Daily Holidays - December 22

[Sherman A1]

National Date Nut
 Bread Day Date Walnut Bread is a very nice tea bread bursting with the flavor of sweet dates and crunchy walnuts. Jean Anderson tells us in her book 'The American Century Cookbook' that the first recipes for this bread began to appear in the 1920s, and it was so popular in the 1930s that it was used to make tea sandwiches. In fact, these tea sandwiches are so delicious you may want to try them. Take two thin slices of your Date and Walnut Bread and sandwich them together with a layer of cream cheese or butter. Then cut the bread into fingers, squares or triangles.

Read more: http://www.joyofbaking.com/breakfast/DateWalnutBread.html#ixzz3MbunPTOr

National Haiku Poetry Day This article is about the Japanese poetic form. For haiku poetry written in English, see Haiku in English. For other uses, see Haiku (disambiguation).
Haiku (俳句, About this sound listen (help·info), haikai verse?) (plural: same or haikus) is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:

The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru).[1] This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word&quot between them,[2] a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colors the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively.[3]
A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words.
Modern Japanese haiku (現代俳句 gendai-haiku?) are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 on or to take nature as their subject, but the use of juxtaposition continues to be honored in both traditional and modern haiku.[4] There is a common, although relatively recent, perception that the images juxtaposed must be directly observed everyday objects or occurrences.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/december22.html

[azurnoir]

1. ah

date nut bread in can
cream cheese butter in my hand
nom nom nom so good

[Sherman A1]

2. Perfect!

What could be butter!!!!

[azurnoir]

4. why cream cheese of course

[Sherman A1]

11. We are pleased to announce

azurnoir as our new Poet Laureate of the DU Lounge Daily Holidays.

A round of

[In_The_Wind]

3. I love Date Nut Bread!

It's great with creamed cheese and coffee. [img][/img]

[Sanity Claws]

6. That was the mainstay of Chock Full O' Nuts for decades

Chock Full O' Nuts was a coffee shop that was an institution in New York for decades.

I sound like an old timer. Sigh!

[In_The_Wind]

8. I remember drinking Chock Full O' Nuts coffee

http://www.chockfullonuts.com/cafe-locator The Cafés still exist.

I'm officially an old timer too.

[Sanity Claws]

9. I'll have to check them out

I remember the one that was reopened on West 23rd Street but I think it closed.
I liked their coffee.

[bigwillq]

5. Ugh. Don't like Date Nut Bread.

[femmocrat]

7. Happy Birthday, Lady Bird!

Claudia Alta Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States (1963–69) during the presidency of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson.

Notably well-educated for her time, she proved a capable manager and a shrewd investor. After marrying LBJ in 1934 when he was a political hopeful in Austin, Texas, she used a modest inheritance to bankroll his congressional campaign, and then ran his office while he was serving in the navy. Next, she bought a radio station and then a TV station, which would soon make them millionaires. As First Lady, she broke new ground by interacting directly with Congress, employing her own press secretary, and making a solo electioneering tour.

Johnson was a lifelong advocate for beautifying the nation's cities and highways ("Where flowers bloom, so does hope&quot and the Highway Beautification Act was informally known as Lady Bird's Bill. She was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest US civilian honors. (Wikipedia)

[olddots]

10. cream cheese on datenut bread

Most exellent treat at coffee shops in 60s &70s