Sports Fact & Book Rec of the Day 3/9/2011

American swimmer Michael Phelps, who won six gold and two bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics and finally realized his dream of eclipsing Mark Spitz's famous record of seven gold medals in one Olympics by capturing eight golds at the Beijing Games in 2008: "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

Birthdays:
Jackie Jensen b. 1927
Bert Campaneris b. 1942
Phil Housley b. 1964
Benito Santiago b. 1965
Aaron Boone b. 1973

Packers Fact:
The Packers fact for today is wrong so I am not posting it!

ON IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED,
GUESS, GUESS AGAIN

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Are You Smarter Than a 10-Year-Old? host: Along with two fishes, how many loaves of bread did Jesus use to feed the five thousand?

Contestant: When this question first came up, I thought four, but now I think it may have been six. it could have been eight, but now fourteen seems to ring a bell.

“I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves—that we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”

—GEORGE BERKELEY, Irish bishop and philosopher

KITCHEN WISDOM

Being the skillful chef that she is, Lillian knows that you don’t just give up on a hollandaise sauce that’s separated nor on people who are a little broken. On Mondays, when the restaurant is closed, Lillian brings the lonely, the widowed, the confused and flawed for cooking classes and life lessons. Just as her troubled mother could be cheered long ago by a lovingly prepared meal from Lillian, the souls under her guidance take the raw ingredients of their grief, resentment, shyness, and insecurity and transform them into delicious, artistic creations.

THE SCHOOL OF ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS, by Erica Bauermeister (Putnam, 2009)