If you’re just joining us, recently The Five-Year-Old asked me how Americans used to make ketchup in those bleak days before Henry Heinz brought his ketchup to market in 1876. Yesterday we found and translated an old-timey recipe. Today we’re cooking it.
One of the reasons I love eating at local diners is that they tend to serve ketchup in glass bottles. The Five-Year-Old, though, was a bit surprised to learn that squeeze-and-squirt hasn’t always been fundamental to the ketchup experience. “Is this an old-timey bottle, Mommyo?” “Yep.” The Five-Year-Old, warily eying the red glob on her plate: “How do they make old-timey ketchup, Mommyo?” I didn’t know, but making old-timey ketchup sure sounded like a lot of fun.
The Five-Year-Old: “Mommyo, what’s that bench about?” Mommyo: “It was given in honor of a lady who died.” The Five-Year-Old: “What’s her name?” Mommyo: “Nancy.” The…
On our weekly news roundup, we learn about the 6 most amazing jellyfish in the sea, visit The Beachchair Scientist, and are astounded by a picture of a boy riding a shark.
This week, Daddyo read The Five-Year-Old John D. Fitzgerald’s The Great Brain.
Lately, The Five-Year-Old has been saving some of her best questions for the bedtime fending-off-sleep process. These questions nearly all have to do with the naming of things. “Why are monarchs called ‘monarchs’?” “Why are beetles called ‘beetles’?” And today’s question: “Why is it called ‘punctuation’?”
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The Five-Year-Old, on being denied a third episode of Wild Kratts: “Mommyo, if you don’t let me have any more tv today, I’ll read thirty books…
LA bans single use plastic bags, the April Lyrid meteor shower seen from the International Space Station, and other news of the week.
This week, my daughter reads The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
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