05/10/21: Deep-dish Pizza and the Space Race
TLDR
Update: Missing the bookstore
E/C/B: Thinking about making deep-dish pizza
Watching: For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
End Notes: You can contact me at jadettman@gmail.com
THE UPDATE
Facebork reminded me this week that one year ago was the last day of the Turtle Creek Bookstore and it made me a little sad. I really don’t like living in a city without a bookstore (and I think you all know how I feel about Amazon) and I’m wondering how my co-workers and regular customers are weathering these trying times. To be honest, I feel disconnected from the community and I know a lot of that is sheltering in place for a year but, also, it’s not seeing those regular customers and having a good gossip. I used to get a lot of my community news from conversations with other people in the community and now that’s just gone. Maybe by the end of the year I’ll feel comfortable sitting in Bagels and More and chatting with folks. It still feels a ways off.
EATING / COOKING / BAKING
I haven’t been making anything new lately, mostly because a lot of my baking is desserts and I prefer to make those when I’m feeding the majority of it to other people. And cooking lately has been usual routine: salad, pasta, soup, etc.
I made calzones a few weeks back as a branch out from my usual homemade pizza and that was a nice change. Now I’m thinking about trying to replicate the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza that we used to get when we were college students in Iowa City. The place we used to go was called Sam’s Pizza and their deep-dish was easily two or three inches deep. It was so good and one slice was enough (if not too much) for most folks. So, yeah, I think that’s going to be my cooking project for this summer.
WATCHING
We’ve been watching For All Mankind. It’s on Apple TV+ (which, I know, another streaming service, ugh) and, because our free trial period is set to expire in a few weeks, we’ve been checking out what’s there (especially after discovering the delightful Ted Lasso).
For All Mankind is really good, y’all! The premise is: what if the Soviets made it to the Moon first and America doubled-down on the space-race. Also, since one of the first cosmonauts on the Moon is a woman, NASA starts training women astronauts. There is a lot of drama, historical politics, and, of course, space. Once it gets going, it’s really good. Ronald D. Moore, of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, is involved in the show and I think it shows.
If you’re going to check it out, stick with it through episodes 3 and 4 before deciding it’s not for you. We gave it a go last year and the first couple episodes just did not grab me. Then I read a review that said it really picked up with the addition of the women astronauts in the third episode and, boy, they were not wrong. We just finished the first season and I’m looking forward to what the second brings us.
https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7
END NOTES
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