In honor of this week’s feature story on Cleveland foodies’ all-time favorite flavors, we bring you the recollections of our ever-ravenous staff. In this installment: Elaine Cicora …
Over the past 13-or-so years I’ve had the chance — both professionally and avocationally — to sink my teeth into the best dishes that Cleveland has to offer. I’ve found plenty to love, and plenty to remember. But the single dish that lingers most poignantly is the Chic of Araby sundae at Boukairs, when that legendary Cleveland ice cream parlor was situated in the Hanna Building, across the street from the theaters of Playhouse Square.
I was barely knee-high to a barstool when my very urbane grandmama first took me there for a post-matinee treat. As I recall, the room was an exotic blend of sherbet colors, dramatic lighting, and great aromas, anchored by a large, centrally located, ornamental fountain that tinkled cheerfully in the background. Equally exotic were the names of the enormous ice-cream sundaes and parfaits — things like “Harem Share’m” and “The Temple of Love” — which were served in broad, fluted, hobnail bowls in jewel-toned colors that towered above the table on elegant glass pedestals.
This article appears in Nov 23-29, 2011.
I am Pirate on several other news places. I have investigated the censorship in the media today and am ready to confront the decision makers with a number of questions about the Ohio media. I am not happy having the entire central Ohio media hub controled by one entity–the Dispatch. It just is not good for theis state especially now to have entire newspapers an extension of a political power or party. The media is not something to be controlled, yet these folks are unabashedly doing just that. Thought control bent with a media is over the top, dudes.
I have stayed under the damage control trolls owned by the republican party. The Dispatch in Columbus Ohio, and the media monopoly which they gained total control of is absolutely shameless, as the far right can often become. JK, our governor, being a bought and paid for republican is way out of bounds as far as media control is concerned. The PD is kahootsing some way with the right wing grasp upon the media. The media is not supposed to be the way it has become and we all know that, but it didn’t have to whiplash back to 1930 Germany ideas of media manipulation for political power and control. You see, power and control are just another form of greed. Greed always seeks the same things: to get more and make sure it stays where the greedy want it to stay..within the billion-dollar-club. And boy when I say club, I mean they will use it to club down anything they don’t agree with. They have become insane with power and greed and now that they see that everyone is wise to them they are starting to feel the taste of their own poison swish around their mouths.
And to think that I lived long enough to see another enormous shift in the universe. A shift is a miracle made common and natural. It was always there and always will be so long as it is needed. When man harnessed energy and saw the power of light, all things electric and electronic where born. Keep in mind folks that there are no inventors of electricity or energy and the conversion of energy. This is a fact. Insanity creeps in when man made laws and bias based logic begins to erode truth.
So here I sit in 2011, a month until Christmas. 2012 has been advertised by many as being the end of the world. As though the world has a beginning or an end. We assume time and question infinity, eternity. I will tell you some things which will get you locked up still even after two thousand years of publication and documentation. All we need to do is believe that there was a guy who said he was the son of God and said that Love and forgiveness and eternity were real, and fear and revenge and hate, all illusions of time. On his last lesson he said it as had been the plan all along–He had to go through some torture and terrible teasings and then ‘Forgive Them, Father’ and head back to eternity, and run this salvation and saving thing and get a bunch more to tell others that forgiveness will set them free while fear and revenge will imprison. Simple as all truth must be.
Did you ever see the saying: The beatings will continue until moral improves..? Like so many low human characteristics it is this very tactic which fills our own and cherished corporate America, and the great corporate cultures which flurish best in today’s brave new world of being controlled by the club of billion dollar organizations and families.and things which it controls..Things like politics and law and religion and media. And now this culture wants to control the social media and the very thoughts which become public, or at least run through their waves. Thought control to the max happening right here and now in Ohio and the world. Thought we were different here? Me too. Do we think more today as a result of our communication devices and internet instant data, instant answers googled first before any other definitions and contemplations. The study of thinking as studied by the early philosophers is making a come-back. Symbolic logic and the deductions which can follow from its’ ancient use are incredable and miraculous.