Mid-Week Libation: Great Expectations
Our Pre-Valentine's Day downtempo playlist, Afro-Brazilian painter Elian Almeida, Black film pioneer Tressie Souders, a high protein anti-inflammatory soup & Suzy Eddie Izzard does Charles Dickens!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
[Editor’s Note: No audio segment from us this week. For a great audio segment, check out the audio sample below of Suzy Eddie Izzard reading Charles Dickens!]
Recipe of the Week: Aush Reshteh (Plant-Based High Protein Anti-Inflammatory Soup)
R&R’s Playlist of the Week: Don’t Disturb This Love
The Art of Elian Almeida
Celebrating the First Black Woman to Direct a Film: Tressie Souders (February 7, 1897 – January 17, 1995)
Tressie Souders (via Women Film Pioneers Project)
Tressie Souders: 25 Facts About The First Black Female to Direct a Feature Film (via Tellers Untold)
Tressie Souders and Her “Lack of Employment Opportunities” by Kathy Copeland Padden (via Medium)
And for more Black film history, check out Ryan Elston’s recent article:
Happy Birthday to Suzy Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962) & Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870)
Suzy Eddie Izzard also recorded an audiobook of Great Expectations!
Listen to a sample of Suzy Eddie Izzard reading Charles Dickens here:
Interesting Artists Born Today: February 7th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Henry Fuseli, Giosuè Argenti, Alfred-Philibert Aldrophe, José Jiménez Aranda, Bernard Maybeck, Xavier Martínez, Ethel Carrick, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Rita Mount, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Wilhelm Freddie, Elsa Thiemann, Carybé, Russell Drysdale, Mladen Veža, Martha Holmes, Berta Rosenbaum Golahny, Hajime Katō, Adela Akers, Santos Chavez, Jere Osgood and Alberta Nofchissey Mason!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Thomas More, Charles Dickens, Ricardo Palma, James Murray, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sinclair Lewis, Hazel Hall, David Ignatow, Eric Foner, Witi Ihimaera, Karen Joy Fowler, Ashok Banker, Sam J. Miller and Lebogang Mashile!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Virginia Gabriel, Ricardo Castro, Wilbur Sweatman, Eubie Blake, Nicanor Abelardo, Dock Boggs, Milt Holland, Wilma Lee Cooper, Leon Bibb, Marius Constant, Juliette Gréco, King Curtis, Earl King, Malando Gassama, Pepeu Gomes, Eva Ayllón, Steve Bronski, Garth Brooks, Chris Minh Doky, Nujabes and J Dilla!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Anita Stewart, Tressie Souders, Takako Irie, Hattie Jacques, Armando Robles Godoy, Lalo Ríos, Héctor Babenco, Pete Postlethwaite, Miguel Ferrer, Emo Philips, James Spader, Suzy Eddie Izzard, Chris Rock and Dee Rees!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Suzy Eddie Izzard (born February 7, 1962)
I love that you’re including more ethnic and plant-based recipes. I know that’s because you’re eating them, but it adds an interesting change to the recipes you have offered. Acceptez le changement!
(I looked that up on Google Translate 😊)