During the American colonial period, lobsters were not valued as food and were mainly eaten by the poor, prisoners, and indentured servants.
Native tribes near the coasts used lobsters as fertilizer or bait rather than food.
People even hid lobster shells to avoid the stigma of poverty. In Massachusetts, indentured servants sued to limit their lobster meals to three times a week, winning the case. Lobsters were abundant, easy to collect from the shore, and considered bottom feeders.
They were often consumed as a paste or stew. In the early 19th century, lobsters were cheaper than Boston baked beans, sometimes even fed to cats.
However, by the late 19th century, as railroads spread and lobsters were served on trains, people who were unfamiliar with them found them delicious.
This led to increased demand and the start of lobster canning. By the 1920s, with lobsters becoming less plentiful but demand growing, lobsters transitioned to a delicacy, popular among celebrities and the wealthy by the 1950s.
"Notice humans get stuck in their own self-created time loops and energetic projections until they consciously create events that are vibrationally out of phase with the loop itself." - Liara Covert
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When Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon first put on the female makeup and costumes for "Some Like It Hot" (1959), , they walked around the Goldwyn Studios lot to see if they could "pass" as women. Then they tried using mirrors in public ladies rooms to fix their makeup, and when none of the women using it complained, they knew they could be convincing as women. There is a scene on the train recreating this moment.
Lemmon got along with Marilyn Monroe and forgave her eccentricities. He believed Marilyn simply couldn't go in front of the camera until she was absolutely ready. "She knew she was limited and goddamned well knew what was right for Marilyn," he said. "She wasn't about to do anything else." He also said that although she may not have been the greatest actor or singer or comedienne, she used more of her talent, brought more of her gifts to the screen than anyone he ever knew.
Lemmon wrote that the first sneak preview had a bad reaction with many audience walkouts. Many studio personnel and agents offered advice to Billy Wilder on what scenes to reshoot, add and cut. Lemmon asked Wilder what he was going to do.
Wilder responded: "Why, nothing. This is a very funny movie and I believe in it just as it is. Maybe this is the wrong neighborhood in which to have shown it. At any rate, I don't panic over one preview. It's a hell of a movie." Wilder held the next preview in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, and the audience stood up and cheered. Many years after the film's release, a movie reviewer asked Curtis why his Josephine was so much more feminine than Lemmon's Daphne.
A laughing Curtis explained that he was so scared to be playing a woman (or a man pretending to be one) that his tightly wound body language could be read as demure and shy, traditionally feminine traits, whereas Lemmon, who was completely unbothered, and "ran out of his dressing room screaming like the Queen of the May," kept much more of his masculine body language.
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Chicory, with its stunning blue flowers, is hard to miss along roadsides and in overgrown fields. I always smile when I spot the first ones blooming each summer. Originally native to Europe, this wildflower is now found throughout North America and much of the world.
Like with honeybees though, which are also not native here, this fact is mostly overlooked because of the plant’s usefulness. The roots are commonly used as a caffeine-free coffee substitute and the nutrient packed leaves and buds can be pickled, cooked, or added to salads.
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She was happy to be alive. She didn’t have millions in the bank. She wasn’t at the top of the corporate ladder and still her deepest dreams, though she pursued them, hadn’t yet come true. But still she was happy to be alive.
She had people to love; a roof over her head; she had all the essentials for living; water, gas electricity, food; she could appreciate the flowers blooming, the sun beaming and the skies blessing.
She had good books to read. She spoke to the moon at night. She often had a good sing in the shower. And she lived her life with a touch of her own style.
The world’s mindless noise went quiet at the sight of her relentless joy.
[Image: Summer Moon by German artist and illustrator Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989).]