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Memorable meals and a house full of flowers

All I knew about them was that they were so sour they would pucker your mouth worse than bare vinegar. What a surprise to taste a ripe one. Delicious! Its thin slices are beautiful with a pattern of darker shoots from the center to the outer rim. No wonder the critters love them. My entire knowledge about persimmons was the not enough to classify me as a scientist. For that matter, I’m not too sharp on the habits of possums and raccoons. Possums can play dead if they’re frightened. They collapse on the ground and appear to be scared to death. They have the show perfected, even managing to slow their pulse to fool the observer. The sight of a possum always makes me think of the song. “Is it true what they say about Dixie?” the lyric says. “Do the folks keep eatin’ possum ‘till they can’t eat no more?” I have never eaten possum. Somehow, I think I never will. As for raccoons, while I plan to never find them on my dinner late, I must say I admire their polite habit of washing their food before they eat it. Their dark glasses make them look like rascals, but their table manners are better then many children’s. One thing is hard to keep in mind about the praise for their tidy hygiene — how do they wash up before dinner when they have cleverly taken a lid off a tall garbage can? Some questions have no answers. We now move along from menus to interior design. My living room decor has just been changed. It wasn’t odd enough since last Christmas, when I loved the life-size silver painted deer that sat on the piano. It’s so handsome I couldn’t bring myself to store it in the attic with the other holiday decorations. Guests stare at the fake deer and never notice that I haven’t got around to vacuum cleaning, so you know how sensible it is to skip the attic trip... http://www.stardem.com/blogs/nature_notes/article_0a28cd78-9f93-5538-958e-636e116f310e.html

DM dining stalwart Tony Lemmo forges ahead with new vision

Lemmo said. Stairway to heaven It should come as no surprise that Lemmo entered the restaurant business. “Food is in my DNA,” Lemmo says he tells everyone. His mother, Lou Ann Lemmo, who died in 2014, worked with her sister at Funaro’s Bakery making Italian pastries and Vienna bread. His grandfather had Mama Lacona's Italian Restaurant and his uncles ran Noah’s Ark, two stalwarts of the Des Moines dining community. Even his father Tony Sr.’s parents had Lemmo’s Grill that reigned on the south side from the 1950s to 1970s. “It was inevitable that I would get into this business,” he says. His mother’s side of the fa... http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/dining/2015/12/30/cafe-di-scala-aposto-tony-lemmo-des-moines/77044686/

College Football Playoff Preview: Alabama's Dominant Run Attack vs. A Lucky ...

ESPN’s Strength of Record, a statistical measure of how impressive a team’s wins and losses are. Just ahead of Michigan State are — no surprise — the other playoff contenders: Clemson, Alabama and Oklahoma. TEAM RECORD CHANCE A “GOOD” TEAM MATCHES THIS RECORD AVG. WIN PROBABILITY STRENGTH OF RECORD GAME CONTROL Clemson 13-0 2% 77% 1 1 Alabama 12-1 2 73 2 2 Oklahoma 11-1 7 71 td class="n... http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/college-football-cotton-bowl-alabama-michigan-state/