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8 Food Five Flavor Pound Cake Orlando Advocate | Jul 6 - 12, <strong>2018</strong> Health The Grades Are In: Most Americans Score ‘F’ On Fat IQ Test By Frank Butler “Southern five flavor pound cake recipe! Made from scratch and full of flavor with a moist, fluffy crumb!” Total time 1 hour 20 mins Ingredients 1 cup unsalted butter, softened ½ cup butter-flavored shortening 3 cups granulated sugar 5 eggs, room temperature 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt ½ cup half n half ½ cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon butter extract ½ teaspoon rum extract (Can add more if you really like rum flavor) 1 teaspoon lemon extract 1 teaspoon coconut extract 5 FLAVOR GLAZE ½ cup powdered sugar, sifted ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon butter extract ½ teaspoon rum extract ½ teaspoon lemon extract ½ teaspoon coconut extract ½ teaspoon milk (may need more) Instructions Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside. Preheat oven to 325 F. In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar. Add in eggs, one at a time, being sure to mix thoroughly after each egg. Set aside. In a medium-sized bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients while alternating with the half n half and buttermilk. (Batter should be fluffy when done mixing) Mix in extracts. Spoon batter evenly into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cake cool until pan is warm to the touch. Remove cake from pan and allow to finish cooling on cooling rack. When cake is completely cooled, drizzle on the glaze if using. To make the glaze, combine powdered sugar, extract and ½ teaspoon of milk. New study from MDVIP and Ipsos reveals startling gaps in Americans’ dietary and weight loss knowledge; study points to physician intervention as missing link in obesity management Boca Raton, FL — While 85 percent of Americans say they know how to eat right, more than half flunked a basic quiz on dietary facts and weight loss. The MDVIP Fat IQ Survey, conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, reveals contradictory behaviors relating to obesity and weight management and explores deeper motivations that may stimulate lifestyle changes and offer Americans a higher probability of losing weight successfully. America’s Fat IQ Report Card Grade on Fat IQ Quiz A Grade (90%+)
9 Faith Orlando Advocate |July 6 - 12, <strong>2018</strong> IF RUTH CAME TO AMERICA by Rabbi Arthur Waskow When and where we live, when the superwealthy have robbed the merely wealthy, when the middling classes have lost their savings and the poor their homes, when the issue of immigration is hot and the lives of immigrants are threatened — the issues of poverty and wealth, of immigration and the homeborn, mean a great deal. And that is what Ruth is about. In the biblical story, Ruth was a foreigner from the nation of Moab, which was despised by all patriotic and God-fearing Israelites. Yet when she came to Israel as a widow, companion to her widowed mother-in-law, Naomi, she was welcomed onto the fields of Boaz, where she gleaned what the regular harvesters had left behind. Boaz made sure that even this despised foreigner had a decent job at decent pay. When she went one night to the barn where the barley crop was being threshed, he spent the night with her –and decided to marry her. But if Ruth came to America today, what would happen? Would she be admitted at the border? Or would she be detained for months without a lawyer, ripped from Naomi’s arms while Naomi’s protest brought her too under suspicion — detained because she was, after all, a Canaanite who spoke some variety of Arabic, possibly a terrorist, for sure an idolator? Would she be deported as merely an “economic refugee,” not a worthy candidate for asylum? Would she have to show a “green card” before she could get a job gleaning at any farm, restaurant, or hospital? Would she be sent to “workfare” with no protections for her dignity, her freedom, or her health? When she boldly “uncovers the feet” of Boaz during the night they spend together on the threshing floor, has she violated the “family values” that some religious folk now proclaim? Or has she affirmed that love engages the body as well as the heart, the mind, and the spirit, and that sometimes a loving body comes before a wedding? Today in America, some of us are outcasts like Ruth; some are prosperous, like Boaz. He affirmed that in a decent society, everyone was entitled to decent work for a decent income. Everyone — yes, everyone! Even, or especially, a despised immigrant from a despised nation. Everyone — not just a certain percentage of the people. In ancient Israel, everyone had the right simply to walk onto a field and begin to work, begin to use the means of production of that era. And then to eat what they had gathered. And Boaz could not order his regular workers to be economically “efficient.” They could not harvest everything — not what grew in the corners of the field, not what they missed on the first go-round. Social compassion was more important than efficiency. No downsizing allowed. Although Boaz was generous-hearted, Ruth’s right to glean did not depend upon his generosity. It was the law. Ruth was entitled not only to a job, but to respect. No name-calling, no sexual harassment. And she, as well as Boaz, was entitled to Shabbat: time off for rest, reflection, celebration, love. She was entitled to “be” — as well as to “do.” Because Ruth the outcast and Boaz the solid citizen got together, they could become the ancestors of King David. According to both Jewish and Christian legend, they could thus help bring Messiah into the world — help bring the days of peace and justice. What do we learn from their story today? In America today, many of us live in the place of Boaz. Many others live in the place of Ruth. Our society has dismantled many of the legal commitments to the poor that ancient Israelite society affirmed. What are our own religious obligations? What are our obligations — those of us who still have jobs, who have not lost our retirement funds to the machinations of the banks, or even those who have! What are our obligations to those who are living in cardboard boxes on the streets or parks of our cities? What are our obligations to those who have been evicted from their homes, to those who have no jobs? Are we obligated only to toss a dollar bill or two into the empty hats of the homeless? Or are we obligated to write new laws for our own country like the ancient laws that protected Ruth? Are we obligated to create new communities — local credit unions instead of global banks, food coops and neighborhood clinics, groups of caring people who turn an involuntary “furlough” from their jobs into time to learn together, sing together, plan together to make new places of shared work? Are we obligated to create a society that rubs away the barriers between the rich and poor, between those who speak one language from those who speak another? What can we do — what must we do — to help bring on the days of peace and justice?
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