Word: buttermilk
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...TIME, April 28). The duckbilled, chicken-bodied coots that the gunmen slaughter in their annual Belchenjagd (Belchen hunt) are worthless as trophies, and dead birds are usually given to the nearest garbage collector. Some hunters claim that a Belchen is edible-if it is marinated for two weeks in buttermilk and roasted with chestnuts...
...Says one who has tried the recipe: "I'd rather drink the buttermilk-and I don't like buttermilk.") Still, more than 7,000 are shot each year. Explains one enthusiastic hunter: "They aren't good for anything, and there's lots of them. So why not shoot them...
...German immigrant towns of Wisconsin, the old men drank cognac and Löwenbräu and listened damp-eyed to old recordings of long-gone Rhineland carillons. In Georgia, the holiday mornings began with bacon, eggs, red-eye gravy, biscuits, grits, deer sausage, fried catfish, cornbread, buttermilk, waffles, French toast, hotcakes and heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed peas (cooked 24 hours), pot roast and cracklin' bread. The men strolled outside with their cigars, their vests unbuttoned, and examined...
...Trumpeter Bob Wallis. 27, gave up a career as a marine engineer to lead his Storyville Jazzmen into the trad boom, dressed in Stetsons and cutaway jackets and looking like the fallout from a Buttermilk Sky. Most trad jazz goes back only 35 years or so. but the Storyville septet has a bestselling version of Mozart's Alia Turca...
That worthy is involved in a plot that would turn almost any sky to buttermilk. Out in the state of Washington, rich, square-shooting Stanley Weston is engaged to Marigold Wade, a rancher's daughter. But Marigold keeps putting off the wedding so she can continue a flirtation with her father's foreman, handsome Kurd Blanding. Along from Idaho comes Marigold's cousin, a young lovely named Lark Burrell, and Stanley soon realizes that he is falling in love with...