Florence Petty (1 December 1870 – 18 November 1948) was a Scottish
social worker, cookery writer and broadcaster. During the 1900s she
undertook social work in the deprived area of Somers Town in North
London, demonstrating for working-class women how to cook inexpensive
and nutritious foods. Much of the instruction was done in their homes.
She published cookery-related works aimed at those also involved in
social work, and a cookery book and pamphlet aimed at the public. From
1914 until the mid-1940s she toured Britain giving lecture-
demonstrations of cost-efficient and nutritious ways to cook, including
dealing with food shortages during the First World War. In the late
1920s and early 1930s, she was a BBC broadcaster on food and budgeting.
Petty worked until she was in her seventies. She is considered to be a
pioneer of social work innovations. Her approach to teaching the use of
cheap nutritious food was a precursor to the method adopted by the
Ministry of Food during the Second World War.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Petty>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1988:
Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying thirty schoolchildren
and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later
given an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and ransom for the release of the
hostages.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Ordzhonikidze_bus_hijacking>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rime:
1. (transitive)
2. To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or
(loosely) hoar frost.
3. (figurative) To cover (something) with a thin coating or film; to
coat.
4. (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become
covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.
5. Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white
deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
6. (figurative)
7. A film or slimy coating.
8. White hair as an indication of old age.
9. (meteorology)
10. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to
a cold surface.
11. A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
12. (Britain, regional) A cold fog or mist. [...]
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