Slaw Burger; "Big" Apple and Jump Jim Crow

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SLAW BURGER

   Columbia and NYU were closed today, but Columbia will have limited hours
tomorrow.  Both resume normal hours starting Tuesday.
   I bought the January-February 2003 SAVEUR, Special Issue: The Saveur 100:
Our favorite foods, restaurants, recipes, people, place and things.  It's
certainly a quirky listing.
   Pg. 76:  The two-volume AMERICAN HERITAGE COOKBOOK AND ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF AMERICAN EATING & DRINKING (1964).  Only about 40 years old now.  I wonder
what it has on panini sandwiches and wraps and smoothies and cappuccino.
   Pg. 71:  The ESQUIRE DRINK BOOK (1956).  Yes, these are good books, or
rather were good books.  A strange list for 2003, to be sure.
   Pg. 78:  STEAK 'N SHAKE.  This made a top 100 food list?
   Pg. 73:  R. O.'S SLAW.  Since 1946, also served in a "slaw burger."  The
web site is www.rosbbq.com.  It's worthy of inclusion in the OXFORD
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FOOD & DRINK sandwich section.  From Gastonia, North
Carolina.
   Pg. 16 says that January 19th is National Popcorn Day.  HOW COULD I
FORGET??

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"BIG" APPLE AND JUMP JIM CROW

   This is just psycho nuts crazy.  It might even be racist.
   The "apple" in "Big Apple" means "apple," and not two words from the Irish
language.  I should have added that there's not a shred of evidence on the
British & Irish Women's database, either.  (I had found "Irish stew" there.)
 The Making of American (Cornell) database, for example, mentions "Irish"
32,666 times and "Gaelic" 1,172 times.  Again, we have _no_ Irish language
"Big Apple" citation evidence.  Maybe there's a reason why every database and
every Irish scholar misses such "Big Apple" evidence?
   To add "Jim Crow" to this and to assert that track writer John J. Fitz
Gerald was borrowing or making up a "Jim Crow"-type story is just insane.
Fitz Gerald mentioned the New Orleans "Big Apple" story twice--in wintertime,
when he was covering New Orleans racing and describing remembered events.
Trainer Jake Byer was mentioned by name, and he is not fictional.  An
Irishman got "the Big Apple" from an African-American.  Please accept this.
   The first thing I tried to do--eleven years ago now--was to find and honor
the African American.  Is he still alive?  Did he have children who remember
the story?  I asked the NEW YORK TIMES to publish his words.  I asked the NEW
ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE to publish his words.  Neither would respond or ever
publish his words.
   It's MLK, Jr. day, and I'm begging still.