Nurse Ann Perkins in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation is played by Rashida Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton.
We regenerate taste buds every 10 days. If we didn’t, we’d lose our ability to taste.
The origin of today’s cheesecake likely stems from the 11th century, when Franco-German Jews ate cheese fluden, pastries that over time grew denser with filling and lost their top crust. The Greeks made griddle cakes with cheese curd in the fourth century.
Francis Julius Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance, hoped it would be used by citizens in any country. It originally read, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Hundreds of blondes recently marched through the streets of the Latvian capital, Riga, in a rally called the Go Blonde festival, to lift the spirits of the Baltic state.
This article appears in June 17 • 2011.