Dr. Randall Williams, Missouri s public health director, answering questions during a briefing last year.
When the St. Louis County Department of Public Health saw itself listed among the hospitals expected to receive thousands of vaccines last week, it came as a surprise.
No one had told the health department or hospital systems that was the plan, or even what that meant setting off days of confusion over where the department was supposed to get its vaccine doses.
“What it has meant,” said Christopher Ave, spokesman for the county’s department of public health, “is that we have received no doses from the state.”
In the scramble to roll out the largest vaccine program since polio, and with supplies still limited, the state’s vacillating directives are leaving local providers tasked with carrying out the state’s plan unclear as to how to do so.
Romancing the cone: Icecream experts at Tip Top, Ollies and Duck Island on why we love the scoop
30 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
10 minutes to read
NZ Herald
One scoop or two? Fancy flavours or plain vanilla? Kim Knight considers the enduring popularity of icecream in a cone and asks why New Zealand consumes more of the sweet treat than almost any other nation.
Of course I wanted him to kiss me.
The sky was the colour of a high-vis vest and the air tasted like salt. The sun drowned and the waves crashed and we walked until we reached the cliffs that fell into the sea and then we walked all the way back again. We said good night shyly. His name was Maple Walnut.
The Weekend to discuss the colourful history of ice cream in Aotearoa.
He says New Zealanders are big consumers of ice cream, even outeating Americans who are supposedly world champions, however, the statistics are hard to prove because of all the different categories for how ice cream can be eaten.
New Zealand can prove a long history with ice cream because the association, which was founded in 1927, has kept meticulous records as well as publishing journals and magazines. So there was an awful lot of information sitting in their archives in Wellington.
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Newey says the invention of ice cream is contentious. There is a suggestion that in the 12th century Marco Polo brought back a recipe from China (the Chinese used to bring snow down from the mountains to mix it with ingredients to make a form of ice cream). The Italians were early fans, as well as the French.