Jerome "Jerry" Garcia was a cofounder of the psychedelic band The
Grateful Dead . His distinctive improvisational
guitar playing earned
him the 13th rank in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists
of All Time." Jerry played with The Grateful Dead for
their entire three-decade career from 1965 to 1995.
Jerry is "the most recorded guitarist in history. With more
than 2,200 Grateful Dead concerts, and 1,000 Jerry Garcia Band concerts(his
prior band befor founding the Dea)) captured on tape — as well as numerous studio sessions — there are about
15,000 hours of his guitar work preserved for the ages." Jerry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead in 1994.
The Grateful Dead has a unique and devoted
fan base known The Deadheads who began traveling in the 1970s to see the
band in as many shows or festival venues as they could. With large numbers
of people thus attending strings of shows, a community developed. Deadheads
developed their own idiom, slang and touchstones. The Grateful Dead had a
unique impact on a generation of diverse political leaders and commentators
have claimed to be deadheads or have had media reported on them saying they
are deadheads, including Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Al
and Tipper Gore, Al Franken, Tucker Carlson, and Ann Coulter.
In 1987, ice cream manufacturers Ben & Jerry's came out with Cherry Garcia,
which is named after the guitarist and consists of "cherry ice cream with
cherries and fudge flakes". For a month after Jerry's death, the ice cream
was made with black cherries as a way of mourning. While some Cherry Garcia
might be a great way of celebrating his birthday, we recommend making some
Pan
de Muertos (Bread of the Dead)
a traditional; Mexican bread made during the weeks leading up to the Día
de los Muertos, (Day of the Dead) celebrated on November 1 and 2.
Pan
de Muertos is often decorated
with bone-shaped dough, and in some regions of Mexico is eaten on Día de
los Muertos, at the gravesite or altar of the deceased. Unfortunately,
that isn't possible for Jerry since he was cremated and his ashes were
sprinkled in the river Ganges in India. We are looking forward to the
announced plans to turn Robert Greenfield's Dark Star: An Oral Biography
on Jerry Garcia into a big-screen biopic to watch while we devour some
of this tasty orange-flavored bread.
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Pan
de Muertos
(Bread of the Dead)
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Ingredients
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1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup warm water (110º F)
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 pk active dry yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1 TB anise seed
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1/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp orange zest
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
1 TB orange zest
2 tsp white sugar
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Instructions
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- In a large mixing bowl, combine 1&1/2 cups
of flour, yeast, salt, anise seed and sugar. Mix thoroughly.
- In a small pan, heat the milk, water and
butter nearly to a boil.
- Stir the warm liquid into the dry mixture
until thoroughly blended.
- Mix in the eggs and 2 TB orange zest and
add remaining flour gradually as needed until the dough is soft and not
tacky. Knead the dough on a floured board about ten minutes.
- Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl
in a warm environment. Cover it to prevent drying. The
dough should rise for about 1&1/2 hours until it has doubled in size.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and press
it into a circular shape, adding additional molded or sculpted shapes of
bones, or a skull, to the top. Let the sculpted bread rise for an
additional hour.
Preheat the oven to 350 º F. Bake for 40 minutes, until golden
brown.
- While bread is baking, Make glaze by
mixing 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup fresh orange juice, and 1/4 cup white sugar
in a small pan. Bring to a boil for three minutes stirring constantly.
- Remove bread from oven. Add glaze while
bread is still warm. Sprinkle lightly with confectioner's sugar (topped
with colored sugar sprinkled on to make a design if preferred).
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