Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 7/21/2010

Explaining his self-effacing nature, Phillies All-Star second baseman Chase Utley recalled: "My dad always told me you don't need to tell people how good you are. If that's the case, people will tell you."

Birthdays:
Gene Littler b. 1930
Gene Fullmer b. 1931
Dave Henderson b. 1958
David Carr b. 1979
C.C. Sabathia b. 1980

Packers Fact:
Curly Lambeau led the Packers first NFL (then called the APFA) team in scoring in 1921. The founder and coach also scored a team-best 28 points that season.

http://www.gemueseorchester.org/
Jazz Salad
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra performs its music solely on fresh vegetables that they turn into musical instruments for each performance, including pepper trumpets, carrot recorders, and leek violins. At this site you can listen to samples of their music, see where they will be performing next, and watch a video that includes preparations that begin at the local produce market.

SNOW, RED, AND OTHER COLORS

Winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature and a score of international literary awards, novelist Orhan Pamuk (Istanbul; Snow) enjoys the essay form and loves writing, the life of a writer, and his life. It all shows in these masterful pieces on his readings, reminiscences, and ruminations from 30 years in the profession. In the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Richard Eder writes, “A voice, part playful and part deadly, whose refracted reality a real nightingale might envy.”

OTHER COLORS: ESSAYS AND A STORY, by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely (Knopf, 2007)

GOUDEN CAROLUS

Brouwerij Het Anker, Mechelen, Belgium

Gouden Carolus’s complex bouquet betrays dark malt, fruit, and nuts—cherries, dried currants, raisins, prunes, dates, and almonds. Warming alcohol, to the tune of 7.5%/vol., balances this sweet brew, though it comes off almost like a dark cherry liqueur. Nothing better on a snowy winter evening.

BEER FACT

Gouden Carolus is another one of the beers named after beer lover and Holy Roman Emperor Charles Quint: It means “Cuvée of the Emperor.”