Market Notes August 26th, 2021
As the summer season comes to an end and the dog days prevail, we thought a little summer levity would lighten up the remaining days. What a better way to do that than with a little Gershwin. Enjoy!SUMMERTIME
(Gershwin/Heyward)
Summertime, and the west coast in burning
The trees are all falling, and the flames rising high
The electric is out, all the generators are churning
So hush, little baby, don’t you ask why
One of these days, the rivers’ gonna stop flooding
The rain will stop pounding, from a thunderous sky
But until then, we will have to keep running
So hush, little baby, don’t you ask why
Summertime, and the truck costs keep rising
They go up every week, they are getting too high
The unloading is long, and the brokers are crying
So hush, little baby, don’t you ask why
One of these days, Covid will end up dying
The masks will come off, relief with a sigh
But until then, we just have to keep trying
To take care of ourselves, ignore those who are lying
So hush, little baby, we’ll all get by
NEW PRODUCE QUIZ – WHO AM I ???
A native of southeastern China, I am also very common in Vietnam and central Asia. My Chinese name means eight points. Late in the sixteenth century, Europeans actually used me widely as bait in mousetraps, leading to my Latin name “Illicium,” meaning lure or bait. I grow on an evergreen tree of the magnolia family and my pretty reddish-brown woody fruit is picked prior to ripening, then sun-dried. Each of my fruits’ points contains an oval seed with longitudinal ridges. Chewing my seeds freshens your breath with a licorice-like taste. In addition to being used in oriental cuisine, I flavor liqueurs, chewing gum, and confections. I’m very familiar in a famous spice mixture — ground-up with four other spices, specifically foggara, cinnamon or cassia, fennel seeds and cloves, along with cardamom, dried ginger or licorice root — where my pungent, sweet flavor dominates the powder. I am said to be diuretic, carminative, stomachic, antispasmodic, digestive, and expectorant, and a stimulant, so use me to tone up the heart, stimulate digestion, combat flatulence, and soothe coughs and asthma. My essential oil contains anethole, a substance also found in fennel (whose seeds taste similar to mine). Thousands of years old, I am, perhaps best recognized for my shape, but there’s never been a sidewalk ceremony for meAnswer to last weeks quiz….PEAS…Congrats to all winners!
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