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RDJ-- Chicken w/Garlic Sauce, 10-17-09
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RDJ
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Oct 17, 2009 08:17 PDT
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Volume 12 Number 243
US Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-3292
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Chicken with Garlic Sauce
3 to 4 pounds skinned chicken pieces
4 cups water
1 1/4 teaspoons salt, divided
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1/4 teaspoon paprika
Hot cooked rice or egg noodles
Bring chicken, 4 cups water, and 1 teaspoon salt to a boil in a Dutch
oven. Reduce heat, and simmer 30 minutes or until done. Drain, reserving
3 cups broth. Cover chicken, and keep warm.
Combine crushed garlic and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, forming a paste;
stir in vinegar.
Melt 1/4 cup butter in a large skillet. Whisk in flour; cook over medium
heat, whisking constantly, 1 minute. Gradually whisk in reserved broth
and garlic mixture; cook 5 minutes or until smooth and slightly
thickened. Gradually whisk 1/2 cup hot broth mixture into eggs; add to
remaining hot mixture, whisking constantly. Cook 3 minutes or until
mixture reaches 160F. Spoon sauce over chicken.
Stir together 2 tablespoons butter and paprika; drizzle over sauce.
Serve with rice or egg noodles. Yield: Makes 4 servings.
(nutritional info not available)
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AT THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
By Walter Mills
The Sense of Reality
Several weeks ago, I listened to an interview on public radio with Jenny
Phillips, the granddaughter of the legendary editor Maxwell Perkins,
about her discovery last year of a trove of Ernest Hemingway artifacts
in the basement of the author’s home in Cuba.
Ernest Hemingway remains one of the most popular authors of the 20th
Century, though he died by his own hand in 1961. He is also beloved in
Cuba where his home, the Finca Vigia, has been preserved almost
unchanged since his death. Jazz records still sit on the turntable where
he had listened to them, and bottles of liquor sit on a table near his
reading chair. In the basement, however, boxes of manuscripts and
letters moldered away unnoticed along with relics of his life and
travels.
Hemingway is still an important figure in American writing, and so an
effort is being made to rescue the artifacts and preserve and photocopy
his papers. At Penn State the Hemingway Letters Project is in the
process of editing and annotating the estimated eight to ten thousand
letters he wrote during his lifetime. Sandra Spanier, an associate
professor at Penn State, is the general editor of the project and also
was among those who traveled to Cuba to sift through the papers.
I have never seen the house in Cuba, but in my late twenties I returned
to Key West where I had lived as a young boy and visited the home that
Hemingway kept there on Whitehead Street. In the years I had been away,
I had read all of his books and most of his short stories. In the way
that autobiographical authors make possible, I felt I knew more about
Hemingway than I did about most of my closest friends.
There was nothing especially showy about the house on Whitehead Street.
It looked comfortable, with airy rooms, well-worn furniture, books on
many of the walls. Dozens of cats wandered throughout the house. As I
recall, the room where Hemingway wrote is connected to the second floor
of the house by a walkway suspended in the air. In my memory, the
writing room is in a tree, but that must be wrong. I do remember the
large salt-water swimming pool in the back yard because it was so deep
and seemed to have been dug out by hand.
The house did not disappoint me; it seemed to fit the character of the
writer who had advised himself to cut out all unnecessary ornament and
scrollwork from a story and begin by writing one true sentence. When all
the mumbo jumbo that surrounds the Hemingway legend falls away, the
thing that will remain is the craft, which he practiced until it became
art.
More than any writer I have read, Hemingway created the sense of
reality. In certain long passages - the fishing trip to Spain in The Sun
Also Rises, the last few pages of For Whom the Bell Tolls, a half dozen
short stories, the experience of reading seems more vivid and real than
life itself.
In the best of his stories the figures are highlighted against a dark
background. In one of his best known stories, “A Clean, Well-Lighted
Place,” he names this background - "nothingness." Many of his novels
and stories deal with violence and war, the breakdown of society, and
death. His characters, like the old man Santiago, in The Old Man and the
Sea, are adrift on a great sea of darkness with only courage and skill
to sustain them.
Hemingway is still read because he wrote clearly and simply about the
most profound subjects, the ones we are not through dealing with yet in
a new century. Like many writers, his life was less straightforward
than his stories. He was not as noble as his characters; in fact, he
was rotten to some people, including wives and friends. The biographers
do not overlook his faults though they are often less generous in
recounting his virtues. We will know more about both when the letters
project is completed. However, after the biographies have moldered away,
readers will still turn to his novels and stories for a sense of a
reality more vivid than life.
(The above column originally appeared in the Centre Daily Times and is
copyright © 2009 by Walter Mills. All rights reserved worldwide. To
contact Walt, address your emails to awmi-@verizon.net ).
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