Sunday, August 09, 2009

métier \met-YAY; MET-yay\ , noun:

1. An occupation; a profession.
2. An area in which one excels; an occupation for which one is especially well suited.

Métier is from the French, ultimately from Latin ministerium, "service, ministry, employment," fromminister, "a servant, a subordinate."

find cuisine

• To create a fine meal using random items around the kitchen . This includes never before used spices and the culmination of three different pasta noodles and a can of diced tomates thus creating the pasta stew mess.

Stephanie: "What you cooking there?"

Nadine: "Some randomness with pasta. Kind of like a pasta stew. But messier."
Stephanie: "I love your find cuisine, Nadine."

Trivia

Which popular Billy Joel song was inspired by a bad date with jet-set celebrity Bianca Jagger?

• Big Shot.

Today in history

• Sistine Chapel: the private chapel of the popes was consecrated and its first mass was celebrated (1483)
• Nagasaki: atom bomb called the Fat Man, dropped by theBockscar, devastated a second Japanese city (1945)
• Singapore: seceded from and became independent of Malaysia(1965)

Today's Birthdays:

• Jean Piaget (1896-1980): specialist in developmental psychology
• P.L. Travers (1899-1996): author, Mary Poppins; plus, writersIzaak Walton (1593-1683), John Dryden (1631 [O.S.]-1700),Gaston Paris (1839-1903) and Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
• Rod Laver (71): tennis great; athletes Ralph Houk (90), Bob Cousy (81), Ken Norton (66), Brett Hull (45), Deion Sanders (42) and Chamique Holdsclaw (32) were also born on this date
• Eric Bana (41): Henry DeTamble in the upcoming film, The Time Traveler's Wife; also, actors Robert Shaw (1927-1978), Sam Elliott (65), Melanie Griffith (52), Amanda Bearse (51), Whitney Houston (46), Gillian Anderson (41), Jessica Capshaw (33) and Audrey Tatou (31)