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Chili’s humble beginnings heat up with history Classic dish also features a myriad of variations

https://www.timesherald.com/2023/03/23/chilis-humble-beginnings-heat-up-with-history/

Beans or no beans . . . seems to be the question or debate when it comes to chili. The dish is popular on restaurant menus, and in competitions that occur throughout the year to determine the best chili recipes.  And there are chili organizations including the International Chili Society https://www.chilicookoff.com/  whose mission is “to uphold the same core value of our founders by bringing together to enjoy healthy competition and America’s great culinary creation—CHILI. Our mission is to continuously improve chili while raising money for charities and non-profits year-round.”

Their mission is interesting, because we think of chili as a winter dish, however, as stated in their mission, chili competitions are popular events year ‘round. Notice, too, it is America’s creation. One thing that I learned in researching the dish is chili’s history is somewhat blurred.

A newer chili cookbook to join my collection is “Seriously Good Chili Cookbook: 177 of the Best Recipes in the World,” by Brian Baumgartner of the Emmy-winning show “The Office” where he played the accountant, Kevin Malone (2022, Fox Chapel Publishing, $24.99) His passion of making chili did not go unnoticed. He was invited to be a judge at the 2021 World Championship Chili Cook-Off sponsored by the International Chili Society.

Baumgartner mentions that the history of chili is “even a bit heated.” He said, “By many accounts, it is a red-blooded American dish; it did not originate in Mexico. In fact, Mexico denies any association with chili, and only a handful of spots serve it. Parts of Mexico that do serve chili only do so to please tourists.”

Was it in the 1880’s at San Antonio’s downtown, known for its famous Hispanic outdoor vendors called “chili queens” where the dish was first introduced? It is said that chili became popular outside of Texas at the San Antonio Chili stand during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Then, in the early 1900s chili parlors sprung up beyond Texas.

Baumgartner’s book gives myriad stories about the origins of the humble dish. He writes, some historians said, “the earliest versions of chili were made by the poorest class of people to stretch what little meat they could afford.”

“A Southwestern Native American legend claims the first chili con carne recipe was written in the 17th century by a mysterious nun, Sister Mary of Agreda of Spain.”  Another theory, “in 1731, a group of sixteen families emigrated to Texas to what is now San Antonio, from the Canary Islands. Historians say the women in those families would make a spicy Spanish stew that became known as ‘Soup of the Devil.’”

There is a cowboy story, too. A recipe from 1850 by Texan cowboys took dried beef, fat, pepper, salt and chile peppers and made “chili bricks” that were later rehydrated using very hot water. This became their go-to food during their long travels.

Baumgartner writes that “the Texas prison system made such good bowls of chili that inmates would rate each jail based on that provision alone!” Would you believe that once prisoners were released, they would request the chili recipe because it was what they missed most?

He writes about “Chili Goes Hollywood.” In 1936 Chasen’s Restaurant owner kept his recipe secretive. Famous people or their chauffeurs would come to the back door to buy the chili. The icons included Jack Benny, J. Edgar Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt. He writes, “it is even said it was Clark Gable’s last meal and that Elizabeth Taylor had 10 quarts sent to her while she was filming Cleopatra in Rome, Italy.”

Several sources mentioned that President Lyndon B. Johnson, a chili lover said, “Chili concocted outside of Texas is usually a weak, apologetic imitation of the real thing. One of the first things I do when I get home to Texas is to have a bowl of red. There is simply nothing better.” Rumor has it that his wife, Lady Bird received many requests for her recipe, so she had her staff print cards with the Pedernales River Chili recipe. It was named after the location of President Johnson’s Texas ranch.

Baumgartner said, his goal in writing the book “is to share a collection of seriously good recipes—whether they are passed down from days of old or new and original takes.”

Whether it be Texas or Cincinnati chili, beans or no beans, meat or no meat, you’ll enjoy Baumgartner’s sense of humor, and his travels to find the best chili from people of different cultural backgrounds, and differing tastes. One thing, though, every chili recipe has one thing in common…chili pepper. He writes, “by making these recipes yourself, you’re taking part in a once-in-a-lifetime journey I went on myself to find them.”

It is clear that this humble dish is much more than its simple ingredients. The stories about its beginning are as varied as the ingredients used in making the perfect chili. It’s time to get out your biggest pot and make a batch of America’s iconic dish. Below are a few recipes from Baumgartner’s book.

For the award-winning recipe, by Sean Griffith at the 2018 International Chili Society World Champion Chili Cook-Off visit  https://bit.ly/3ndZlPU

Maybe your creation will take first prize in a chili competition! Here are some upcoming competitions held throughout the country https://www.chilicookoff.com/cookoffs/list

Brian’s Seriously Good Chili Recipe by Brian Baumgartner

The headnote says, “This is it, folks. My own personal go-to chili recipe. Has it been passed down for generations? No. But it serves as my own best chili recipe that I cook all the time. Don’t be afraid to play! Like it spicier? Add red pepper flakes or Spicy Bush’s Chili Beans. Like it thicker? Feel free to cook this over the stove all day. (Just add water as needed for best consistency.) I felt it was important to add my personal favorite recipe to this book but know that it is always changing. I love exploring new flavors and employing new techniques every time I make it – so you should feel free to make any adjustments.”

Photo: Fox Chapel Publishing

1 tablespoon grapeseed oil (or cooking oil)

1 large yellow onion (or 1 cup shallots), chopped

1 green bell pepper, chopped

2 cloves garlic, diced

2 pounds lean ground turkey (or lean ground beef), undrained

One 6-ounce can tomato paste

One 24-ounce can diced tomatoes

One 16-ounce can tomato sauce

½ cup water (optional)

½ teaspoon black pepper

2 teaspoons salt

4 teaspoons chili powder

2 teaspoons ancho chile powder

3 teaspoons oregano

1 teaspoon sugar

1 (16-ounce can) Bush’s® Pinto Beans in a Mild Chili Sauce, undrained

1 (16-ounce can) Bush’s® Kidney Beans in a Mild Chili Sauce, undrained

Garnish: shredded cheddar cheese

1.     In a large pot, sauté the chopped onion, green bell pepper, and garlic in oil over medium-high heat. I like to use grapeseed oil because it’s a little less oily.

2.     Add in the ground turkey or beef. Before the meat has completely cooked, add the tomato paste. Finish browning the meat completely.

3.     Stir in the remaining ingredients, except the beans and the cheese. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes (or longer until the desired consistency is reached), stirring occasionally.

4.     Then, 20 minutes before serving, add the beans. You can’t add the beans in right away or they get mushy.

5.     Finish with sharp cheddar cheese. Any leftovers are easy to freeze.

Makes 6-8 servings

Slow Cooker Cheesy Chicken Chili

by Amanda Dorich from Windber, PA

The headnote says, “This is no ordinary chicken chili! It is made in a slow cooker and is full of secret ingredients, but, most importantly, it is extremely cheesy. Everyone loves topping their chili with cheese, but putting the cheese into the actual chili is even more delicious and adds great texture and flavor.”

photo: Amanda Dorich

2 chicken breasts

2 (25-ounce cans) diced tomatoes and green chiles (I use Rotel)

2 (25-ounce) cans corn

32 ounces chicken broth

1 packet dry ranch seasoning

8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

Salt and pepper, to taste

2 tablespoons chili powder

1 tablespoon cumin

1 tablespoon garlic powder

8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Garnishes: extra cheese, Fritos® corn chips, hot sauce

1.     Beginning with the chicken at the very bottom, add all the ingredients to the slow cooker except for the cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and toppings.

2.     Set the temperature to low and cook for 6–8 hours or high for 4 hours. Halfway through the cook time, add the cream cheese.

3.     When you’re ready to eat, shred the chicken and add the cheddar cheese. Give the cheese a few minutes to melt, then serve with your desired toppings.

Makes 6 servings

Vegan Pumpkin Lentil Quinoa Chili

by Kaleigh McMordie from Abiline, TX

The headnote says, “This recipe uses canned pumpkin to lean into the fall feeling, while also thickening the chili without hours of simmering. I’m very much an omnivore and often feel let down by vegetarian chili recipes, so I set out to create a vegetarian chili that still has the stick-to-your-ribs feel of traditional beef chili. Using both quinoa and lentils lends the familiar texture of chili con carne while also adding plant protein that you may not always find in vegetarian versions.”

Photo:  Kaleigh McMordie

1 teaspoon olive oil

1 red bell pepper, diced

1 small onion, diced

2 carrots, diced

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 cup dry (uncooked) quinoa

1 cup dry (uncooked) lentils

1 (15-ounce can) low-sodium black beans, drained and rinsed

1 (15-ounce can) low-sodium diced tomatoes

1 (4-ounce can) diced green chiles, mild or spicy

4 cups low-sodium vegetable stock

1 (15-ounce can) pure pumpkin purée

1 tablespoon chili powder

½ tablespoon cumin

1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

½ tablespoon smoked paprika

Garnishes: cheese, sour cream, avocado, cilantro, sliced jalapeño

1.     In a large pot, heat the oil over medium heat.

2.     Add the pepper, onion, carrots, and garlic. Cook for 1–2 minutes, stirring, until the veggies are slightly softened.

3.     Add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine.

4.     Cover the pot and reduce the heat to low. Let simmer for 30–45 minutes, stirring about every 15 minutes.

5.     Serve the chili hot and garnish with any toppings you like, such as cheese, sour cream, avocado, cilantro, or sliced jalapeño.

Makes 7+ servings

Stephen Fries is a newly retired professor and coordinator of the Hospitality Management Programs at Gateway Community College, in New Haven, CT. He has been a food and culinary travel columnist for the past 14 years and is co-founder of and host of “Worth Tasting,” a culinary walking tour of downtown New Haven, CT. He is a board member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Email: Stephen@stephenfries.com For more, go to stephenfries.com.

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Translation of the Interview below  ↓

Interviewer: It’s 5:39 p.m., one hour less in the Canary Islands. We’ve said a few weeks ago that during this confinement, La Casa de Papel has become Netflix’s most watched non-English speaking TV show. I don’t just mean Spain, obviously. I’m speaking about the entire world.

And we’re seeing just that in this program’s Twitter account. You can’t imagine the amount of messages we’ve received from the corners of the five continents since announcing it today and we’re going to talk to them now.

The day Season 4 premiered – just that first day – it was watched by 34 million people. That’s data that Netflix itself has released. This is a show that started here in Antena 3.

Here to talk to us, we have two confined people. Not in the Bank of Spain, but in their homes I suppose.

They are Álvaro Morte. How are you, Álvaro? Good afternoon.

Álvaro: Good afternoon, Julia. It’s a pleasure. How are you?

Interviewer: Likewise. And Itziar Ituño, to whom I’m going to refer to as the Inspector because… Itziar, good afternoon.

Itziar: Good afternoon, Julia. How are you?

Interviewer: I’ll call her the Inspector Murillo because earlier we said something else and I got called out. Some people were like: ‘we’re still on Season 1!’ and I told them ‘Okay, okay! The Inspector Murillo and that’s that… We won’t say anything else.’ Who is the best person I’ve ever seen put her hair up with a pencil in History.

Itziar: [ laughs ] Yes. Well, University and many hours of studying, you know…

Interviewer: Yes. That’s the thing. These things require a great intellectual effort, right?

Itziar: [ laughs ] Yes.

Interviewer: Álvaro, where were you when the State of Emergency began?

Álvaro: Luckily, I was shooting a TV show in Prague – The Wheel of Time (La Roda del Tiempo) and I had just finished it a week before everything happened. So I was home. I was caught in the middle of all of this. And now I’m in my house in Madrid.

Interviewer: That was lucky. Because another week, you’d be stuck with the TV show halfway done without an ending.

Álvaro: Of course. Can you imagine? We would have had to stop filming, stop everything… Imagine if I hadn’t finished my part. Since I won’t be available until this passes. Thankfully, my part is done and I’m home, enjoying some time with my little ones.

Interviewer: You have two little ones, Álvaro? What are their ages?

Álvaro: Five. Five years-old.

Interviewer: Five years-old. Just the one?

Álvaro: No. They’re twins.

Interviewer: Oh, you have twins! Five year-old twins. Of course, you must be distracted then.

Álvaro: Just picture it. I don’t have time for myself.

Interviewer: Because 5 years-old…

Álvaro: [ laughs ] I have no problem finding things to distract myself with during the quarantine. I’m very envious.

Interviewer: It’s an age where they distract a lot and they move around a lot. Well, and in Itziar Ituño’s case… Where were you when the quarantine began, Itziar?

Itziar: I was close to home. Because I was in the Basque Country, where I was shooting a film and a mini-series. I was going home to spend the night, so I was home as well. For which I’m grateful.

Interviewer: Well, I was going to ask you both if this international boom the show [LCDP] has caused had lead to other offers, but you’ve already answered. You’re full of work, with other shows and films. Álvaro.

Álvaro: Yes. Fortunately, this wave that La Casa de Papel has created has opened a lot of doors for me and brought offers on the table, and many other great things.

You have a dream of working and, suddenly, you get a chance like this… of working with these people. And, well, I have a friend with projects that are in a bit of a standstill right now. So if I already feel privileged to have work as an actor in this country… even more so when our career is doing well and we can almost chose, you know? I feel truly lucky and very honored.

But I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow. It might all be gone. So I’m just trying to live in the moment and enjoy it.

Interviewer: And Itziar, are you living something similar?

Itziar: Yes. It’s true that, in the long run, there were a lot of projects on the horizon - apart from the ones that have been kind of on lockdown because of this Pandemic. And we’re just waiting to see what happens.

What Álvaro said is true. We have the good fortune of being able to chose what work we want to do. And I think we’re very lucky to be part of the show and to have this opportunity because it’s true that most of our fellow actors are in a terrible situation, especially now. We’ll see how the country’s Culture will also be after all of this…

Interview: Well, it’s going to be the last thing to return – concerts, theatre, all of it. There’s going to be people that will have a lot of trouble putting food on the table, with no income at the end of the month.

Itziar: Yes. That’s another big concern we all have. We’ll see what happens.

Interviewer: We’ll see what happens. Well, what kind of relationships do all of you keep? For example, the two of you – Álvaro and Itziar – How long has it been since you’ve spoken over the phone?

Itziar: I don’t remember. Álvaro…

Álvaro: A long time, a long time. [ laughs ]

Interviewer: I don’t believe it. Really? Really?

Álvaro: We talk on the phone a lot on the show. [ laughs ]

Interviewer: A lot.

Itziar: We do have a group on Whatsapp and everyone from La Casa de Papel keeps in touch that way. Actually speak… I think it was at that Antena 3 thing when we saw each other.

Álvaro: Yes.

Itziar: But over the phone… it’s very rare.

Interviewer: Well, well, well… Here I had the notion that you guys were like a family. I suppose the audience is very taken by the media and the fictional image of the group – myself included.

Álvaro: But we really are a kind of family. In a healthy family, you share everything with everyone. In a way, right? Then, to that effect, we are all very much in contact with each other. We know where everybody else is and all that. It’s better than making individual connections. There’s a strong bond between all of us.

Itziar: Besides, we all lead our own lives, busy and stressed with a thousand projects. And it’s not until we see each other again, when we come back for the next season, that we settle down and immediately catch up and recover.

[unintelligible]

Interviewer: That must be a kind of Sudoku for the Production Manager of the show. There must be a signed contract of sorts, where you commit to being available from this date to this date. Otherwise, it would be impossible for all of you to be there.

Álvaro: Yes, that’s true. We do that in advance. Because anything can happen – like this Pandemic or any other type of event and, suddenly, everything can get delayed or you have to change dates or your schedule no longer coincides with other people’s schedule. It’s complicated, but it can be done.

Interviewer: And when, suddenly, one day, you see Stephen King himself praising La Casa de Papel on Twitter, even putting on the Dalí mask, which is a characteristic emblem of the show. Of course, it’s hard to predict success… What do you think is this x-factor that all creators search for and so few achieve?

Álvaro.

It’s difficult to define it, but it has it.

Álvaro: Yes. There’s always a component of inexplicable magic – because, if we could define it as it is, it could replicate it with other TV shows and they would all be hits. That’s impossible, it can’t be done.

But, having said that, I believe that it is a combination of things – it’s not a single factor. I think there are some very well constructed characters right off the script, that suffer passions with which we can perfectly identify with as the viewer. I’m talking about what happens inside of them, with their feelings.

There’s an iconography: the red jumpsuits, the masks, the song ‘Bella Ciao’… And I’m going to add something else that’s very important – well, two more things – the show has a very good balance between the drama, the comedy, the action, the romanticism… I think it’s all very well balanced.

But, above all of it, there’s one thing the show puts on the table – and that is this concept of ‘hey, maybe things aren’t as good as we have been led to believe’, and though we might be small, we can still hit the table and say ‘What’s going on here? Let’s try to change things.’.

Maybe the little guy can take on the big guy sometimes, you know?

And I think that everyone, at some point in their lives, has felt like they’re small fish in some regard. So it’s very easy to identify with the message the show delivers. And a lot of its success is due to this feeling we have of ‘The Resistance’ and the idea that we have to change a system that looks corrupt or doesn’t work anymore.

Itziar: I agree with him. There’s something irreverent about it, about putting up a fight that has had a great impact on an international level, with the discontent we all have deep inside.

It’s a bit like putting the human being at the center of the concerns of the world as a paradigm of life. And I think that that’s how it engages, how it connects in so many countries, all so different from the rest.

Interviewer: By the way, Álvaro – Would you like to play a silly character?

Álvaro: Well, I would try it. I believe that characters… Look, they’ve asked me in other interviews that I’ve done, what other character from La Casa de Papel would I like to play and I suppose…

Well, first off, how wonderful is my colleagues’ work. All and every single one of them is wonderful and I think that the construction they’ve done of thee character from the script is beyond fabulous.

So I would love to do any of their roles, but trying to get away…

Interviewer: Of course.

Álvaro: From The Profesor.

Interviewer: Let me tell you, the challenge – as an actor – would be to be believable while playing a silly character. Because no one can imagine you like that. Which means, this will haunt you for the rest of your life.

[ Álvaro laughs ]

Álvaro: Look, I also believe that the Profesor is very intelligent, but only in certain aspects. He’s very intelligent when it comes to planning or on a systematic and methodical level, but when it comes to emotional intelligence… the man is quite lost.   

[ laughs ]

He needs a boost in that sense. So it’s not true that he’s absolutely bright. I think he has his areas of intelligent action and his areas in which he’s very awkward.

That’s why, perhaps, I did find him an attractive character.

The moment that I’m asked to play a character that is completely different from The Professor, that’s when I begin to get interested. Because it’s already done, and so it’s not very interesting to repeat.

Interviewer: Sure, sure. By the way, we have asked the listeners that are fans of La Casa de Papel to leave question. Some have already sent some through Twitter, for example… Itziar, a listener asked if you guys see yourselves making a spin-off of the show as a couple.

[ Itziar laughs ]

Interviewer: Listen, it’s an idea. It’s an idea.

Álvaro: It’s an idea, yes.

Itziar: I don’t know. I don’t know if it that big of a deal. I don’t know – I’m not a big fan of stretching stories out like gum, because sometimes they break, you know?

And no, I don’t no. You have to be very careful with these things, because when you have a formula that works very well. A lot of the time… doing experiments like this, it doesn’t turn out so well.

It’s true that there are a lot of people that love all of the characters and I think they want to have more and more, to know more about each of their stories. But I don’t know…I don’t know.

What do you think, Álvaro?

Álvaro: Well, that I… I don’t know. I, right off the bat, I thought that as a spin-off, I would suggest that it could explore the challenges they could face as a couple. In any case, there is no point in doing a spin-off of… I still not quite sure what your opinion is.

Interviewer: It’s curious because there are many people – many viewers – that are in love with the love of your fictional characters, right? There are people who are in love with love, even if it is the love of others and a fictional love.

And I see on Twitter, that there are hundreds of messages from people who want to believe almost, that it’s real… that it’s real life. It’s what fiction leads us to.

Well, another listener sent in his question, he asks – ‘ask the Profesor when the vaccine for Covid-19 is coming out. I’m sure he knows’. [ laughs ]

Álvaro: If only.

Interviewer: If only.

Álvaro: I would have to ask Álex Pina, he’s the one who ultimately writes the character of the Profesor. As far as I’m concerned, the sooner the better. I’ve been involved in a movement called #YoMeCorono, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.

Interviewer: Yes, yes.

Álvaro: To try to get funding for the vaccine and-

Interviewer: The one with Bonaventura Clotet, the doctor.

Álvaro: That’s right. So, I don’t know if the Profesor knows or doesn’t know when the vaccine is going to come out, but I would like to appeal to all the people to do their small part so that we can all get out of this as soon as possible.

And if we look around, I’m certain – certain! – that with a simple glance, we can say ‘I could do without this, I could do without this, I don’t need this, I spent a lot of money on this here and I never use it’ and a small contribution from each of us could save many lives.

I think that – right now, in times like these – I feel that we have a great opportunity to stop and think about the importance of all this that’s happening and react a little bit.

Of course, we have to react as a society. But we also have the opportunity to show what we’re like as individuals.

Interviewer: And what do you think, Itziar, every time you see a demonstration demanding justice where there are people dressed up in red jumpsuits and Dalí masks singing ‘Bella Ciao’?

That must be moving, right?

Itziar: It’s very moving to think that you’re a part of a show that has become such a social phenomenon and that people are taking its symbols as an emblem of many protests and vindications. And to go a little against the grain and against the establishment that, most of the time, isn’t fair at all.

So, it’s very moving to see that, in a student manifestation on the other side of the world, they’re singing ‘Bella Ciao’; or in Brazil, on the 8th of March, the women were doing their own verses of the song. I found this incredible. I’m very thrilled about it.

Interviewer: Beyond that, I think we were touched – as Álvaro says – about the Open Arms ship that, when they rescued a boat full of migrants…

Itziar: Wow.

Interviewer: …on the high seas,

Álvaro: Yes.

Interviewer: …and the moment they stepped on land, they suddenly began singing ‘Bella Ciao’.

Álvaro: Yes.

Itziar: [ unintelligible ]

Álvaro: Of course. I don’t know to what extent it was because of the show or not, but…

Interviewer: I’m sure it was.

Álvaro: Because if so…

Interviewer: Definitely.

Álvaro: It was kind of exciting wasn’t it? People were saving lives and, in that moment of emotion, …

Itziar: Wow.

Álvaro: …they start singing ‘Bella Ciao’. It’s very touching.

Interviewer: Do you want to hear comments or questions from the listeners? Here, they have left them for you, for Álvaro Morte and Itziar Ituño. Let’s see what they have to say:

Fan #1: Well, first of all – hello to both of you. I admire you a lot, you’re both terrific actors. It’s a question for both of you, but more directed at Álvaro, because you’ve gone from 7 million to 10 million followers on Instagram in almost two weeks. How do you deal with being so well known around the world? How are you? How do you channel it? How do you get your head around it?

Fan #2: Good afternoon. My question is for Itziar Ituño. I would like to ask her what she thinks Itziar and Raquel have in common. And the similarities that there can be between a character and an actor, especially since they’re both incredibly strong women.

Fan #3: Hello. You’re the best actors in the world. I’m waiting for Season 5. It’s the best show I’ve ever watched and I hope to meet you someday. Carlota. I love you guys so much. Love you. [kiss]

Interviewer: Well, okay…

[ Álvaro & Itziar laugh ]

Interviewer: We have put one of these messages as a representative of the minimum of 150 that we have received.

Itziar: My God!

Interviewer: Well…

Álvaro: My God!

Interviewer: The first question for Álvaro, and then onto Itziar.

Álvaro: Well, look… this thing of being famous and all, it’s a little unsettling. I try to keep my feet on the ground, I try to take all of this with a lot of humor, with good sense and humility.

It’s true that when you suddenly drop from anonymity and, no matter where you go on the planet, you get stopped on the street. Wherever you go, they stop you in the street to take pictures with you and there is a moment when intimacy is out of your control.

There’s been a time when I have had to learn – and it’s something that’s been very difficult for me, because every time a fan has approached me to ask for a picture… Of course, we’re here for them too. Absolutely. And it’s because of them that we’re here.

And whenever I’ve been asked for a picture, I’ve always said yes and I’ve had to learn to say no when I’m with my family for example. When I’m with my family, I don’t want them to be part of this whole circus–

Interviewer: Of course.

Álvaro: –that is created around this whole story of what fame is. I knew from the moment I decided to be an actor, that this might be a collateral damage. But they can’t be a part of it.

I’ve tried to leave them a little bit out of this.

Interviewer: Sure, sure.

Álvaro: And I always try to agree to it, but there are things like having your picture taken from afar without your permission or things of that sort. That I don’t handle well, people being like that… But I try to take it calmly and with humor, and that’s it.

Interviewer: And Itziar? What is there of Itziar Ituño in Raquel or vice versa? Two strong women.

Itziar: The question was about – and I think so – if we have things in common. Raquel Murillo, she works in a world… well, in the Police, for example, where men are the ones who exercise the power.

She has to make people respect her, she has to maintain her authority and power. And how can a woman with her life upside down – I don’t have my life upside down, thank God [laughs] – but I’ve some of those things have happened to me.

Having to make people respect you because of your condition as a woman, you’re not as heard than I believe. Well, I’m not telling you anything new. Many of us, women, have been through it. So, in that sense, it’s very easy to understand.

[ unintelligible ]   …

At the same time, she endures a series of blows with grace and this chick pushes forward and I admire it very much. She seems to be very vulnerable but she has an inner strength that makes her forge ahead all the time. And the truth is that I’m delighted with this character.

Interviewer: That’s true. There was a meme circulating on Whatsapp in which we see Úrsula Corberó (Tokyo in the show) saying to the Profesor: “Profesor, when the fourth season comes out, everyone will working and at school, and nobody will watch it”, to which the Profesor replies: “This is where we begin Plan Wuhan.”

[ Álvaro & Itziar laugh ]

Interviewer: “Four months before the premiere, our man in China will eat a bat…”

Álvaro: Right, right.

Interviewer: It’s very powerful stuff.

Álvaro: Okay, okay…

Interviewer: Wonderful.

Álvaro: We’re getting people to wake up to their genius in this quarantine; There’s a lot of stuff that comes out of there… it doesn’t work.

Interviewer: A huge thanks to Álvaro Morte and Itziar Ituño, who have been here for a little while on the radio. When the confinement is over and you guys aren’t filming, we’ll sit down together – which will be very pleasant.

Álvaro: Hopefully.

Interviewer: I love the show. I’m another fan. Thank you.

Álvaro: Thank you.

Interviewer: Thank you both.

Itziar: Thank you very much, Julia.

Álvaro: A kiss.

Interviewer: See you soon.

Álvaro: A kiss. See you soon.

Itziar: See you soon. Ciao.

Interviewer: News. It’s six o’clock.

[carolinayourspiritmaster]

As today is the day of the Canary Islands, I am making some special posts about our magical traditions - enjoy ❤️, and check my wall for more posts!

This is kneaded Gofio, the most important of all Canarian foods - Gofio is a toasted flour made with chickpeas and many different cereals, that is added to soups or milk, or kneaded with milk, honey, and spices, just like in the picture below. Extremely nutritious and healthy food that predates the spanish conquest, and that we still eat almost daily.

[script-a-world]

Hey I have a question about creating countries that are made up of islands, but not have seafood as a staple and vegetarianism is the norm among religious adherents and even among common people vegetarianism isn't unheard of. How can that make sense?

Tex: I don’t know how far back you want to look in order to find an island culture that doesn’t eat seafood or any other type of meat, but for the sake of context I’ll be throwing some darts around the map and see what island cultures typically eat.

I’ll start with Pacific Islanders and list a few of the cultures from the Pacific Ocean:

Polynesian region, composed of peoples such as the Samoans, Māori, Tahitians, Native Hawaiians, and Tongans

Micronesian region, composed of peoples such as the Carolinians, Chamorros, Chuukese, and Nauruans

Melanesian region, composed of peoples such as the Papuans, Moluccans, the Austronesian descendants in Vanuatu, and at a stretch the Torres Strait Islanders of Australia

These groups are roughly divided into two ethnolinguistic groups: the Austronesian peoples who speak Oceanic languages, and the Papuan peoples who speak the Papuan languages. For the most part, both groups are from Southeast Asia (the Papuan first wave was from the Malay Archipelago), and their linguistic origins reflect that.

It should be noted that none of these people ultimately originated from these island regions - they all came from part of a continent that was close to the Pacific Ocean. Ye olde ages ago did their ancestors decide to strike out and immigrate to new areas, and their diet adapted accordingly. Religions that ban the eating of things like shellfish and animals are a comparatively recent phenomenon, because it meant abstaining from an easily-accessible food source.

I’m going to momentarily branch off and list some island cultures of the Atlantic Ocean so my examples are a little more balanced:

Northern: Faroe Islands (Danish, sort of), Iceland, Baffin Island (Canada)

Eastern: Azores (Portugal), Canary Islands (Spain), Madeira (Portugal), São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea)

Western: Barbados of the Lesser Antilles, Prince Edward Island (Canada, a traditional island of the Miꞌkmaq), and Cuba (native lands of the Guanahatabey, Taíno, and Ciboney)

Antarctic region: Tierra del Fuego (Chile, native land to the Yaghan),

Many of these islands were close to nearby continents, and often traded with each other for resources, so there is cultural precedent of eating things other than marine life. A couple examples would be the Taíno, and the Kalinago peoples, both of whom originate from South America. The Yaghan “traveled by canoes between islands to collect food: the men hunted sea lions, while the women dove to collect shellfish”, so still ate some form of meat.

For a couple of Atlantic island examples that did not have indigenous people: the sailors who visited Ascension Island hunted the local birds and turtles for food, and those whole lived on Saint Helena imported livestock, fruit trees, and vegetables for the purpose of colonization.

Many, if not all, of these Atlantic islanders also ate meat of some sort, be it livestock from a continent, birds, fish, or shellfish. Historically speaking, meat of any sort was a cheaply-obtained food in terms of net caloric gain compared to net calories spent obtaining said food.

While the over-consumption of anything is bad, and red meats in particular are often touted as lending an increased risk for cardiovascular diseases - which a 2016 meta-analysis noted frequently occurred with a lifestyle risk factor (Citation 1) -  red meat in moderation is fairly healthy (Citation 2, Citation 3). There is evidence that diet affects the activation of different alleles (phys.org), which is indicative of a population’s change toward agriculture (Citation 4), though in particular an overconsumption of carbohydrates can result in metabolic inflammation and obesity (ScienceDaily).

Humans are omnivorous by default, and require 20 amino acids in order to be healthy. The nine that the human body cannot produce must be consumed from an outside source - MedicalNewsToday does an excellent job of breaking this down and informing readers of viable sources of each of these essential amino acids. Unfortunately for those who might have abstained from meat before the invention of supplements, the healthiest diet for them was made with the addition of dairy products (Citation 5, eggs (The Incredible Egg, Citation 6), and fish (Seafood Health Facts 1, Seafood Health Facts 2, Citation 7)

As I don’t know the level of technology your countries, I cannot make the assumption that non-meat amino acids can be created and distributed to your populace in a relatively inexpensive manner. The nutrient density of meat vs non-meat foods is debatable (Citation 8), so I would hesitate to forgo meat entirely in a culture without some reason as to why an otherwise viable source of nutrition cannot be used.

Human nutrition is plainly a complex topic with many sub-specialities, and would take any one of us a very long time to adequately explain even a portion of it, especially in conjunction with anthropological factors such as geographic origin and developed cultural norms. I’ve added some more things to peruse in the Further Reading section below, but please be aware that all of this only starts to scratch the surface of what you’ve asked. If you would like to return with more precise questions, we’d be more than happy to try answering them.

Citations

PDF - Song M, Fung TT, Hu FB, et al. Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(10):1453–1463. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.4182

PDF - McAfee, Alison J., et al. "Red meat consumption: An overview of the risks and benefits." Meat science 84.1 (2010): 1-13.

PDF - Wyness, Laura. "The role of red meat in the diet: nutrition and health benefits." Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 75.3 (2016): 227-232.

PDF - Ye, Kaixiong, et al. "Dietary adaptation of FADS genes in Europe varied across time and geography." Nature ecology & evolution 1.7 (2017): 0167.

PDF - Rafiq, Saima et al. “Chemical Composition, Nitrogen Fractions and Amino Acids Profile of Milk from Different Animal Species.” Asian-Australasian journal of animal sciences vol. 29,7 (2015): 1022-8. doi:10.5713/ajas.15.0452

PDF - Hoffman, Jay R., and Michael J. Falvo. "Protein–which is best?." Journal of sports science & medicine 3.3 (2004): 118.

PDF - Ralston, Nicholas VC. "Selenium health benefit values as seafood safety criteria." EcoHealth 5.4 (2008): 442-455.

PDF - Bohrer, Benjamin M. "Nutrient density and nutritional value of meat products and non-meat foods high in protein." Trends in food science & technology 65 (2017): 103-112.

Further Reading:

Greater Antilles - Wikipedia

Gulf and sea island of the Atlantic Ocean - Wikipedia

List of Caribbean islands - Wikipedia

Amino acid synthesis - Wikipedia

“Microbial production of amino acids and derived chemicals: synthetic biology approaches to strain development.” - PubMed

Lobster history as prison food - Wikipedia

Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork - Wikipedia

Taeniasis/cysticercosis - World Health Organization

“How Dietary Supplements Work” - How Stuff Works

“Risks and side effects of dietary supplements” - American Cancer Society

PDF - ADVERSE EFFECTS OF NUTRACEUTICALS AND DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS by MJJ Ronis et al.

Dietary Supplements - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

“Evolution of tryptophan and its foremost metabolites’ concentrations in milk and fermented dairy products” by Antonella Bertazzo et al.

PDF - Associations of Maternal Vitamin B12 Concentration in Pregnancy With the Risks of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data by Tormod Rogne et al.

Saphira: A less historical approach would be to analyze why the Vegetarianism is highlighted by Religious pursuit. I would even gamble that the culture was originally focused on seafood, until something changed. Did a new predator enter the seas, making it hard to feed the people? Did they overfish? Who knows.

But something saved them from starvation when the waters rose empty. Things grew on land. Either it was a gift from the Divines that they worship, or a Prophet, or perhaps there’s even a stranger lore more Maoi styled: And so the [Divine] in all their wisdom told [ancient hero] to take the last fish of the sea, and plant it on the highest hill. [Ancient hero] fed their family from the catch, but did not eat the last fish. Hungry and tired, they climbed to the highest peak and planted the fish in the Earth- and the [Divine] blessed his faith and good will. From the fish sprouted the first [main plant food], in such abundance, that [Ancient Hero] ate their fill, and brought down the plenty for the first farmers.Contrived? Yes. Tried and true? You betcha. Consider how the habits and the rituals they serve today serve as tethers, or tangible connections to their heritage, history and culture.

Constablewrites: Writing With Color covered the role of cows in Hinduism here, which might be helpful for framing your thinking. But when religion is negatively impacting the survival of the community, it’s generally more likely that religion sprouts a loophole than that the whole tribe piously starves to death. (See also the Catholic church designating beaver as a fish for purposes of Lent.)

[veggieveganrecipe]

Bomb Veggie Burgers Recipe for hungry surfers 😋

Bomb Veggie Burgers Recipe for hungry surfers 😋

Hi guys! It's been a while since we shot this 'a day in our life' video. But I feel like it's time to share our favorite vegan burgers recipe! I can't keep it any longer hehe. I'm sure you gonna love this recipe!

Check out my blog for more healthy goods –

VEGGIE BURGERS RECIPE for patties:

1 tbsp. black beans (soak overnight and boil) 1/3 cup basmati rice (cooked) 1 carrot 1 onion cumin or zira

[adventuretime2022]

Hello, person probably interested in Erasmus+ projects!

This is a little explanation about Erasmus in general and my 3rd Erasmus+ experience in Ponte de Lima, Portugal.

So whats an Erasmus+ project?

Well ,from what I have seen so far  ( I have been on 4 projects ) they are an opportunity financed by the EU to connect people from different countries both in the EU and outside ( Turkey, Armenia , Ukraine etc ). Unlike the university Erasmus programs lasting from 3 months to 1 year, their duration is 10 days. They use non-formal education which means that you learn a lot but you have more freedom on the process, to express yourself and consequently to represent your country indirectly. There are 2 types of projects - Youth exchanges  ( YE ) and Training courses ( TC ) .

The YE (such as this one ) give you more free time to network and have fun, the TC are more intense and focused on the topic of the course. Also, YE have a age limit ( 18-30 ) but the courses don’t (18 + ) meaning that on the courses you can find people 30+ yo. ( I met a person 44 yo once ) You can find projects in all of Europe  ( I am currently in Denmark ) plus some funky places like the Canary islands cause they are on paper part of Spain, same as islands part of France, Portugal etc. For this ‘youth work’ you receive a Youth certificate to put in your CV which in certain fields gives you huge advantage as it shows that you have experience in an international multicultural work setting.

There is a possibility for administrative tax from the sending organisation , the organisators or both in the range of 20-50 euro in total.

The projects all operate on schedule. Breakfast, activity, coffee break, activity, lunch, activity, coffee break 2 , dinner, cultural night , party , rinse and repeat.

They are very intense in a good way. You are almost never alone, you meet so much new and different people, you learn things you would never learn in school about the world and about yourself, you find yourself in discussions that would never occur in your bubble of life about various topics, you are presented with so much information about life, politics, traditions etc.

When it comes to expenses they cover your transport ( up to a limit, that you usually don’t surpass ) and food ( 3 meals, 2 coffee breaks with snacks).

Another cool opportunity is to come before or stay after the project to explore the country and party for 2-3 days.

Now, about this project.

The Youth Exchange was called  ”Healthy me, Healthy You(th)!” . My sending organisation was  International center for development of education and training ( Bulgaria ) In the project we had a diverse group of participants representing Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Hungary , Slovakia and  Greece. ( 30ish people ) We were living together, laughing together, working together and partying together and when the time came we left together.

They took us from the airport in Porto with good bus ( clean, maintained, airconditioned ) and after the project left us at the same spot.

The venue was Albergue da Quinta de Pentieiros .We were on a farm with sheep, horses ,cows, gardens etc. I was thrilled cause I have never spend a day on a farm or a village and one lamb let me pet it. It was quiet and beautiful.

All the girls were in one room, the boys in the next , all of us with bunk beds. The bathroom situation was challenging. We had people visit the near city Ponte de Lima for groceries. As for laundry ,there were a paid option ( 5 euro i think ) , the cleaned the clothes, dried and folded them for you which was super nice.

The project was aimed to help us connect with each other to discuss the health problems each of our countries face. We learned how to make first aid , how to analyse major issues, how to network , how to come up with solutions for different problems and how to communicate effectively.

We worked on strategy for young people in a future pandemic or similar crisis ( like spreading awareness amongst the uneducated masses who do not understand the need for precautions, providing help with everyday tasks for people who are in difficult positions, distributing means of safe drug usage for people who are using , making several platforms for free fitness, books, courses of languages and programming etc.

We had a roleplay of an important pharmaceutical real case about HIV drugs in Africa in which we explored the legal system, learned to formulate effective arguments and educated ourselves on the difficult process on producing and distributing medicines.

We had a representative of the Red Cross in Portugal who did great job at explaining to us the measures that Portugal has taken to tackle the drug abuse problem they had 20 years ago ( they are leading in the rank list of countries with most effective strategy on that matter )  and also to help us understand that addiction is not a sin or taboo but rather a sickness that need addressing like any other.

We had an Olympic champion Fernando Pimenta. He told us about his way of life, his short term and long term goals, mindset and the importance of strong support system ( friends and family ).

We had firefighters as part of the program to help us learn how to do first aid in several different situations, what’s the best strategy in case of fire, broken bones, broken nose, choking with food etc. We performed CPR and other vital procedures.

We had a free day in Ponte de Lima to explore and have fun with arranged transport ( if you visit go to the gardens , they are one of a kind )

In the first photo you can see all of us infront of our working space, in the second photo you can see my co-workers during my presentation for the project in Bulgaria.  Its part of the dissemination process ( meaning the money refund process and evaluation of a work well done ) to spread awareness about this opportunity that EU gives to its young people . In the last photo you see us in our free time activities where we went on a short hike to explore the area with a person born and raised in the area. I gotta say, it was clean and well maintained. They take their nature seriously.

My advise is READ THE INFO PACK AND GO ! ‘

Safe travels, Iliana XO

[admelioraii]

Canary Islands: The escape across the ocean of darkness

Tenerife, the Canary Islands

Thousands of years ago Berber tribes, amongst them the Canariis, arrived from Northwest Africa to the fortunate islands (the Canary Islands).

As the islands had an important strategic position that offered great trade possibilities as well as hosting passing by ships, offering them a safe haven in stormy weather and plenty of provision originating from the rich volcanic earth the islands offered.

The Guanches, the first known inhabitants and natives to the islands, lived a good life for thousands of years, until the Castilians (Spaniards) attempted to conquer the archipelago, after having failed to conquer North Africa, and they shifted their plans and decided to conquer the Americas instead.

To succeed in this prospect they needed to conquer the Canary Islands first, as the location served as a natural bridge between continents thus making a perfect base for their expansion expeditions.

The wars for the islands lasted for hundred years and proved to be much more tough and complicated than first anticipated.

But when the downfall finally came it brought with it a long line of horrific consequences.

The Guanches were enslaved, humiliated and systematically killed in terrible ways.

The remaining aboriginals had only three options; to submit, to run into hiding in the inaccessible mountains or to flee across the Atlantic.

Bentor, the last Guanche king in Taoro, Tenerife, met a sorrowful destiny, putting an end to thousands of years of Guanche rule.

But it was the beginning of a new story, following the Guanches in their struggle across the Atlantic and towards a new life with new adventures in the new world, faraway from their ancestors and their beloved islands.

A ray of hope

Guanche

The small family “Aday” had been walking through the pine wood covered mountains and dense laurel rainforest, seeking cover, for two and a half full moons (two and a half months).

It had been hard and challenging, they were surviving on fruits, herbs and roots or what nature could offer.

Haridian’s husband, Atacaicate was a herb collector, used to the dense forests and inaccessible terrain on the mountains of north western Tenerife, he knew his way around well.

From time to time he caught a rabbit, a bird or some other small animal they could eat.

Haridian was most concerned about Airam, their two year old son.

She wanted to make sure he got enough food and stayed healthy.

They were hiding from the Castilians, who five months earlier conquered Taoro.

Large parts of their neighbours and villagers had either been killed, enslaved or shipped away to unknown destinations. 

The situation had gotten so bad that staying in the village would have gotten them into great danger.

Atacaicate’s (his name means “big heart”) father was killed earlier that year, that was when his brothers decided to use their precious trade connections to try to escape, over the sea of darkness, to save both their and their families life and honour.

The rest of Atacaicate’s family had already left and they had taken Haridian’s father and sisters with them, her mother died long ago.

Haridian and Atacaicate couldn’t join them, as  Airam (meaning “freedom”) was seriously ill at the time.

But Atacaicate’s brothers promised to arrange another ship, to come and get Atacaicate and his family three months later, on the first day of full moon.

They were supposed to wait for a signal, at Tacoronte beach, hiding behind the cliffs.

Atacaicate got his profession as herb collector from his father the great “ Achxuraxan  Aday”, who started out as a herb collector, then developed great knowledge in curing diseases, as a result he worked in his later years, as a doctor at the royal court, while his sons collected herbs, in his stead, from the mountains.

Pico del Teide, Tenerife

Atacaicate also learned about medicine making and how to cure illnesses from his late father, and he had been able to cure little Airam’s illness, the boy was now completely cured.

As Airam was cured and only two weeks remained before their departure, they started to close up to Tacoronte through the lavish rainforest, they slept in caves by night and walked by day on the route to their destination.

It was funny, when Haridian was born her father, who was a shepherd, decided to call her Haridian partly because the name is related to shepherds but more importantly because the Guanches used to give young girls who were born during the full moon that name, as it meant “Moonlight”.

Maybe that would bring them luck now, on the first day of the full moon, to depart safely and arrive well in the new country (Cuba).

Two weeks later after walking through lush rainforest and steep mountain cliffs they reached Tacoronte.

From the mountain cliff the view was spectacular, they settled down and waited patiently for nightfall to come.

The pale moon was not enough to lighten up the pitch dark bay, and the only thing you heard was the squeaking sound of small animals or insects in the vegetated areas and the reassuring sound of the ocean.

Haridian started to get anxious, would they be able to leave? Was it the right place? They were so close, yet it seemed unreal, her heart was pounding faster and faster.

Airam was asleep when they heard the sound of a small bark.

Was that the one? Haridian and Atacaicate stayed quiet behind the rock, then finally they noticed the promising sound of “el Silbo” (the Guanche whistle language), and they hurried towards the small row boat.

Twenty minutes later they embarked a ship that prepared right away to depart.

As the ship began to move, Haridian and Atacaicate stood in the back of the ship, looking at their island disappearing, forever. devastated but simultaneously relieved, as they were safe now, they realised they belonged to the lucky few.

One month and ten days later they arrived at Bariay on the east coast of Cuba, now a new chapter in their lives was about to begin.

Tenerife, the Canary Islands

*Based partially on historical accounts, legends and folk stories.

The Canary migrations, a new future

The systematic killing of the Guanche population resulted in that ,roughly estimated, 75% of the aboriginals were eradicated. The Spaniards had later difficulties populating the archipelago again, no Spaniard wanted to travel that far or to live on an isolated island.

The ones remaining were either enslaved, hid in the mountains or a few lucky ones were able to escape across the Atlantic Ocean or elsewhere.

This last option was possible thanks to the ancient trade relations, friendships they made in the past.

Beach in Cuba

It was certainly no coincidence many of  the fugitives chose Cuba as their final destination and new home, the reasons were many.

Once an islander always an islanders, the Guanches who arrived in Spanish America called themselves “Isleños” (islanders) as they were also referred to by the Latin Americans at the time and still are today.

It must have felt most as home in Cuba, surrounded on all sides by the familiar Atlantic Ocean.

Another reason for choosing Cuba was indeed the fact that family and friends, who arrived earlier, settled down there and formed a tight Canarian community.

The Guanche immigration to Cuba began in 1492 with the first ship of immigrants arriving on the 27 of October 1492, at Bariay on the east point of Cuba.

Havana, Cuba

Their numbers were so great that the enormous Canarian migration to Cuba resulted in that 50% of all marriages at one point in history in the whole of Cuba was to a Canarian. As there was no end to the Canarian refugees, the Cuban government had to forbid any further Canarian migration and the canarians were forced to look for an alternative migration destination.

Many of the newcomers worked in the tobacco industry, where they helped the Cubans build up their prosperous tobacco commerce.

The first Cuban writer was isleño, and born in the Canary Islands.* see end article.

The Canarian descendents preserved their culture and traditions through celebrations of various cultural festivals.

An example is the festival of Canarian traditions held annually and the contest called: Princess Dácil, in honour of the Guanche princess.

Cuba owes much of its speech patterns and accent to the heavy Canarian migrations, a lot of ancient Guanche words, as well as more modern Canarian Spanish was absorbed into the Cuban Spanish until the two languages almost fused together.

Francisco de Miranda in Avenida Paulista

Venezuela was the second biggest migration destination, where many respected politicians and presidents were descendants of the Guanches.

Francisco de Miranda was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary.

He epitomised the international importance of the American revolution, yet few Americans would recognize his name.

He fought the British in the Caribbean and Florida during the war, and in this way helped the US to win the revolution.

His father was:Sebastian de Miranda Ravelo, a Canarian immigrant.

He began the Spanish American wars of independence, and paved the way for another great man with Guanche blood as well, the liberator Simón de Bolívar, who liberated or assisted in the liberation of four territories, from the Castilians; New Granada (1819), Venezuela (1821), Quito (1822), and Peru (1824) as well as establishing-Bolivia (comes from Bolívar).

Simón Bolívar

The Canary influence in the US

Some of the isleños immigrated to the US, where the city of “San Antonio” was founded by people from the Canary Islands.

When you remember Alamo, you should also take a second to remember the Canary Islands.

The city was originally founded by settlers from the Canary Islands and their descendants died fighting alongside Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.

Even the founder of Sāo Paulo was from the Canary Island of Tenerife.

Both Texan and Mexican cuisine as well as Cuban, of course, trace their roots back to the Canary Islands, as the Guanches brought with them their cuisine in their desperate escape across the Ocean.

Like chilliest peppers and their “mojo” sauce that later became the key sauces and salsas in those cuisines.

In spite of their great successes in their new homes, life was not easy for the ileños.

The Europeans saw them as Spanish, the Spanish regarded them as hybrids, not Spanish not Latin Americans.

The Latin Americans perceived them as foreigners.

The fact that they didn’t fit in anywhere may have contributed to the Canarians becoming “trouble makers”and revolution leaders.

The few surviving Guanche surnames 

The Canarians were scattered around the world, trying to survive the best they could.

Back in Spain it was a custom when a Guanche converted to Catholicism to take a Castilian name, that is why many of the Canarians have Castilian or Spanish names.

However, there are seven Guanche surnames * see end article. that have still survived, until now.

Six of them are authentic Guanche names, the seventh, Tenerife, was given to the Guanche slaves, as a last name referring to their island of origin,  when sold or brought along to assist the conquers in Latin America.

Today we find 50.000 people worldwide (Canary Islands excluded) carrying one of these seven Guanche names that somehow have survived over time.

strelitzia reginae; flower of fire, or paradise bird

As the Canarian economy has improved drastically since  the 70s, especially thanks to the flourishing tourism industry, as many Europeans “survive” the cold, depressing winters thanks to the island's “eternal spring”.

The cultivation of fruits, vegetables and exotic flowers makes excellent export products to frozen Northern Europe.

Together they make up the lifeline for the islands and the reason many Canarian families return home after many, many years in exile.

Conclusion

Beach at the Canary islands

The colonisation of the Canary Islands by the Castilian crown led to the gradual physical destruction of almost the entire indigenous society and the irreversible disappearance of the indigenous culture and history as a whole.

The Guanches were extinct, erased from history by a unforgiving, irresponsible conquest genocide, caused by an unstoppable hunger for riches.

We were left with unanswered questions, a whole in history and a blank page that can not be filled nor replaced.

The genocide of the Guanches remains an enormous and unacceptable moral stain on European colonial traditions.

The Canaries went from being conquested and plundered to become an autonomy.

Will the islands ever be free? Well, nothing in this life lasts forever, nothing is permanent, the future will be our witness, and their enemies are geography and time.

The Guanches no longer exist, however, they still have a presence on the islands, as subjects of speculation, an unsolved mystery and a source of discussion in our modern era.

The stories of the ones who disappeared but remained, remained somehow between us, and in our hearts,” the presence of the absent”.

The Guanches will be remembered through their legends, forever trapped in between volcanoes and legends.

It is our responsibility to keep their memory and their stories alive and help others remember them.

*The first Cuban writer born in the Canary Islands: José Martí Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Silvestre de Balboa.

*The seven Canarian surnames that still survive; Baute, Bencomo, Chinea, Guanche, Oramas,Tacoronte and Tenerife.

Sources and further readings:

Book:The Canary Islands Migration to Louisiana, a fascinating history in both Texan and Canary Islands history. Containing a passenger list of the isleños volunteer recruits and their families that filled eight vessels that brought Canary islanders to Louisiana between 1778 and 1783, you won’t find a more interesting book detailing this unique chapter in history.

The Canary Islands: A cultural history, a thorough history book for the development of the islands.

The Canary Islands:A cultural history, a different book by the same name. A travel guide.

Lonely planet, Canary Islands, Guide book sharing tips on hidden gems on each island, places to stay etc.

Canary Islands 25 secrets: A local’s  guide.

Balbuena, Castellano, José Manuel (2007).

La odisea de los Canarios en Texas y Louisiana (in Spanish).

Further information and inspiration from a long, close personal relation and knowledge of the islands.

[lfir47]

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-12-09/a-teens-journey-to-spains-canary-islands-15-days-on-top-of-a-tankers-rudder.html

This time it the by ship trying to reach spain, this man is sitting on the ship rudder,

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-12-09/a-teens-journey-to-spains-canary-islands-15-days-on-top-of-a-tankers-rudder.html

Amazing story of survival and aims to make it big.

https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-11-30/spanish-government-transfers-migrants-out-of-canary-islands-port-of-shame.html

Migrants who arrive on boats to canary islands which belongs to Spain. Safety of boats, mostly men again. the unsafe one has all women ,kids and men. safety not guaranteed. Spain authorities trying their best to stop people not at their borders but in Africa...where it begins. 

https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-11-23/dakhla-the-departure-point-for-migrants-to-spains-canary-islands.html

The image showing the people at the shore in huge numbers standing and waiting for the next struggle... which they hope it would resolve into something humane 

https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-08-07/at-least-50-migrants-drown-trying-to-reach-spains-canary-islands.html

We are looking at the drowning and death at sea while crossing the waters. As there has been more tight security from crossing by warm water to Adriatic sea, 

Increased border controls in northern Morocco are pushing the migration routes to the Atlantic side

https://english.elpais.com/spanish_news/2020-11-16/growing-migrant-crisis-in-canary-islands-pushes-spanish-government-to-action.html

Atlantic is the most dangerous waters to cross in that kinds of haphazard boats without any extra fuel or navigation, many die on the way... 

Preventing Death, Managing the flow of migrants is needed.   

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-11-03-the-cry-to-the-sea-of-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bthe-great-cayucos--%22either-bar%C3%A7a-or-death%22.HJUtebVR_v.html

The cry to the sea of ​​the great cayucos: "Either Barça or death"

People taking up dangerous, perilous crossings oceans and seas.  

https://www.efe.com/efe/english/world/spain-s-handling-of-the-cayuco-boat-crisis/50000262-3294645

People crossing in the CYUCOS boats...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6109736.stm

Mother's battle against Senegal migration- In this article and the rests we are trying to analyze reasons for leaving the country behind. Loss of employment opportunities, Over fishing and taking of resources leads to loss of food and work for poor fishermen of Africa. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6109736.stm

This article will show us the shore of Africa which is guarded and less risky or relatively quick to cross... 

Young healthy and ambitious men and young boys leave their countries in search of opportunities.

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2020-11-03-the-cry-to-the-sea-of-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bthe-great-cayucos--%22either-bar%C3%A7a-or-death%22.HJUtebVR_v.html

Its important to understand what and whys of taking do or die attitude. 

https://spainsnews.com/survives-at-the-age-of-17-the-tragedy-of-throwing-16-boatmates-into-the-sea/

Challenges in the boat and struggle to survive without food and water...

seeing the loved ones perish due to dehydration. The trauma of witnessing would be with them for very long time..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/5331608.stm

I could not down load the map but it so interesting to see the long journey through Africa to reach the shores and take the sea journey again.. life looses it significance while it sails floats on water... to drown is so easy but to float and survive is hard. 

Lost at sea and the boat finally reaches Trinidad and  Tobago with bones and decomposed bodies..14 corpses..

https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/06/02/news/regional/trinidad/bodies-boat-found-off-tobago-linked-to-mauritania/

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AEONIUM SUNCUP CARE GUIDE AND PROPAGATION TIPS / Its About Gardening

Aeonium Suncup, likewise called Aeonium Castelo-Paivae Variegata Suncup, is a tiny succulent ideal and also suitable for adorable pots or containers.

When it reaches its maturation growth, it reaches up to 30 cm high and about the same diameter. Its leaves are mainly in cream, green, and also pale yellow variegation with glowing pink margins.

It generates a pretty white flower on the rosette's facility that you will undoubtedly love to witness throughout winter.

Aeonium Suncup is native to Canary Islands, Africa, and also just like various other succulents, it favors brilliant light as well as excellent drainage.

Aeonium Suncup Care Guide

Taking care with this aeonium succulent is a bit delicate than those various other succulents. If we have proper expanding problems, Aeonium Suncup needs really little pampering.

Below are some pointers on properly caring for your Aeonium Suncup and also pointers on propagating it.

What is the watering method that is best for Aeonium Suncup?

This succulent chooses a water-wise garden as well as does not endure too much water make use of because they have a shallow origin system. Caring for it indicates a whole lot, so we must understand the appropriate watering technique for this succulent to thrive.

Initially, make sure that the pot or container has great drain. Second of all, water your Aeonium Suncup throughout summertime as well as springtime whenever the soil dries. Decrease the water in the winter and also do not overwater.

During summer with extreme warm, you don't have to stress when its leaves begin to curl. The succulents act that way to stop the main collection from water loss, which's typical. The secret is for a healthy succulent plant; water it once the dirt has actually been completely dry for a while.

Where should Aeonium Suncup be planted?

Aeonium Suncup is best for planting in a container or in a pot, which you can bring inside or exterior. Also, the most effective location or position where you can put your Aeonium Suncup goes to the area where it can obtain 6 hrs of sunshine a day.

It enjoys brilliant sunlight, however excessive warmth, particularly during summer, might suffer your succulent plant. It's suggested to maintain your Aeonium Suncup in brilliant or shade sunlight, specifically during the early morning but not expose it to the sunlight throughout summer.

What soil is suitable for Aeonium Suncup?

In expanding Aeonium Suncup, we have to also think about the soil that we will be utilizing. We can use a regular potting mix or a sandy loam. Since this succulent likes some dampness on its origins, we can add these soils with perlite or peat moss to raise the soil porosity.

How to feed Aeonium Suncup?

Feeding is necessary for the growth advancement of your Aeonium Suncup. Feed your succulent plant during the growing season with a half-balance plant food as soon as a month. Feeding additionally consists of regular watering whenever the soil dries out. So keep that in mind.

Repotting Aeonium Suncup

Given that this succulent is prone to parasites, it is necessary to recognize when the repotting routine is. Troubles can create either damage to the plant or can drain pipes the nutrients of the soil. To maintain the nutrients on your Aeonium Suncup, you can report every 2 to 3 years with fresh potting soil. You can either use sandy loam or a routine potting mix.

How to prune Aeonium Suncup?

When this succulent plant reached its maturation growth, you can observe that the central collection reproduces leggy stems that often tend to tip over the rosette.

You can prune or brush your succulent by trimming those leggy stems to preserve the weight of the mother plant's rosette and also form.

What are the Pest and Diseases of Aeonium Suncup?

When Aeonium Suncup is expanded in a pot or any container, it is prone to mealybugs, aphids, ants, caterpillars, and also snails. Right here are some necessary info concerning those insects as well as just how you can stop their damage to your succulent.

● Mealybugs: Aeonium Suncup may bring in mealybugs, as well as they conceal between the fallen leaves, or they can straight attack the roots of your succulent plant. Mealybugs are generally little and also extremely simple to miss out on. They can draw the sweet compound of Aeonium Suncup that advertises the development of mold and mildew. To avoid the damage they may cause, make use of a cotton bud to scrub alcohol and straight apply it to mealybugs. You can additionally spray massaging alcohol onto the mealybugs and also white fluff.

● Aphids: Aphids frequently stay in the facility of the rosette, and also they strike it eventually. In some cases, you can see these insects hiding bottoms of the fallen leaves of your succulent. They are typically small and environment-friendly or black. They sap the sweet white material of your succulent plant. To prevent aphids from striking your Aeonium Suncup, treat your succulent with soapy water and also spray extensively.

● Ants: Ants are the doubles of mealybugs and also aphids. Wherever aphids and mealybugs are, there will certainly be ants. To avoid ants' intrusion of your succulent plant, spray your succulent plant with soapy water or insecticidal soap.

● Caterpillars and Snails: Though these bugs are environmentally friendly, they might cause damage to your Aeonium Suncup. The leaves of your succulent plant are the preferred dish of caterpillars as well as snails, so beware. To avoid them eliminate the affected leaf of your succulent, pour smashed eggshells around the primary plant as well as pot. As we understand, caterpillars and also snails have delicate skin; they do not such as sharp items.

How to propagate Aeonium Suncup?

Through its Cuttings

Aeonium Suncup is extremely simple to propagate from cuttings. To begin the process, removed a stem item from the main cluster. Let it sit under color sunshine to allow to unsympathetic over. After 2-3 days, you can now replant it in a new pot with well-draining soil. Do not forget to water extensively once the soil is dry.

Through its Leaves

Propagating from leaves is a little bit similar to stem cuttings. We have to take fallen leaves from the stem; it must be the entire leaf with the node. Let the fallen leaves to callous over for 2-3 days. Next, place it to a well-draining soil. Water extensively whenever you see that the soil mix has dried out.

Through its Offsets

This succulent can additionally recreate from its offsets, however we need to wait for a number of years to get the baby plant that shoots out from the major collection facility. Circulating from its offsets needs a little of perseverance.

After we obtained the baby plant, remove it from the main collection and also sit for 2-3 days to dry. Replant in a pot as well as usage well-draining soil. You can change your soil with perlite or peat moss for soil porosity enhancement. Do not sink with a lot of water; saturate the soil mix and also repeat whenever it dries out.

Through its Seeds

The last choice that you can make use of to circulate your Aeonium Suncup is with its seeds. Area the buds in well-draining soil as well as water frequently when the soil dries out. These propagation pointers will take a little much time to expand the succulent.

Little yet horrible, that's the perfect line for Aeonium Suncup. Its main feature is being small, however it can offer immense happiness to your yard setting. Dealing with it might be difficult, however with this post's aid, every person will certainly do well in expanding this succulent. The advantage about Aeonium Suncup is that you can grow it in your garden any time of the day, and it is harmless to humans and also pets. So everybody will certainly delight in growing and growing Aeonium Suncup.

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changes to main canon

a comprehensive list 

last edited on 3/14/18

batfam:

bruce wayne: batman & the patriarch of the family. started this whole bat thing

stephanie wayne: the first batkid. adopted by bruce wayne at age 13 after directly aiding in the arrest of her dad. when steph started her senior year of high school, bruce died, causing her to be batman. she’s been spoiler & batman. 

jason todd: brought in at age 16 (a few months after steph was adopted) and became batboy. after discovering that he was the long-lost twin brother of cassandra cain, immediately started to reconnect & discover the truth of their parents. this crusade, unfortunately, led to the deaths of both jason & cass at the hands of the joker. 

cass cain: discovered a few weeks after jason todd was adopted and brought in, only to discover that she & jason were twins. she became batgirl & along with her brother, aimed to figure out who their parents were. she died before she could discover that it was shiva & cain. lady shiva teamed up with talia al ghul to bring cass back to life so cass could join the league of assassins and/or shadows, as she was the best fighter known to either woman. this backfired on them, and now cass roams gotham as the red hood, seeking revenge for her brother’s death & trying to have a healthy & functional relationship with her siblings & outlaws. 

damian wayne: the son of bruce wayne & talia al ghul. arrived at the manor shortly before the death of bruce. after bruce’s death insisted it was his destiny to be batman, then was given the role of nightwing. he’s been nightwing ever since. 

olive silverlock: brought in after damian started at gotham academy & sybil silverlock died. steph was batman at the time & it was her decision to invite olive to live with them. olive accepted and is now flamebird. 

duke thomas: after the mysterious disappearance of the second batboy, duke started the WE ARE BATBOY movement and was brought in by batman himself. for a while he trained and decided what he wanted to do, and was offered the spoiler mantle after steph took the batman role. after batman came back, steph offered to take batgirl up but duke offered her the spoiler role and he’s now the official batboy. 

superfam:

lois lane: sent to earth from kryton as a child and raised with the lanes, kala jor-el becomes superwoman after learning about her true heritage. kala--lois--is a reporter who turns down opportunities to write about superwoman day after day because she wants to write “real” news. 

kara zor-el: cousin of kala, kara was sent to earth to look after her cousin but knocked off course along the way. she landed when lois had already been superwoman for several years, but was quick to join up as supergirl. kara has been adopted by lois and in her civilian life goes by kara lane. 

conner lane: kon is lois’s clone. he initially started fighting crime as supergirl red, but once figuring out that he was a boy, became superboy instead. he lives with kara & lois in wayne manor, and goes to school with steph at gotham university

flashfam:

iris west-allen: after jumping in front of her friend barry before a bunch of chemicals got stuck on him, she was hit by lighting and granted with superspeed, becoming the flash. since then, she’s married barry, helped found the justice league, and is thinking about settling down (for a little while) to have kids (she knows it’s gonna happen sometime). for now, though, she’s decided to continue to be the flash and resist the urge to ask bart how pregnancies work if you have superspeed and your kids are going to, too. 

barry allen: the regular dude husband of iris. he loves his wife dearly and sometimes wishes he could help out, and has settled in the role of providing food for the speedsters all around him. turns out he makes a pretty good chef!

wally west: the nephew of iris who gained his powers by asking her, repeatedly and excitedly, how she got hers. after obtaining these powers, he proceeded to make himself a costume and go as KID FLASH. he fell ill due to puberty with super speed, but has since recovered and became another flash. barry & iris adopted him when he became kid flash

bart allen: a time traveler from the future, bart’s orgins are pretty much the same. he likes to hang out with the titans and cook with barry and play tag with wally (tag with speedsters is. fun.) he’s impulse.

avery ho: she got superspeed for reasons unknown to anyone just yet and was brought in by iris & wally. since she had perfectly able parents she wasn’t adopted but she was given the role of kid flash. now she helps iris or bart or wally and hangs out with the titans and goes to family dinners at the west-allen house. 

wonderfam:

diana trevor: wonder woman & an amazon warrior who’s hundreds of years old. she’s been on themescyra for years but has recently emerged after a pilot on the way to vietnam crashed landed on her island, leading her out to try and help resolve the conflicts. in doing so, she helped with the situation in the vietnam and helped found the justice league. she’s currently an ambassador who works for peace and tries to spend time with her husband.

steve trevor: the pilot who crash-landed on themescyra. he’s married to diana and has retired from the air force and now helps veterans and people with psd. he has a service dog named willy. 

donna trevor: the daughter of diana & steve & current wonder woman. she was adopted and gained amazonian powers after marching up to olympus and demanding them. she received them after completing some trials and feats, and she now defends the earth from supervillians while her mom defends the earth from the evil in regular people. 

cassie sandsmark: diana worked at a museum as a hobby and picked up cassie as a sidekick. the role was solidified when helena died in an explosion and donna managed to save cassie’s life. she took cassie in after discovering that cassie’s father is zeus and cassie became wonder girl after gaining her powers.   

canaryfam:

dinah lance: the head of the star city vigilantes, who were a ragtag bunch of kids with slingshots when she found them and adopted them and invited them to crash on her couch. 

connor lance: connor & his adopted sister mia were inspired by the crazy guy with the arrows who talked about some island or something, and they started to try and do arrows and whatever themselves. it failed at first, but now they have a cool mom and even more siblings. 

mia lance: she used to be a sex worker but connor & crazy arrow guy helped her get out of it, and then dinah adopted her and connor and they became the arrow canaries. which is kinda a dumb name but also kinda cool. sometimes mia looks out the window and wonders where the heck arrow guy went, but oh well. 

emiko queen-lance: emi escaped from her mom and went to star city hoping to find her brother after rumors of him being alive resurfaced, but instead got brought in by black canary and arrow canaries and red arrow and now she’s red arrow. go figure.

roy harper-lance: roy left the navajo reservation to get his hands on some drugs, but then he was kicked out for good and stuck on the streets, and then black canary showed up and decided to take him in, which is cool, and now he’s red canary and has to manage a bunch of random kids dinah thought it would be a good idea to adopt. which is fine. 

lanterns:

hal jordan: the first green lantern of earth, now a crotchety old man who lives in the city and shakes his fist at the teens and really wants some peace and quiet. the other human lanterns come visit him, at least one visit a week, and they’re saving up to buy him a plane (but shhh, don’t tell him)

alan scott: the second green lantern of earth and hal’s husband. they’re both retired and have both pretty much adopted the other human lanterns & like to ask them when they’re gonna have kids so alan and hal can have grandkids already. 

john stewart: [tbd]

guy gardner: [tbd]

kyle rayner: [tbd]

jessica cruz: she used to be the green lantern of earth, but now she’s the personal-representative/bodyguard of princess koriand’r of tamaran. that’s just how things go sometimes. jess and simon are in love but also great at communicating, so it’s okay if jess flirts back when kori does. 

simon baz: the only green lantern of sector 2814. he likes to defend earth and call jess and flirt with alien girls (or boys, depending) and check on kori’s kid for her. 

aquafam:

mera: the queen of the seas. she rules in atlantis and is much beloved in her kingdom. 

marella: aquawoman & the wife of mera. she does justice league stuff while mera rules over atlantis.

arthur curry: the husband of david hyde, who was devastated after his husband went evil. arthur is a human who lives by the sea in hawaii, and he resides there with his son. he’s a close friend of mera & marella and lets them stay with him if  they need to. 

jackson curry-hyde: when his second dad turned evil and returned to the sea was about when jackson discovered his own powers. turned out he was adopted from atlantis & is atlantean. he’s kind of a part-time aqualad who works with marella sometimes

dolphin: aquagirl! she’s marella & mera’s adopted daughter and she lives in the castle & works as aquagirl ! ! ! she loves her moms & they love her & she’s workin on learnin asl!

garth: he works for mera in the castle & is her apprentice in wizardry

catfam:

kate kane-kyle: after getting kicked out the army for being a big fat lesbian, kate was a little lost until she met selina kyle at an lgbt support fundrasier. it was pretty much love at first sight, and now they’re married and live in bludhaven.

selina kyle-kane: selina was already catwoman when she met kate, but after falling in love decided that maybe being a criminal wasn’t what she wanted to do. she revealed her identity to kate, and they decided to remake catwoman’s image in another town, so they moved to the sister city of budhaven, where both women became catwoman. 

harper row: right before leaving gotham, the kyle-kanes picked up harper & cullen on the streets. they adopted them and took them to bludhaven with them, and now harper is catgirl with her moms. 

cullen row: cullen lives with his moms and sister in bludhaven. he’s catboy and is constantly annoyed with the jokes harper likes to make about their household being split into bis and gays. he does like going to pride as the catfam, though. 

the clovers: claire and her brother hank were inspired by the cats and decided to become heroes themselves, due to a combination of claire’s ballet skills and hank’s wrestling skills. they were quite frankly awful at hero-ing, but selina felt bad for them and decided to train them. hank and claire moved in next door to the kyle-kanes and were all but adopted by selina & kate. claire is night and hank is shadow. 

the gordons:

jim gordon: he’s the comissioner of the gcpd. it’s the same thing as regular

barbara gordon: after babs was shot she became oracle, dragging her brother with her. they live in a crappy apartment in gotham together with babs’s niece, and babs is a librarian by day and oracle by night. she and dick operate outside of the bats’s sphere of vigilantes. 

dick grayson-gordon: gcpd cop under his dad by day, delphi by night and devoted father in the evenings, dick has it all. cute boyfriend, great sister, sweet kid, life couldn’t be better. 

mar’i grason-gordon: the daugher of dick & kori. she loves her dad(s) and she misses her mom, but she’s sure that her mom will come back soon, or they’ll invent intergalactic skype, one or the other. 

james gordon, jr: listen ill b honest idk a thing about him but he’s basically the same except he has an older brother and he resents dick cause he feels like dick took his place in the family that’s all i know 

the outlaws:

red hood needed some magic, so she sought out fellow outcast, raven. this escalated into them moving in together and falling in love. one day they sought out ravager for a laugh. this escalated into the three of them falling in love and causing trouble in gotham together. 

misc:

tim drake: after he quit being batboy and after the death of his father, tim retreated to titans tower to become the gatherer, a self-made hero who’s salty about the bats and in love with superboy. 

courtney whitmore: she discovered she was a she had powers when she moved to keystone. she started sneaking out and practicing with her powers, & when a aestroid almost fell on keystone, courtney slapped on a mask and stopped it with her bare hands. she took the star-gold from within the aestroid and with her beams of light fashioned them into a belt and staff, which helped her harness her powers. since then, she’s become stargirl and nowadays she likes to hang around gotham and flirt with spoiler (the OG one, not the duke one)

koriand’r: starfire crash-landed on earth, kissed the first police officer she saw, fell in love with him, and had a kid. now she’s in space with jessica cruz, negotiating peace on tamaran and flirting with green lantern, waiting to return home to her daughter. 

the kents: after clark & lana got married, they moved to metropolis for a fresh start. lana works at a florist shop & clark’s a reporter--the reporter who gets all the superwoman stories, actually. they have two daughters, carol and mia. mia, the younger of the two, is secretly a meta and she can fly. her dream is to be a superhero one day like her hero, superwoman. carol’s dream is for her sister to stay safe and for carol to grow up to be just as awesome as her hero, lois lane. 

kathy kent: she was sent down to earth after the destruction of her planet. after her grandfather died, she lived with lois for a time but then was adopted by clark & lana, who are normal enough to take proper care of her and loving enough to be good parents for her. she’s around mia’s age and loves her sisters and new parents. 

klarion the witch boy: he was sealed from his own dimension and stuck on earth for the time being. he’s currently rooming with steph and looking for ways to get back home, of course getting into trouble while he waits. 

zatanna and john: a week after zatanna ran away from her father, she ran into john and they started running together. they grew up on the run, weaving in and out of dimensions and trying to master magic. these days they help klarion or the justice league. neither of them are members of the jl but they are the primary resource on magic  (they’re also in love)

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National Banana Day

National Banana Day is centered in Ireland, where it was first celebrated in 2017. It is promoted by Fyffes, a fresh produce and fruit importing company, and has been acknowledged by other fruit companies such as Dole Food Company and Chiquita Brands International. It supports a national drive to encourage healthy eating, especially for children, and reminds shoppers to think of bananas as a nutritious and natural food that they can add to meals or eat as convenience food. It also highlights how the banana is fun and versatile.

The banana is the most popular fruit in the United States and around the world. The average person eats about 100 of them a year, which comes out to about 25 to 33 pounds worth. They are the cheapest fruit and are also one of the most perishable. They may appear to grow on trees, but they actually grow on plants that have 10 to 20 feet high trunks. The banana plant is an herb—the largest herb plant, actually—and bananas are its fruit. The plant grows in the tropics.

Each banana is about 100 calories and is high in fiber and potassium, which are good for treating high blood pressure, ulcers, calcium loss, and some cancers. Bananas are also a good source of manganese, vitamin B6, and vitamin C. There are over 1,000 varieties of bananas, but the kind most eaten in the United States is the Cavendish. The Gros Michel was once the most commonly eaten, but in the 1950s it fell victim to a fungus that causes Panama disease, so farmers had to switch to the Cavendish.

Bananas are the oldest cultivated fruit and likely were first domesticated in Southeast Asia. Centuries later, shortly after Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere, they were brought from the Canary Islands to Hispaniola. They then spread to other islands, before making it to the mainland. They didn't become widespread in the United States until the end of the nineteenth century. They were so popular in American cities in the early twentieth century that banana peels on the ground became a nuisance and an issue that had to be dealt with. This led to the gag of slipping on banana peels, which was frequently featured in early movies.

Bananas were popularized in part by the United Fruit Company, which was founded in the late nineteenth century, and is now known as Chiquita. They encouraged people to eat bananas with milk and corn flakes, and they put out banana recipe books until the end of the 1950s. The books oftentimes contained adventurous recipes and aimed to get people to eat bananas at every meal. They cast the banana not only as something sweet but also as something similar to a vegetable, like a potato. One example of a recipe from the book is ham banana rolls with cheese sauce.

Nowadays, bananas are still eaten in many different ways. Besides being enjoyed plain, they may be fried, may be included in sandwiches, and may be used in pies, puddings, muffins, bread, and cakes—among other things. Although they can be eaten in many ways, having them plain or in a healthy recipe is the preferred way to enjoy them on National Banana Day!

How to Observe National Banana Day

Celebrate the day by eating bananas! Eat them as a snack or as part of a meal. Eat them plain or use them to make something healthy!

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Events 3.27

1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. 1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical. 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida. 1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France. 1782 – The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence. 1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. 1809 – Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real. 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. 1836 – Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas. 1866 – President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9. 1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place. 1884 – A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse. 1886 – Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars. 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River. 1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life. 1918 – The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania. 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan. 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup. 1943 – World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska. 1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers. 1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. 1964 – The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins. 1977 – Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history. 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212. 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges. 1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours. 1986 – A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people. 1990 – The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí. 1993 – Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. 1993 – Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo. 1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States. 1999 – Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat. 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others. 2002 – Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel. 2002 – Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured. 2004 – HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe. 2009 – The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people. 2014 – Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict. 2015 – Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead. 2016 – A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter. 2020 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.

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12 Essential Oils To Increase Abundance And prosperity

Essential oils are being used more and more often and you can find it in many households. In this article you will find 12 hand-picked essential oils to increase abundance and prosperity in your life. Essential oils helped me a lot during my life, and I know they will help you as well!

What are essentail oils?

Essential oils are natural oils that evaporate into the air. They are also called volatile oils and are also known as essential oils. The essential oil has a pleasant air that differs per type of oil. Because of the deliciously fragrant substances, the use of essential oils is often experienced as pleasant.

How to use essential oils

Essential oils are used in many different ways and for different reasons. Aromatherapy Fragrances affect our bodies and mind. Just think of what happens to you when you suddenly smell the smell your ex used to wear. Or does stepping into a second-hand shop suddenly remind you of your grandmother and grandfather? Smells are sent through our olfactory organ (the nose) to our brain, to the place (also called the limbic system) where the brain stores memories and emotions. Smelling or breathing in the scent of essential oil can, therefore, have an effect on both our physical, emotional and mental health. Essential oils are well absorbed by the skin. Through the skin they enter the bloodstream, where they help to heal internal ailments. They can be used not only physically but also spiritually. You can use essential oil in different ways, for example by vaporizing it on an oil burner or in a diffuser and breathing in the vapor. You can also spray the oil on the skin, use it as a massage oil, put it in a scented lamp, drip it on your clothes, take a bath in it (dilute in the bathwater). Medicines for example camphor and benzoin. food many food flavorings are made up of essential oils. Provided properly processed and safely dosed, a number of essential oils are suitable for making food. However, you should not assume that all the essential oils you buy are suitable for food preparation. Essential oils may only be sold for food preparation if a number of legal requirements have been met. Perfumes and cosmetics natural aromas such as chamomile, rose, or peppermint. A perfume for use in cosmetics consists of an average of 70% essential oil.

Popular essential oils that boost prosperity and abundance

Below are 12 popular essential oils that helped me a lot during my life and I still use them often. I hope they will do the same for you! Spikenard

Spikenard is a plant with flowers of the Valerian family, originally grows mainly in the subalpine and alpine regions of the Himalayan Mountains. Nardus essential oil is steam distilled from the roots of the plant and has been appreciated for centuries. Traditionally it has been used to anoint people of high status and also in Ayurvedic health practices in India. Earlier Nardus was used to improve the mood and promote relaxation. Nardus promotes clean, healthy skin. Today it is widely used in perfumes and relaxing massage oils for its woody, musky scent. Bergamot

Bergamot essential oil comes from the fruit of the Bergamot tree, Citrus bergamia, which originally comes from the Canary Islands. The fruit is a cross between bitter orange and lemon and resembles a miniature orange. Bergamot oil is extracted by cold pressing of the outer parts of the skin of the unripe fruit. The color is green-orange but can change to olive as it ages. Because of the typical smell Bergamot is also popular in the perfume industry. (Eau de Cologne). It is also used in the production of earl grey tea. Clary sage

Clary Sage is known for its exhilarating and mood-enhancing qualities. It is widely used by women to soothe the monthly discomfort associated with menstrual cycles. In the Middle Ages, Clary Sage was nicknamed 'clear eyes' for its positive effects on the eyes. Clary Sage is also an oil that can be used for epilepsy. It helps Reduces the discomfort associated with the monthly cycle. It helps balance the hormone level. It calms the nervous system, improves mood and is soothing for the skin. Cypress

Cypress is good support in case of major changes in life. Cypress can give comfort and strength to sad experiences, such as the death of a loved person or the end of a relationship. Cypress also gives courage and perseverance to break new ground. The oil relaxes the nerves, when mentally or emotionally exhausted the vaporization of Cypress oil can give strength again. The oil is especially suitable for anxious and depressed people. Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus oil is an oil that is extracted from the leaves of the Eucalyptus tree. Although there are more than 600 species of Eucalyptus, less than 20 species are suitable for commercial, large-scale oil production. The Eucalyptus originates from Australia. Approximately 75% of all trees on that continent are Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus Oil is known for its antibacterial properties. It is also a natural pain reliever and it boosts the immune system. Frankincence

Frankincense, is a holy oil that is used in the Middle East as an ingredient during holy initiations. It used to be used during sacrificial ceremonies to improve communication with the Creator. Frankincense is a resin from the Frankincense tree. The aroma of this resin "tears" is appreciated for its healing properties. Used for religious rituals since the time of the ancient Egyptians. Ginger

Ginger has a very pleasant warm, powerful, and fiery fragrance that gives new life. In the case of weakness and despondency, the oil gives energy and strengthens the immune system. Ginger also stimulates the appetite, stimulates, gives more energy and calms the intestines. Ginger oil has a strong warming effect and makes the muscles supple again. Ginger oil is therefore ideal for massage of hardened muscles, muscle aches. Jasmine

jasmine absolute brings warmth and openness as if we were coming home to our original home, the place where we can fully relax and open in our body, heart and mind.jasmine transforms our lower and instinctive emotions and takes them to a higher level. Jasmine absolute is warming and stimulating and can, therefore, best be used in the following cases for someone who gets cold quickly and lacks energy, not only physically but also mentally. Orange

Orange oil gives you joy and vitality, warms, and takes away the fear of the new path. A great oil to clear up prejudices and have a big heart for everyone. Orange oil has a soothing effect on the digestive system and strengthens the mind. Orange oil is used in aromatherapy to create a warm and pleasant atmosphere. Rosemary

The smell of essential rosemary oil is said to have a stimulating effect and is used to give new strength. Furthermore, rosemary stimulates concentration. Essential Rosemary oil is also regularly applied to hairy skin. Rosemary oil is said to stimulate hair growth to a small extent and to slow down hair aging. Thyme

Thyme oil comes from the herb Thymus vulgaris and is related to the mint. It is used in aromatherapy, in the kitchen, and in oral care products. Thyme oil is one of the strongest antioxidants. Thyme oil dissolves clogging and heals respiratory infections. Thyme is also beneficial for sore throats and coughs. The common cold brings with it nasty symptoms, which are all dealt with by the oil of this herb. Patchouli

For centuries, Patchouli has been used in Asian countries for its supposed ability to fight infection, cool fever and as an antidote to insect and snake bites. Patchouli oil has an easily recognizable rich musk-sweet scent. It has historically been used to balance emotions and as an excellent mood support. Patchouli has a fungicidal effect, especially on skin fungi, is a cell renewer and promotes the healing of wounds. The oil is cell renewing and strengthens the vein wall, is anti-inflammatory and erotic.

Conclusion Nature is a treasure trove of plants, herbs and flowers, which can contribute to your health and state of mind. Essential oils are a gateway to many health benefits nature offers. The possible combinations are truly endless and of course everyone has their own preference for a certain scent, atmosphere or intention. Read the full article

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The Canary Island Cuisine: Eat like the Canaries do…..

It is a HUGE must, that you add the following to your itinerary when scheduling an excursion to the Canary Islands:

EAT as much as you can!!!

To be honest, that should be at the top of your To-Do list if you’re travelling anywhere! But in the Canaries, you probably shouldn’t leave without trying out their cuisine.

Apart from the warm sunny beaches, the highlight is the food in the Canaries. Warning: it’s extremely possible that I might say that about any destination 😉

These dishes caught my eye and my cravings – well mostly because I couldn’t resist and because it was something new & unusual.

In no particular order, here are the best dishes you need to try in the Canary Islands

Papas Arrugadas Con Mojo

You say potatoes, they say ‘papas’… These potatoes are nothing like the ones we eat at home. The volcanic earth and climate in which they are grown produce smaller potatoes with a distinct taste & texture and taste. Known as “Wrinkled potatoes”, boiled with the skin in saltwater until soft, leaving the potatoes with wrinkles and with a salty crust, dressed with a generous topping of mojo picón – a delicious spicy sauce made with garlic, olive oil, red or green pepper, cumin, salt, and vinegar, also often served on its own as a snack, washed down with a tall glass of wine.

Ropa Vieja

The words ropa vieja, literally means “old clothes” in Spanish, but don’t worry no old clothes were added to this dish! It’s made of shredded beef, chicken or pork and vegetables that resemble a heap of colourful rags, its name comes from the fact that it’s traditionally made with leftovers & is one of Canaria’s most popular and dearly loved dishes.

Rancho Canario

Having the munchies? Then dip your spoon into a bowl of one of the signature dishes, a hearty soup. It’s a tastefully thickened noodle soup made with chicken, pork and chickpeas, with a selection of vegetables – and not forgetting papas, obviously! I must say, it sure does hit the spot.

Pollo al Salmorejo and Conejo al Salmorejo

The Canarians just adore this dish, light yet robust special. Pollo al salmorejo is a delightful garlicky marinated chicken dish, cooked in white wine and seasoned with cumin, oregano, paprika, and thyme. Conejo al salmorejo follows the same recipe but with rabbit meat.

Gofio

This is a superfood and it’s not for the skittish but it’s a dish that echoes the history of the Canary Islands and its people. Gofio is a flour made from roasted grains of wheat, maize whose uses are endless and weird. It’s used to make many foods from dumplings for soups and sometimes ice cream. It’s not the easily palatable but the for the Canarians, its a meal packed with healthy vitamins and minerals.

Padrón Peppers

Padrón peppers, these small green peppers are named after the town of Padron on mainland Spain, but they’re often served as a starter or as a tapas dish in Tenerife. The little bad boys are fried whole in olive oil and a sprinkling of sea salt is added. Pick them up by the stems to eat. The peppers are very different in flavour, some piquant and some sweet, and you will not know which you’ve got until you bite into them.

Wine

The perfect way to wash down all that spice is with a delightful glass of wine. Canary Island winemakers have extremely old vines grown on the volcanic soil which is perfect for creating outstanding flavourful wines. They produce both red and white wine, but their sweet and semisweet white wines are known for light, aromatic notes and are perfect for keeping cool under the Canary Island sun.

Bienmesabe

Made on Gran Canaria, which is famous for its almond trees, Bienmesabe is a sweet, soft puree made with ground almonds, egg yolk, sugar, lemon zest, and cinnamon. It is usually served with ice cream or cream. I mean, what’s not to love about a dessert whose name literally translates as “tastes good to me”?

Mouthwatering food, warm sunny beaches, and many delights await you in the Canary Islands! Travel Center UK has got the perfect solution If you’re planning to make a visit, we’ll be more than happy to help you find cheap flights, hotel deals, and planned excursions. So, call or send us an e-mail and you’ll be able to start planning your holiday today!

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Interesting and little known facts about bananas

Banana is one of the most popular fruits in the world today. Almost all Bananas, and all kinds of bananas also started as a relative of one or two bananas.

Bananas are tropical fruits that belong to the same family of plants Orchid flower. They are probably the tallest fruit in which they were grown Date. Their home is South and Southeast Asia, they are also citizens of each other

The regions of Mexico, where bananas were grown or cooked by indigenous people American tribes are there. Banana is the largest flowering herb. The plant may grow to a height of up to 25 feet and can hold more than 20 layers, or Packages of bananas with each layer of 10 to 50 pieces of fruit.

History of bananas - a well traveled fruit The history of bananas is unique. The absolute origin of the banana plant It was traced somewhere near Malaysia. Visitors to the area took bananas Returning with them to India where they started cultivating. First time Bananas are mentioned in history around the sixth century, where they are Mentioned in Buddhist writings. Alexander the Great once again mentioned them in his writings as something very tasty, a yellow fruit that he saw growing in a palm tree-like tree.

The next fruit traveled to China. They were only cultivated in the far south Parts of China are surprisingly not a favorite. In China, they were She is considered very rare and not very popular, and she has not acquired any of them Real popularity until about the twentieth century.

Over time, the banana fruit reached Madagascar, where the warriors They were actively involved in the slave and ivory trade. They found bananas there too And to their liking, he made a very good job in the banana trade. banana Continued westward landing in the Canary Islands.

Banana comes to the United States While travel by ship was still relatively slow and planes were not yet The method of transportation, getting bananas to a remote location was not easy. It was difficult to obtain fruits before they were marketed Achievement.

It was only 300 years after landing in the Canary Islands, when bananas arrived in the United States. They were shocked to people. Bananas arrived in the United States in 1876, and this was the first time they had appeared in the United States. The first appearance of bananas in the United States was in Pennsylvania. It has been sold In a exhibition of ten cents per banana in a festival Commemoration of the centenary of the Declaration of Independence. In fact, she was so rare that she came up with instructions on how to take it.

Banana - for the time being Today, it can be said that bananas are the most popular fruit in the world. It is used for Juices, for decoration, for baked goods and in pancakes, as well as for making wine, or mixed with orange juice and other products to create nutritious drinks. Bananas are boiled, grilled, fried, grilled, and sliced ​​in pancakes, on cereal and mixed in hot beans.

Interesting and unknown facts about bananas 1- One banana contains the same calories as single potatoes. Also this Contains starch and in many cases, especially in developing countries, Bananas are cooked the same way, making banana chips boiled Bananas, fried bananas, and mashed bananas.

2- In many countries, bananas are an essential ingredient, as is the case in the United States Countries and part of Europe.

3- Bananas are grown today in more than 100 countries around the world. to me To a lesser extent Banana Tree is also grown for tree fibers.

It may interest you to know that a banana palm is not really a tree. it's a The world's largest herb and banana leaves actually contain some very Healthy nutrients. They themselves use food rolls to roast, as they are Dishes are great for carrying or carrying food, as well as for making clothes from the basic.

Banana is not in any real danger of being completely extinct. However There are some problems with the plant. The most common type of banana, Cavendish, is very popular in The Americas, as well as in Europe, are in trouble. It may become unable to grow on a large scale in less than ten or twenty years.

There is one banana, which was discovered in the early nineteenth century I did it. The most preferred type of banana lacks many genes diversity. This is true for almost all types of bananas. Because of this, it is Very vulnerable to diseased plants and a banana receptor may be at risk. The researchers blame the plant's decline for what they call "mono genetics" that is widely used by many banana producers.

It is said that if the end result is to this end and forced cultivation continues Bananas, as we know, will not be able to be produced this way large numbers.