turns into an informative explanation of cheese-making. Her depth of knowledge is easily expressed in a few concise sentences about what colour olives are when harvested for olive oil and why. She emphasizes the importance of taking control and using all five senses when cooking. While making Skillet Gratinate of Mushrooms and Chicken she instructs the audience: "Listen. You'll hear it when your food is sticking to the pan."
Bastianich's main goal when it comes to her audience is to get them cooking, and enjoying it, through a combination of technique, emotion, family and history. "I think that my capability as a chef allows me to simplify things and present them in a very doable fashion and almost empower the viewer," she says. "And with that, I bring in a context of my home, my family, which is reality and people really connect to that."
As her many accolades attest, Bastianich and her recipes have wide-spread appeal. She points out that she hears from fans of various ethnicities, including but not limited to Italian. "It just makes me feel so good that some place in the middle of somewhere, whether it's Canada or the United States, families cook my food. My flavours permeate their homes and I'm invited in," she says. "I might not be there physically but my flavours are and they're connecting."
First two recipes excerpted from Lidia's Favorite Recipes (Knopf, 2012) by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
Scallion and Asparagus Salad – Insalata di Scalogno e Asparagi
Hand down, this is one of my favourite dishes, in part because of who first served it to me. My grandmother would often make this lovely spring salad, occasionally tossing in a boiled egg or two. This salad is delicious as an antipasto or a first course, or as a side dish to grilled meat and fish.
Serves 6
1½ pounds fresh asparagus
¾ pound scallions
1 teaspoons salt
3½ tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1½ tablespoons red wine vinegar
Freshly ground pepper, to taste
3 hard-cooked eggs, peeled
Using a vegetable peeler, shave off the skin from the bottom 3 inches or so of each asparagus stalk, so they cook evenly. Snap off the hard stubs at the bottom-they'll break naturally at the right point as you bend the bottom of the asparagus. To prepare the scallions, trim the roots and the wilted ends of the green leaves. Peel off the loose layers at the white end, so the scallions are all tight, trim, and about 6 inches long.
Bring 1 quart of water (or enough to cover the vegetables) to a boil in a wide, deep skillet, and add the asparagus and scallions. Adjust the heat to maintain a bubbling boil and poach the vegetables, uncovered, for about 6 minutes or more, until they are tender but not falling apart, cooked through but not mushy. To check doneness, pick up an asparagus spear by its middle with tongs: it should be a little droopy, but not collapsing.
As soon as they are done, lift out the vegetables with tongs and lay them in a colander (any fat asparagus spears may take a little longer so leave them in a few minutes more). Hold the colander under cold running water to stop the cooking. Drain briefly, then spread on kitchen towels and pat dry; sprinkle about ½ teaspoon salt over them.
Slice the asparagus and the scallions into 1-inch lengths, and pile them loosely in a mixing bowl. Drizzle the oil and vinegar over the top, and sprinkle on the remaining salt and several grinds of black pepper. Toss well, but don't break up the vegetables. Quarter the eggs into wedges, and slice each wedge into two or three pieces; scatter these in the bowl, and fold in with the vegetables. Taste, and adjust the dressing. Chill the salad briefly, then arrange it on a serving platter or on salad plates.
Ziti with Sausage, Onions, and Fennel – Ziti con Salsicce, Cipolla, e Finocchio
This meaty sugo, or skillet sauce, cooks at a leisurely pace, while a few ingredients are creating a rich and complex sauce. In the first few minutes, you want to caramelize each ingredient as it is introduced to the pan – this is especially important with the tomato paste, to give it a good toasting before it is diluted with the pasta water. The sauce needs 6 minutes or more at a good bubbling simmer after adding the water, in order to draw out and meld the flavours of the meat and vegetables, as well as to soften the pieces of fresh fennel.
Serves 6
Salt for the pasta water
1 pound ziti
1 pound sweet Italian sausage (without fennel seeds)
1 large fennel bulb (about 1 pound)
⅓ cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 medium onions, cut in half-moon slices (about 2 cups)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon hot red pepper flakes
½ cup tomato paste
⅓ cup finely chopped fennel fronds
1 cup freshly grated pecorino (or Grana Padano or Parmigiano-Reggiano) cheese
Heat a large pot of salted water to boiling for the pasta. Drop the ziti into the boiling water, then bring back to a boil and cook until the ziti are not quite al dente. Drain, reserving 3 cups of the pasta water.
While the pasta is cooking, remove the sausage from its casing and break the meat up a bit with your fingers. Trim the fennel bulb, removing any tough outer parts, reserving the fronds. Slice the bulb in half lengthwise, remove core then slice each half in ¼- inch- thick lengthwise slices. Separate the slivers of fennel if they are attached at the bottom; cut the long slivers in half so you have about 3 cups of 2- inch- long matchsticks of fennel. Heat the olive oil in a skillet set over medium- high heat. Add the sausage meat, and cook, stirring and breaking it up more with a wooden spoon, until it sizzles and begins to brown, about 1½ minutes. Push the sausage to the sides of the pan, and drop the onion slices into the clear part of the pan; sauté, stirring, until they sizzle and wilt, another 2 minutes or so, then stir them in with the meat. Clear a new space, and drop in the fennel; let it heat up and wilt for 1 minute or more, then stir to combine.
Sprinkle on ¼ teaspoon salt; drop the hot red pepper flakes into a cleared hot spot, and toast the flakes for ½ a minute, then stir to combine. Clear a good sized hot spot in the center of the pan, plop in the tomato paste, and cook, stirring it in the spot, for a good minute of more, until it is sizzling and caramelizing. Then stir it in with everything else.
Ladle the reserved pasta water into the skillet, stir well, and bring the liquid to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and let cook until the flavors have developed, the sauce is thickened but not too thick, and the fennel is soft but not mushy, 6 minutes or more. (Add more water if the sauce reduces too rapidly.) Season to taste.
Drop the cooked ziti into the simmering sauce. Toss everything together, then sprinkle over it the chopped fennel fronds, and continue to cook until the ziti are perfectly al dente and cooked with the sauce.
Remove the skillet from the heat, sprinkle the grated cheese over the ziti, and toss it in. Serve the hot pasta right from the skillet into warm pasta bowls.
Zuppa Inglese
Serves 8 or more
2 cups whole milk
1 cup of Saputo Mascarpone at room temperature
1 ¾ cups sugar
4 teaspoons cornstarch
Pinch kosher salt
3 large eggs
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
¹/3 cup diced candied orange peel
¼ cup rum
1 cup heavy cream
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 ½ sleeves savoiardi (lady fingers)
For the pastry cream, pour the milk and ¼ cup of the sugar into a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. In a medium bowl, whisk together ¼ cup sugar, the cornstarch, and pinch of salt. Whisk in the eggs until smooth. When the milk comes to a boil, drizzle it into the egg mixture bowl in a thin stream while mixing so that you do not cook the eggs. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan. Return saucepan to medium-low heat. Cook, stirring and whisking, until mixture just simmers and thickens. Immediately remove from the heat and scrape into a bowl to cool. Once cooled, mix in the chopped chocolate and candied orange. Refrigerate until chilled and thickened, at least 1 hour.
For the sugar syrup, bring 3 cups water and 1 cup of the sugar to boil. Boil until reduced by about ¼. Remove from heat, stir in the rum and let cool completely.
When you are ready to assemble the zuppa, whip the cream, the remaining ¼ cup sugar and the mascarpone to soft peaks. Fold half of the whipped cream mixture, along with the cinnamon, into the chilled pastry cream.
In a 9-by-13 inch Pyrex or other rectangular dish, make a flat layer with half of the savoiardi. Brush with half of the sugar syrup to moisten all of the savoiardi. Spread half of the pastry cream over the savoiardi. Top with another layer of savoiardi and brush them with the remaining syrup. Spread the rest of the pastry cream over top in an even layer, the spread with the whipped cream. If you have any savoiardi left, crumble them over top. Chill several hours, or overnight, to let the flavors come together before serving.


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Joie de Vivre et Madame M.
I follow the deceased's daughter, Iris, to the hospital bed in the dining room. Mrs. M's body is lying in dignified repose. A turban hides her thinning hair and her face is in full makeup.
"Oh my, she looks beautiful!", I exclaim.
"Well, I know Mom would never want to leave the house unless she was completely made up", says the daughter.
Although tearful, Iris is eager to tell me a bit about her mother's story. A singer, dancer and artist, Mrs. M. was well loved by all who knew her. Many of the treasures in her home had been collected from her frequent ventures abroad. In a photo, from her "prime", Iris' mother bears an uncanny resemblance to Brigitte Bardot and likewise, the '60's was certainly her decade.
Looking at the daughter, I can clearly tell that she loved and admired her mother. Nevertheless, a parent like this would be an almost impossible act to follow. I make a point of not inquiring about Iris' own work, interests or accomplishments.
The doorbell rings... Not wanting to see her mother's body taken away, Iris retreats to her own home, just next door. I greet the funeral home's removal team at the door. From the foyer, one of the men is able to see straight into the dining room where Mrs. M. lies.
Leaning close to me he whispers, "Is she a gypsy?"
It's true, even from nearly thirty feet away, the rouged cheeks, painted lips, false eyelashes and turban are striking.
"No", I reply. "What you see is je ne sais quoi."
8 comments:
Very nice post. ~ tricia
- December 1, 2008 at 6:56 PM
- Gail Rae said...
Ahhh...now, that's a death, and a life, to shoot for!
The "real" Bridget Bardot has become quite a rabble rouser in her later years...I wouldn't mind doing that, either. I wonder what her preferences are for her laying out?
- December 2, 2008 at 10:45 AM
I really enjoyed the read.
- December 3, 2008 at 2:49 AM
- Kit Courteney said...
Brilliant post.
- December 10, 2008 at 3:44 AM
- Buck said...
You know, it's funny, but you mentioned she was a dancer. Guess I have too much theatre running in my blood but when the funeral home guy asked if she was a "gypsy" my first thought was the term used in theatre for chorus performers who travel from show to show and often work in touring companies.
So, in a way, she may well have been a gypsy and might have taken it as a compliment.
- December 17, 2008 at 3:13 AM
- Barbara Kivowitz said...
Wonderful story. I hope someone says that about me when I'm on my way out.
- December 17, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- dethmama said...
@ Buck... I had no idea that the term "gypsy" could mean that! I'm sure Madame M. would have gotten quite a chuckle from his remark.
@ Barbara...Thank you. She had led quite the life and "left the house" in grand style. I felt honored to witness her exit.
- December 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM
My sisters and I washed, dressed and did the hair and makeup for my grandmother's body at the hospital where she died. Her nurse on the floor knew that Grama had died, but hadn't notified others in the hospital. We were all sitting around with her body, her face made up perfectly, nylons and a new dress on, hair done just so, when a lady came into the room and came up to Grama, and asked her if she'd like to choose what she'd like for lunch.
I and my sisters started smiling and laughed, one of us said, "I don't think she'll be having lunch today" whispered (because she has passed away this morning). The kitchen lady was startled, gave a nervous laugh and backed out of the room. We felt that Grama would have thought that was pretty funny, as she was a jokester, but always elegant and pretty.
Her nurse and a couple other nurses came to see her, and they agreed, she looked lovely, as if she had gotten ready for a family party, and just laid down to rest for a bit prior to leaving.
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The guns that 1930s American outlaws and lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were carrying when they died in a hail of bullets are going up for auction. A New Hampshire auction house said Thursday that they'll do a live auction on Sept. 30. Included in the auction will be the revolver that authorities found taped to the inside of one of Bonnie's thighs after law enforcement agents killed them in an ambush. The pistol that authorities took from the waistband of Clyde's pants after the ambush also will be auctioned. Both guns could bring in between $100,000 and $200,000 each, an auction official said. FBI files say Bonnie and Clyde were believed to have committed 13 murders and several robberies and burglaries by the time they died in 1934.


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Pop diva Teresa Teng may not exactly have come back from the dead to perform in a widely hyped concert in her native Taiwan, but a computer-generated likeness of the legendary singer sure left that impression among many of the 15,000 fans packing a Taipei arena.
Teng, who died 18 years ago, ''appeared'' onstage Friday night with local crooner and movie actor Jay Chou to perform three duets that enraptured the crowd. Her virtual presence was the result of a detailed recreation of Teng's mannerisms and expressions, painstakingly put together by Digital Domain 3.0, a California company specializing in digital imagery for the entertainment industry.
Dressed in an ethereal looking white gown, the virtual Teng joined Chou in her own wildly popular ''What Have You to Say,'' along with two well-known Chou standards — ''Red Tavern'' and ''Thousand Miles Away.''
The crispness of the renditions and the stunning reality of Teng's appearance had many in the crowd shaking their heads in wonder.
Teng, best known for folk songs and romantic ballads, had legions of fans throughout Asia and beyond when she died at age 42 of a respiratory attack in 1995. Selected by Time Magazine as one of the world's top seven female vocalists in 1986, she was celebrated for a sincere and simple style that made her voice instantly recognizable not only when she sang in her native Mandarin Chinese, but also in Japanese and English, which she also recorded in.
Her songs were used in the soundtrack of Wayne Wang's acclaimed film, ''The Joy Luck Club,'' which came out just two years before her 1995 death.
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Invest in gold bullion or gold-mining companies?
If you own a gold fund, you've probably heard about the big gains gold bullion has made this year. You may also be wondering why your gold fund hasn't shared in any of those gains.
The short answer: If you invested in a fund that buys the shares of gold-mining companies — as many do — you probably lost money this year. If you bought shares of a fund that buys the metal itself, you made money.
That's not the normal order of things. Typically, gold miners fare better than the metal itself in a bull market for gold. But these are not typical times.
The argument for gold-mining stocks is fairly simple. When the price of gold rises, a company that produces gold sees its earnings increase at a faster pace than the metal itself. Let's say you owned a mine that could produce gold for $1,100 an ounce. When gold is $1,200, you make $100 an ounce in profits.
Let's say that gold jumps from $1,200 to $1,500 — an increase of $300, or 25%. For the gold miner, however, profits have jumped from $100 to $300 — a 200% gain.
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Gold bullion has risen to $1,721.10 from $1,531 at the start of the year — a 12% gain. But the average gold-mining fund has dropped 6.6%, according to Lipper. What gives?
Gold-mining stocks are still stocks. And the public is much more leery of stocks than gold, says Robert Cohen, manager of the Dynamic Gold and Precious Metals fund (DWGOX). "In a market where there's a perception of large financial problems, people get nervous about stocks," Cohen says.
Gold-mining stocks now have competition. The first fund that invests only in gold bullion, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), made its appearance in 2004 — and since then, gold-mining stocks have largely lagged behind the metal, says John Hathaway, co-manager of Tocqueville Gold fund (TGLDX). "Gold-mining funds are no longer the only game in town," Hathaway says. "Now, just one click of the mouse and you have GLD."
And, says Cohen, gold-mining companies are seeing increasing costs. As the price of gold rises, many countries where gold miners operate are now increasing their demands for a cut of the profits, Cohen says.
A bigger problem than costs, however, is the cost of starting new mines. Not only are there large environmental expenses in opening a mine, but it's more expensive to line up money for a new one. "Ore grades are down, discoveries are down, environments are more hostile, and infrastructure is less available."
When gold was below $500 in the early 2000s, gold miners were hanging on by their fingernails, Hathaway says. Now they're less inclined to take big risks. "They're saying, 'We were with you when you were down and out, we don't want to be risking our newfound dreams of growth,'" Hathaway says.
The question now: Gold or gold stocks? "Most people are better off owning the metal," says Hathaway. When you own the metal, you don't have to worry about missed earnings or disappointing production results. You only have to worry about whether gold prices will go up or down.
But gold stocks are historically cheap, Cohen says. "You have to accept that they are cheap and may stay cheap. The question is, what is the catalyst that brings them back."
Newmont Mining (NEM), for example, is selling for about five times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, says Hathaway. The stock also has a 3% dividend yield.
If the stock market rallies, gold miners could outperform as investors regain confidence in stocks. But fears about the fiscal cliff — a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that could send the economy reeling if Congress doesn't act by Dec. 31 — are keeping investors wary of stocks.


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Amtrak train to Pontiac derails in southwest Michigan, multiple injuries
NILES (AP) -- About a dozen passengers and crew on an Amtrak train from Chicago to Pontiac were injured Sunday when two of its locomotives and one or more coaches derailed.
None of the injuries from the incident near Niles in southwest Michigan were considered serious or life-threatening, said Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari. The injured were taken to area hospitals.
Amtrak train 350, the Wolverine Service, was carrying approximately 174 passengers and four crew members when it lost "contact with the track" about two miles east of Niles, Magliari told The Associated Press.
"The train remained upright and in-line," he added.
Police in Niles said the scene was being cleared about 12:30 p.m.
The cause of the derailment, just north of the Indiana state line and about 80 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, was under investigation. Amtrak service in West Michigan was disrupted.
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India's Micromax Informatics started out as an Internet company in 1999 helping companies get online and transitioned into making software systems for large corporations in 2002. In 2005, Micromax was introduced to Nokia to make public telephone machines that worked on the Finnish company's wireless technology.
In 2008, Micromax entered the smartphone business and five years later it competes closely with Nokia in the Indian handset market and is ranked as the third-largest cellphone company by overall shipments behind Samsung and Nokia.
Micromax had a 13% share of the handset market in India in the first quarter, trailing Samsung's 38% and Nokia's 20%, according to data from research firm IDC.
Micromax's growth has been significant that global companies have started to partner with the handset maker in their entry into the competitive Indian smartphone market. When Blackberry opened up its messenging app for other handset and software companies to use, it chose Micromax to launch it in the country. Microsoft also chose the New Delhi-based firm to launch a Windows 8.1 low-cost cellphone that is powered by Qualcomm's chipset.
Micromax will also be one of the first companies to launch Google's low-cost Android One handset in India next month.
Vikas Jain, one of the four co-founders at Micromax, discusses its strategy and ambitions in an interview. Below are edited excerpts.
WSJD: Do you have any plans to take your smartphones overseas?
Jain: We have launched in Russia. We might look at the South African market. We are talking to a few European operators as well.
WSJD: How many phones do you sell now and what is your goal by the end of this year in terms of market share?
Jain: We are selling around 3 million phones a month of which 2 million are feature phones and one million is smartphones. The average selling price of a Micromax handset is around 2200-2300 rupees per unit ($37-38). For smartphones, the average sales price is close to 6500-6800-rupees. ($108-113). We are targeting a 25% market share in the next 2 months.
For the fiscal year that ended in March, our sales in India reached 70.50 billion rupees (US $1.17 billion). We have an international division where revenue was close to about 2.0 billion-2.5 billion rupees ($33-42 million).
WSJD: What segments of the market are you targeting and what is your pricing strategy?
Jain: We target the youth - in the age group of 17-35 years of age. We try to define what they want and based on that we will go to the market. We are more affordable by about 40% compared to global peers.
WSJD: Give us an update on your Pantech investment. Any plans to acquire the company?
Jain: Opportunities like Pantech or for that matter any others, these are very exploratory. We remain open to acquisitions, if there is value which I can bring to my consumers.
WSJD: Do you have plans to go public and are you profitable?
Jain: We are in no rush right now. We are a zero-debt company. We are profitable.
WSJD: Are you working on wearable devices?
Jain: I think wearable devices have to move to the next avatar. It is a great marketing product right now but it has to be useful. We are trying to work around that.


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Friend of Shapely Prose Elysia (who writes the blog Born That Way) is an evolutionary biologist, and she had some choice words for the latest dude to use evolutionary psychology as an explanation for why he believes seriously douchey things about women. Please give Elysia a warm welcome. — Kate
My friend Sweet Machine brought a recent post by Amanda Hess to my attention. In her essay, Ms. Hess discusses a blog entry on the Scientific American Mind website, written by one Dr. Jesse Bering. Once you've read her post, come back here to see me talk about how good (and bad) science can be totally skewed by reporters. Even scientists. Just so we start on the same page: Dr. Bering discussed the concept of menstruation as shameful or dirty. He presented some good evidence for the social context of menstruation as having a huge impact on the way women experience/remember first menses (although he also seemed to be saying that Western feminism was wrong in concluding the same thing).
Dr. Bering is described as an evolutionary psychologist – a title which always makes me uneasy, because as "just" an evolutionary biologist (actually, I'm a population and evolutionary geneticist), I have seen very little thus far from the field of evo psych that actually gets the evolution part right. (I'm always willing to give it a try, though, in hopes that someone will prove me wrong about the field.) Let's start out with the premise: a male researcher is curious about women's first menses, and the psychological context and consquences thereof. Fair enough. What else does Dr. Bering have to say?
"Without a doubt, the best studies on the subject of menarche are those that have attempted to reconcile individual differences in age of female pubertal onset with various evolutionarily relevant variables in girls' social environments."
The best studies? Not my field, so I can't judge, although "without a doubt" with respect to a set of studies on a very general topic being the "best" of anything is a standard not often met in science. However – evolutionarily relevant is my field. So the question becomes: has evolution, of either culture or biology, shaped human psychological response to first menstruation? There follows in Dr. Bering's essay a series of anecdotes and studies grounded in 20th-century data. From a strictly biological viewpoint, this is hardly even the blink of an eye, and evolution simply cannot have occurred and been detected. Let me repeat: citing only data from the last 100 years, approximately five generations, is insufficient to demonstrate that biological evolution has occurred.
"[G]irls growing up in homes where the biological father is absent but the stepfather is present tend to mature faster than those living under the same roof as their biological fathers (their bodies are essentially competing with their mothers for the attention of this genetically unrelated male …)"
I've spent a fair amount of time studying and discussing mammalian reproduction during my graduate work and professional life. My response to the quoted passage: Wait, what? The last time I talked about this type of interaction was during a lab meeting, in the context of mouse mating behavior. Female mice experience an acceleration in sexual development because they are being influenced by an adult male's presence, via hormones he produces – they're not competing with their mothers for matings, but experiencing a side effect of cohabiting with non-parental males. (Read more here and here.) My evolutionary just-so story, err, hypothetical explanation for this observation is that some male mouse had a different body chemistry that could induce sexual maturation in any female nearby, which would mean he'd have more babies than other males because he'd be, you know, there when the females matured. His sons might have that same capability, and if this provided enough of an advantage relative to other males (and survives a number of other conditions, including pressure by female biology working against it), you could end up with males generally affecting female sexual development – regardless of any relationship between the male and nearby females. Please note that a juvenile female mouse's mom does not appear in this model. The implication of your phrasing – "their bodies are essentially competing with their mothers" – does hint at the lack of volition in this situation (the idea that girls' bodies are simply reacting to a biological stimulus) but sets up a mother-daughter rivalry where none exists. Mom has nothing to do with this, except having gotten remarried. Not to mention, there's no accounting in your summary for siblings, stepsiblings, the role of stress…it's a fascinating observation, but there's a lot of careful dissection of the situation that has to be done before it's appropriate to flag this as mother-daughter competition. (If such detail exists in the professional scientific literature, please, someone let me know!)
"reminds me of that shower scene in Steven King's Carrie (you know the one)."
Excuse me, sir, your preconceptions are showing. (Really? A horror flick? Really? Let me guess – you also consider menstrual blood to be dirty. This and other word choice throughout the essay is consistent with that position – is that what you meant to convey?)
"[The Head Teacher] suggested that 'nobody would want to talk about it' and that there would be 'hell to pay' from his many 'conservative parents' if he put his name to the research."
Sooo…because some parents might have been unhappy, this means that the girls themselves were necessarily ashamed? Because that's sort of how that reads. The research study was challenging because of – oh wait! – a larger societal attitude that might or might not have accurately reflected the girls' own feelings.
"Such anecdotes would appear to pose some serious problems for traditional feminist theories, which tend to argue that Western negative attitudes toward everything from menstruation to vaginas at large are simply the result of cultural constructions."
When you follow this sentence by a paragraph of examples of how women in different cultures experience different responses to the onset of menstruation, it…doesn't sit well with a lot of readers. Especially when you go on to say:
"According to most Western females, however, nothing could be more nightmarish than the prospect of "leaking" in public, and so perhaps it's not too surprising that so many teenagers say that, in retrospect, their preparation for womanhood amounted to little more than a how-to guide for hiding their menstrual blood from all other eyes."
As a layperson in psychology and sociology, I can only say that this doesn't surprise me, given how much Western culture seems to prize cleanliness in…everything, to the point where it seems to be backfiring. (Hygiene hypothesis, anyone?) Seriously, it seems like a viable alternative hypothesis is just that cleanliness is so highly valued that any and all sexuality gets shoved into the shadows. How often do we talk about men remembering the first time they ejaculated? Popular humor about boys suddenly doing their own laundry seems on its face to be consistent with the same "cleanliness above all" hypothesis. I'd love to know if anyone has studied the influence of Puritans and other Protestant groups that largely shaped early American culture, the evidence of which we still see today, and how their feelings about cleanliness and purity have contributed to this. (Sweet Machine, editor/human extraordinaire, suggests the work of Mary Douglas for further information.)
In fact, Dr. Bering, you allude to something like this when you discuss Joan Jacobs Brumberg's work.
Oh, and I'm not the local expert on this, but I hear there's this thing out there – this idea that men have, for many years, tried to control female sexuality. Wouldn't propagandizing menstruation be a convenient way to do that?
" When the researchers asked 157 white, middle-class ninth-grade girls what advice and information they would give to younger girls about menarche, […] one lone teenage girl of this entire group of 157 participants—ever linked menstruation to reproduction …"
Do you really think that this shows "clearly that, in the minds of these newly fertile adolescents, reproductive biology—that is to say, the actual purpose of periods—was a complete afterthought in their thinking"? Or could it be that those girls were trying to pass on practical information to their peers, since they were asked what advice they would give? Trust me, my public school sex ed made it abundantly clear that menstruation was part of reproductive biology. But that's not much comfort when you're not ready to reproduce, and it's not helpful in understanding the logistics of being a pubescent girl.
"I'm sure many of my straight male friends are indeed praising Allah for the invention of Kotex."
If you have a daughter or a wife or girlfriend or sister – please understand that she may hear you say things like this and not want to discuss menstruation with you.
" … here comes my British accent—bloody companies and their concern with the bottom dollar."
Your (public) Facebook page tells me that you hail from Ohio. That doesn't rule out a British accent, but I am rather curious. Also, in making puns of the word "bloody," you are actually engaging in a joke based on slang, not accent. To perpetuate a quote I rather like, words mean things (link goes to an OT explanation). And distorting those meanings as you do here gives me pause; were I grading this, I would become suspicious that you were attempting to sound smart so I wouldn't notice any problems with your work.
"In fact, I've often wondered if the tremendous reservation that most parents have in communicating with their children about sex has the ironic consequence of making their children more curious about it—a curiosity that translates into earlier and more frequent sexual activity."
Trust me, you're not the first. In fact, I'm willing to wager that the vast majority of people at or past their teens in Western society have pursued various "illicit" exploits because their parents forbade them or refused to talk about them. (Also, have you ever studied Prohibition?)
"And that makes me wonder if there weren't (and aren't) perhaps some natural selection pressures at work here, forces favoring parental modesty over candor in the sex education of children."
Seriously? Your hypothesis is that modest parents will have higher fitness (i.e., in the long run, will have a reproductive advantage) than immodest parents (and the word "modest" is so subjective that I feel this is already a difficult hypothesis to argue). That means that the children of modest parents must in turn be modest parents to their own children, or you simply have a fluctuation with a period of a generation, right? My very own parents decried their parents' modesty and had fairly frank discussions with me, as appropriate. And while there's such a thing as temporally-varying selection..this doesn't seem to be such a case. (By way of explanation: temporally-varying selection. Put simply, sometimes the force that makes a particular feature favorable can itself change over time. Say you have dandelions in your yard – the features of a dandelion plant that grows well in rainy March that let the plant have more babies may not do a lick of good for that plant's offspring when dry July comes around. Here, well, you can imagine that modesty might be bad if we were facing certain kinds of famine, as it would mean fewer babies and a higher chance that they'd survive, but it's unlikely that every single generation – or every few generations – we'd alternate between stark feast and famine. Even if it were true, biological evolution in humans takes thousands of years, so it would be extremely hard for me to come up with a plausible mathematical model in which relatively recent social mores affect biological fitness.)
No offense, but this is a poor reflection of the basic components of evolutionary biology. No, strike that – I hope to offend you enough to get you to stop and think, because as an evolutionary biologist and instructor, I am left to deal with the aftermath of students who come in to my classroom with serious biases about a field they've only ever seen misrepresented. Partly because essays like yours get into the lay media. It's especially infuriating to see sloppy or inaccurate science used to justify positions from the mildly offensive to the abhorrent. Please don't let the entire field of evolutionary psychology devolve into a mere shadow of the science it could be – I'd rather it be "based on" rather than "inspired by" evolution.
Yes, it's important to realize that cultural constructs influence the way biological events are experienced and recalled. It's important to link biological and cultural evolution, and to remember that we humans are animals. And as a male ape, you are well within your rights to wonder how female apes differ from you; just please remember while you call elderly women apes that you are one, yourself. More importantly, it's great for you as a human man to want to understand the human woman's experience, and I encourage you to reframe your language to make it clear that you understand that distinction. Because your personal discomfort with my menstruation – or my feminism – does not a sound scientific discussion make, and dismissing my humanity when you examine my biology ill befits a doctor of psychology.
For the record: I make no claim to perfect impartiality here – this is just me, a professionally trained scientist and a self-identified feminist talking about why a particular piece of popular science writing raised my personal and professional hackles. Like any good scientist, when I'm working, I try to minimize the impact of my own bias on my research, but you know what? I'm human, and biased, and the best I can do is own those biases and be honest about them with friends, students, and colleagues.


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The Chestnut Hill Book Festival Speaker Series continues on Feb. 7 with Dr. James Zogby, founder and president of the Washington, D.C. – based Arab American Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Zobgy will discuss his latest book, "Arab Voices – What They Are Saying To Us, and Why It Matters" at 7 p.m. at the Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Ave.
For the past three decades, Zogby has been involved in a full range of Arab American issues as co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in the late 1970s, and later as a co-founder and executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
In 1982, he co-founded Save Lebanon, Inc., a private nonprofit, humanitarian and non-sectarian relief organization that funds health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war, and other social welfare projects in Lebanon. In 1985, Zogby founded AAI and has led Arab-American efforts to secure political empowerment in the United States. Through voter registration, education and mobilization, AAI has moved Arab Americans into the political mainstream.
In 1993, following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington, he was asked by Vice President Al Gore to lead Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. In his capacity as co-president of Builders, Zogby frequently traveled to the Middle East with delegations led by Gore and the late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
In 1994, with former U.S. Congressman Mel Levine, his colleague as co-president of Builders, Zogby led a U.S. delegation to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Cairo. Zogby also chaired a forum on the Palestinian economy at the Casablanca Economic Summit in 1994.
After 1994, through Builders, Zogby worked with a number of U.S. agencies to promote and support Palestinian economic development, including AID, OPIC, USTDA, and the departments of State and Commerce.
Zogby has also been personally active in U.S. politics for many years; in 1984 and 1988 he served as deputy campaign manager and senior advisor to the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign. Most recently, in 1995, DNC Chairman Don Fowler appointed Zogby as co-convener of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee, an umbrella organization of Democratic Party leaders of European and Mediterranean descent. In 1999 and 2001 he was reelected to that post. Also in 2001, he was appointed to the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee, and in 2006 was also named co-chair of the DNC's Resolutions Committee.
A lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues, U.S.-Arab relations, and the history of the Arab American community, Zogby appears frequently on television and radio. He has appeared as a regular guest on all the major network news programs and hosted the popular "A Capital View" on the Arab Network of America from 1993-2001. From 2001 until now, he hosts the award-winning "Viewpoint with James Zogby" on Abu Dhabi Television, LinkTV, Dish Network, and DirecTV.
Since 1992, Zogby has also written a weekly column on U.S. politics for the major newspapers of the Arab world. The column, "Washington Watch," is currently published in 14 Arab and South Asian countries. He has authored a number of books including two publications, "What Ethnic Americans Really Think" and "What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns."
Zogby has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees, has been guest speaker on a number of occasions in the Secretary's Open Forum at the U.S. Department of State, and has addressed the United Nations and other international forums.
Zogby is also active professionally beyond his involvement with the Arab American community. He currently serves on the national advisory board of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Watch Board of Directors for the Middle East and North Africa and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a senior advisor for the polling firm Zogby International, where he is responsible for the firm's groundbreaking polling across the Middle East.
For more information, contact the Chestnut Hill Business Association at 215-247-6696 or visit chestnuthillpa.com.


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Dodgers reinstate Hanley Ramirez from the DL, option Erisbel Arruebarrena to Rancho Cucamonga
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers today reinstated infielder Hanley Ramirez from the 15-day disabled list (right oblique strain) and optioned infielder Erisbel Arruebarrena to Single-A Rancho Cucamonga.
Ramirez last appeared in a game on Aug. 8 at Milwaukee, drawing a walk in his only plate appearance, and is batting .277 with 12 home runs and 58 RBI in 100 games. Prior to his injury, Ramirez was batting .333 (10-for-30) with two doubles, a homer and six RBI in eight August games and has hit .293 (44-for-15) with a .402 on-base percentage in 47 games since the beginning of June. Overall, Ramirez is hitting .294 with runners in scoring position this season (32-for-109).
Arruebarrena has batted .250 with four RBI in 12 games during three stints with the Dodgers this season.


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Mrs. Finch and Children in Chinatown Sunday School, Cumberland B.C.
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- 1959
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Mrs. Finch and Children in Chinatown Sunday School, Cumberland B.C.
Date: ca. Pre 1929.
Date: ca. Pre 1929.
Bakery in Chinatown, Cumberland B.C.
Two Unidentified Chinese Women
Date: ca. Pre 1931.
Pay Statement from No.4 Mine for Wong Poy
This pay statement is from No.4 Mine to Wong Poy for $22.17. Date: December 13-26, 1931.
Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited
Baskets similar to this were given as a welcoming gift to mail order brides on their arrival from the old country. The baskets held a collection of buttons, slips of wool from a mail order company, needles, and thread.
Jemima Isbister
Chinatown in Cumberland B.C. Showing Mah Kim's Store and Buildings Owned by Wong Suey and "Slugger"
The Buildings in this photo have been identified as: Mah Kim's Store-later a gambling hall (right), a building owned by Wong Suey (middle, rear), and a building owned by "Slugger" (behind the car).
Shan-Gai Road in Chinatown, Cumberland B.C.
Ken, who was the cook at the Bamboo Inn in Comox B.C. lived in the building on the left of this photo; then Mah Wee Wong, and Wong Gola. The road leads to a pig pen that was owned by Mah Kim.
Four Buildings in Chinatown, Cumberland B.C.
The Lowe Family lived in the largest building seen in this photo. Date: Early 1960's.
Lun Ying Club in Chinatown, Cumberland B.C.
Harold Lim's Father painted the sign that is seen above the door in this photo.
Bowl with Floral and Bird Design, From Chinatown, Cumberland, B.C.
Found in Chinatown, Cumberland B.C. in the 1930's.
Mrs. Finch with Unidentified People
Ink Drawing of Old Chinese Man with a Cane.
This is an ink drawing of an old man with a cane, signed "Dave Dean, June 68."
Passport and Bill of Hui Yui, also known as Hui Fui-Yuen or Leong Hee, 1913
The bill is numbered: No. 9764 issued to Leong Hee; date of arrival 1913.
Leong Hee
Three Gentlemen and 24 Children (one is Marie Lowe) Possibly Dressed for Empire Days 1939
Names: Marie Lowe (5th person from the left); Faye Leung (far right, between seated boy and standing man) Faye is now known as the "Hat Lady" who helped bring down the Vander Zalm Government. Date: May 21, 1939.