Speaking of 1812! Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was also born today, in 1840.
Today's so-called exotic dish suggestion from the 365 Foreign Dishes, published in 1908, is what they call Norwegian Fruit Pudding (it includes raspberries, red currants, cinnamon, almonds, citron, and whipped cream).
A favorite movie: Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter. One of these days we need to have a Shrek marathon with the 4 movies and TV specials -- but we still need to find some 3-D Shrek movie I saw once in a store, though I don't see that on the official site -- and the TV special Scared Shrekless available on Netflix -- we have Shrek the Halls...
from www.shrek.com , the official site, which has wallpapers etc! :
