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Welcome to National Baked Alaska Day!
It’s National Baked Alaska Day! Baked Alaska is a decadent dessert made with ice cream, sponge cake, and toasted meringue. Although the name “Baked Alaska” did not emerge until the 19th century, this dish is part of a long culinary tradition.
The concept of serving cream and cake together dates back to the Renaissance. The cooks of the era were the first to adorn their baked goods with a whipped topping. This laid the foundation for Baked Alaska, but it does not account for two of the dessert’s distinguishing characteristics—temperature and texture.
The Chinese were the first culture to cook pastry over an ice cream filling, which results in a delicious combination of hot and cold components. Credit is also due to the American physicist Benjamin Thompson, who experimented with the heat resistance of beaten egg whites and discovered how to make meringue.
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SU Basketball Roundtable: Syracuse's "Small" Lineup, Malachi Richardson and What Syracuse Must Prove (DO; Staff)
Syracuse (15-8, 5-5 Atlantic Coast) is coming off a three-point win against Georgia Tech on Saturday. The Orange next faces Virginia Tech on Tuesday. With just eight regular-season games remaining, beat writers Sam Blum, Jesse Dougherty and Matt Schneidman discuss three questions surrounding Syracuse basketball.
1. For a portion of the Georgia Tech game, Michael Gbinije, Trevor Cooney, Malachi Richardson, Frank Howard and Tyler Lydon were all on the court at the same time. How effective can that lineup be if Syracuse continues to use it in the future?
Sam Blum: I don’t think that lineup gives Syracuse the best possible lineup. It gets Gbinije out of the point guard role, but it’s still a somewhat undersized lineup. Howard provides a nice spark off the bench, but I can’t envision him getting more than 10-15 minutes per game. Having Dajuan Coleman or Tyler Roberson in the game gives the Orange a better defensive, rebounding and inside scoring team. That doesn’t mean it won’t be employed when it’s the best option, but it won’t typically be the best option.
Jesse Dougherty: It seems that this “small lineup” will be used more as a Band-Aid than to change the pace of games. Syracuse went to it on Saturday after starting center Coleman fouled out, and it was a good counter to Georgia Tech’s commitment to using its strong frontcourt to pound the Orange inside. The lineup pressured the Yellow Jackets’ guards beyond the 3-point line and made it hard for them to enter the ball into the post. That is one way for it be effective defensively, and there really is no question as to whether it can thrive on the offensive end. But its effect on the game can be duplicated by other SU lineups, so I wouldn’t expect it to be a regular look unless Coleman or another big fouls out and Jim Boeheim sees the need to speed up the game.
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Frankie Howard Dazzles as Syracuse Rallies to Defeat Georgia Tech (the juice; Cheng)
With 5:04 left in the first half and Syracuse up by three, Frank Howard stood at the top of the key, casually surveying the Georgia Tech defense. In one motion, he quickly unleashed a no-look sling pass toward DaJuan Coleman, who collected the ball and dropped in the layup.
The crowd cooed momentarily before going berserk.
“That,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said, “is why we recruited him.”
It was one of six nifty passes Howard had on the afternoon, as Syracuse rallied to defeat Georgia Tech 60-57 to keep its tournament hopes alive. After losing its first four conference games, SU is now 5-5.
Howard is part of the reason for Syracuse’s recent resurgence. After being used sparingly to begin the season, Howard has firmly established himself as the team’s backup point guard, having played at least five minutes in the last seven games.
But Saturday’s performance was by far the best of his young career.
» Related: Syracuse 60, Georgia Tech 57
In another sequence, Syracuse got out on the fast break and Michael Gbinije found Howard on the right wing. Without hesitation, Howard touch passed it to a streaking Tyler Roberson who threw down a thunderous jam with 8:35 in the first half.
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Justin Bibbs Playing Hokie D on Sheldon Jeter
Pitt Blows Out Virginia Tech 90-71 (richmond.com; Barber)
There are nights when it looks like Virginia Tech can play with anyone in the ACC. Sunday wasn’t one of them.
Pittsburgh forced the Hokies into 20 turnovers and scored 33 points off those miscues, winning 90-71 and handing Tech its fourth straight loss.
“They shredded us in every way,” Tech basketball coach Buzz Williams said.
The Hokies’ inability to protect the basketball squandered a 28-point performance by junior guard Seth Allen, his third game of 20 points or more in his past four outings.
It was the most points Allen has scored in a game since putting up 32 against Florida State while he was still at Maryland.
He connected on all five of his 3-point attempts.
“It’s not satisfying because we have to win,” Allen said. “Who cares if you score and you lose by 20? It’s not fun. I’d rather not score and win by 20.”
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ACC Race at the Halfway Point (dukebasketballreport.com; Featherston)
The 2016 ACC race is just about at the halfway point – after Sunday’s two games, 65 of 135 regular season games have been played – and after a month of topsy-turvy, the shape of the league is finally starting to take shape.
That doesn’t mean that the surprises are over. Certainly Virginia’s demolition of Louisville in the Yum Center Saturday was totally unexpected. N.C. State’s upset of Miami was a surprise. And the history of the ACC suggests that first-half results don’t always dictate second-half results, especially in this era of backloaded schedules.
My favorite example would be the 1997 ACC regular season. The first half of the season was dominated by preseason favorite Wake Forest (in Tim Duncan’s senior year), battling Maryland and Virginia for league dominance.
But Duke – just 5-3 at the halfway mark – finished strong (7-1) to win the regular season title as Wake, Maryland and especially Virginia faded. The Cavs ended up under .500 in the league. North Carolina – 3-5 at the halfway mark – surged into a second-place tie and turned out to be the league’s strongest team in postseason, winning the ACC Tournament and reaching the Final Four in Dean Smith’s last season.
That season was about as competitive as I’ve ever seen – with at least five games decided by acknowledged officiating snafus. I hope that doesn’t happen down the stretch in the ACC this season – in this era of video review, the kind of errors that plagued ’97 are less likely.
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Brad Paisley Entertains WAr Memorial with Signature Sense of Humor (PS; Poorman)
You don't have to be a fan of country music to enjoy a Brad Paisley show.
On Saturday night, the Grammy Award-winning musician and Grand Ole Opry member brought his "Crushin' It" World Tour to the War Memorial Arena, and, as any great entertainer will do, made a 20-song set and three-song encore feel like a momentary flash of lightning.
In Paisley staples such as "I'm Gonna Miss Her" and "This Is Country Music," the West Virginia native owns up to his own usage of country song clichés. Lyrics like "Well, I love her / But I love to fish" and the forthright "It ain't hip to sing about tractors, trucks, little towns and Mama, yeah, that might be true / But this is country music, and we do" feel refreshingly exaggerative — like well-written satire.
Paisley's sense of humor, in fact, was on full display at Saturday's concert. While his hypnotic technical guitar playing makes him the Hendrix of contemporary country, that's not the most impressive thing about Paisley. His live visuals, projected on a giant screen behind him, are a show in their own right, so much that Saturday felt like a two-for-one concert and a movie. Footage of water-skiing squirrels, the Millennium Falcon, screaming Internet goats and a Brad Paisley mascot riding a wrecking ball in the nude à la Miley Cyrus have the power to elicit cheers from everybody, country fan or not. Sure enough, the venue rumbled with laughter.
Paisley's set also included video of the Syracuse Orange basketball team (during "Country Nation") and dramatic pans of the Syracuse University campus, plus a tailor-made Google Earth view of the War Memorial. At several points during the concert, Paisley borrowed phones from audience members to take selfies and make videos. As per live tradition, he also gave away a guitar and closed the night by placing his cowboy hat on the head of a little girl up front.
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