Dating back to the late 1960s at the San Diego–Tijuana border, an icon
was born: Chango, the plaster-of-Paris surf monkey. Hunched over a round-nose
surfboard and donning a striped one-piece bathing suit, the 12-inch plaster
primate dominated border vendor booths in the 1970s and ’80s.
Instead of insulting surfers with its goofy expression and stance (a la the Cardiff Kook), Chango — slang for “monkey” — served as a kitschy keepsake for surfers returning from trips to Baja. Following suit, tourists visiting Tijuana for shopping, eating and reveling began snatching up so many surf monkeys that they earned the affectionate title “Southern California’s garden gnome.”
But every great wave must come to an end, and by the new millennium, Chango got barreled.We specialize in howo concrete mixer,
After decades of ruling the waves at borderline shops, the surf monkey’s popularity began to diminish with the introduction of more contemporary plaster-of-Paris pieces like Bart Simpson and Dora the Explorer. Eventually, production of the statue had diminished, molds were lost, and Chango’s future remained uncertain until a local surfer and longtime Baja traveler,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, Beth Slevcove,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. got involved.
“When I first saw Chango, I thought he was ugly,” says Slevcove, a 43-year-old mother of two. “By the second time, I fell in love. It was love at second sight.”
Visiting Baja for more than 25 years, Slevcove bargained and bought several monkeys per trip for friends and family,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. but as the years went by, they became harder to find — bordering on extinction. With “3-year-old Spanish,” Beth embarked on a scavenger hunt in 2007, which led her “off the beaten path” to a Tijuana factory that housed one of the few remaining surf monkey molds. Once she convinced the factory owner she wasn’t a “crazy tourist,” Slevcove got the mold repaired and began importing surf monkeys to San Diego in bulk.
By 2009, the Surf Monkey Fellowship was born and remains the only U.S. importer of the eight-toed plaster-of-Paris surf legend. In addition to online orders and a place at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, Chango (and Surf Monkey Fellowship T-shirts) can be found at local surf shops,Installers and distributors of solar panel, including Surf Diva, Bird’s Surf Shed, OB Surf & Skate and Hansen’s.
Dating back to the late 1960s at the San Diego–Tijuana border, an icon was born: Chango, the plaster-of-Paris surf monkey. Hunched over a round-nose surfboard and donning a striped one-piece bathing suit, the 12-inch plaster primate dominated border vendor booths in the 1970s and ’80s.
Instead of insulting surfers with its goofy expression and stance (a la the Cardiff Kook), Chango — slang for “monkey” — served as a kitschy keepsake for surfers returning from trips to Baja. Following suit, tourists visiting Tijuana for shopping, eating and reveling began snatching up so many surf monkeys that they earned the affectionate title “Southern California’s garden gnome.”
But every great wave must come to an end, and by the new millennium, Chango got barreled.
After decades of ruling the waves at borderline shops, the surf monkey’s popularity began to diminish with the introduction of more contemporary plaster-of-Paris pieces like Bart Simpson and Dora the Explorer. Eventually, production of the statue had diminished, molds were lost, and Chango’s future remained uncertain until a local surfer and longtime Baja traveler, Beth Slevcove, got involved.
“When I first saw Chango, I thought he was ugly,” says Slevcove, a 43-year-old mother of two. “By the second time, I fell in love. It was love at second sight.”
Visiting Baja for more than 25 years, Slevcove bargained and bought several monkeys per trip for friends and family, but as the years went by, they became harder to find — bordering on extinction. With “3-year-old Spanish,” Beth embarked on a scavenger hunt in 2007, which led her “off the beaten path” to a Tijuana factory that housed one of the few remaining surf monkey molds. Once she convinced the factory owner she wasn’t a “crazy tourist,” Slevcove got the mold repaired and began importing surf monkeys to San Diego in bulk.
By 2009, the Surf Monkey Fellowship was born and remains the only U.S. importer of the eight-toed plaster-of-Paris surf legend. In addition to online orders and a place at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, Chango (and Surf Monkey Fellowship T-shirts) can be found at local surf shops, including Surf Diva, Bird’s Surf Shed, OB Surf & Skate and Hansen’s.
The hummingbird, also known as the doctor-bird, is the Jamaican national bird. This particular type of hummingbird lives only in Jamaica. Foodtimeline.org states a recipe for doctor-bird cake appeared in the Jamaican Daily Gleaner in March 1969.
Southern Living magazine is generally credited with the first reference to Hummingbird Cake. It published the recipe, submitted by Mrs. L.H. Wiggins of Greensboro, N.C., in its February 1978 issue.
As for the name, the hummingbird is drawn to intensely sweet flowers and syrups. Incredibly, they are able to assess the amount of sugar in the nectar they eat. They reject flower types that produce nectar less than 12 percent sugar and prefer those whose sugar content is around 25 percent.
One theory is that since this cake is sweet, and so delicious, it makes you hum with happiness when you’re eating it. Also, Foodtimeline.org notes that maybe it was named after the way the cake is eaten quickly, similar to the eating pattern of those tiny energetic fliers.
I buy that. It is a sweet cake, and one that doesn’t stay around long, especially if you have a hot cup of coffee sitting beside it.
Regardless, it’s my recipe for this week. It’s perfect for those after Thanksgiving “eat till I bust” blues, and it would make a wonderful Christmas dinner dessert.
While I was perusing information about hummingbird cake, I came across other interesting facts about the history of cakes. Here are a few:
One article stated cake dates back to ancient times, although it was very different from what we eat today.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the English word “cake” back to the 13th century. It’s a derivation of “kaka,” an Old Norse word. Medieval European bakers often made fruitcakes and gingerbread.
According to food historians, the precursors of modern cakes (the round ones) were first baked in Europe sometime in the mid-17th century due to advances in technology for ovens, the manufacturing of food molds and the discovery of refined sugar. At that time, cake hoops, round molds for shaping cakes that were placed on flat baking trays, were used. They could be made of metal, wood or paper.
It was not until the middle of the 19th century that cake, as we know it today, made with extra-refined white flour and baking powder instead of yeast, popped up. Wouldn’t our great-grandmothers have just had a heyday with Duncan-Hines or Betty Crocker?
Instead of insulting surfers with its goofy expression and stance (a la the Cardiff Kook), Chango — slang for “monkey” — served as a kitschy keepsake for surfers returning from trips to Baja. Following suit, tourists visiting Tijuana for shopping, eating and reveling began snatching up so many surf monkeys that they earned the affectionate title “Southern California’s garden gnome.”
But every great wave must come to an end, and by the new millennium, Chango got barreled.We specialize in howo concrete mixer,
After decades of ruling the waves at borderline shops, the surf monkey’s popularity began to diminish with the introduction of more contemporary plaster-of-Paris pieces like Bart Simpson and Dora the Explorer. Eventually, production of the statue had diminished, molds were lost, and Chango’s future remained uncertain until a local surfer and longtime Baja traveler,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, Beth Slevcove,We recently added Stained glass mosaic Tile to our inventory. got involved.
“When I first saw Chango, I thought he was ugly,” says Slevcove, a 43-year-old mother of two. “By the second time, I fell in love. It was love at second sight.”
Visiting Baja for more than 25 years, Slevcove bargained and bought several monkeys per trip for friends and family,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. but as the years went by, they became harder to find — bordering on extinction. With “3-year-old Spanish,” Beth embarked on a scavenger hunt in 2007, which led her “off the beaten path” to a Tijuana factory that housed one of the few remaining surf monkey molds. Once she convinced the factory owner she wasn’t a “crazy tourist,” Slevcove got the mold repaired and began importing surf monkeys to San Diego in bulk.
By 2009, the Surf Monkey Fellowship was born and remains the only U.S. importer of the eight-toed plaster-of-Paris surf legend. In addition to online orders and a place at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, Chango (and Surf Monkey Fellowship T-shirts) can be found at local surf shops,Installers and distributors of solar panel, including Surf Diva, Bird’s Surf Shed, OB Surf & Skate and Hansen’s.
Dating back to the late 1960s at the San Diego–Tijuana border, an icon was born: Chango, the plaster-of-Paris surf monkey. Hunched over a round-nose surfboard and donning a striped one-piece bathing suit, the 12-inch plaster primate dominated border vendor booths in the 1970s and ’80s.
Instead of insulting surfers with its goofy expression and stance (a la the Cardiff Kook), Chango — slang for “monkey” — served as a kitschy keepsake for surfers returning from trips to Baja. Following suit, tourists visiting Tijuana for shopping, eating and reveling began snatching up so many surf monkeys that they earned the affectionate title “Southern California’s garden gnome.”
But every great wave must come to an end, and by the new millennium, Chango got barreled.
After decades of ruling the waves at borderline shops, the surf monkey’s popularity began to diminish with the introduction of more contemporary plaster-of-Paris pieces like Bart Simpson and Dora the Explorer. Eventually, production of the statue had diminished, molds were lost, and Chango’s future remained uncertain until a local surfer and longtime Baja traveler, Beth Slevcove, got involved.
“When I first saw Chango, I thought he was ugly,” says Slevcove, a 43-year-old mother of two. “By the second time, I fell in love. It was love at second sight.”
Visiting Baja for more than 25 years, Slevcove bargained and bought several monkeys per trip for friends and family, but as the years went by, they became harder to find — bordering on extinction. With “3-year-old Spanish,” Beth embarked on a scavenger hunt in 2007, which led her “off the beaten path” to a Tijuana factory that housed one of the few remaining surf monkey molds. Once she convinced the factory owner she wasn’t a “crazy tourist,” Slevcove got the mold repaired and began importing surf monkeys to San Diego in bulk.
By 2009, the Surf Monkey Fellowship was born and remains the only U.S. importer of the eight-toed plaster-of-Paris surf legend. In addition to online orders and a place at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, Chango (and Surf Monkey Fellowship T-shirts) can be found at local surf shops, including Surf Diva, Bird’s Surf Shed, OB Surf & Skate and Hansen’s.
The hummingbird, also known as the doctor-bird, is the Jamaican national bird. This particular type of hummingbird lives only in Jamaica. Foodtimeline.org states a recipe for doctor-bird cake appeared in the Jamaican Daily Gleaner in March 1969.
Southern Living magazine is generally credited with the first reference to Hummingbird Cake. It published the recipe, submitted by Mrs. L.H. Wiggins of Greensboro, N.C., in its February 1978 issue.
As for the name, the hummingbird is drawn to intensely sweet flowers and syrups. Incredibly, they are able to assess the amount of sugar in the nectar they eat. They reject flower types that produce nectar less than 12 percent sugar and prefer those whose sugar content is around 25 percent.
One theory is that since this cake is sweet, and so delicious, it makes you hum with happiness when you’re eating it. Also, Foodtimeline.org notes that maybe it was named after the way the cake is eaten quickly, similar to the eating pattern of those tiny energetic fliers.
I buy that. It is a sweet cake, and one that doesn’t stay around long, especially if you have a hot cup of coffee sitting beside it.
Regardless, it’s my recipe for this week. It’s perfect for those after Thanksgiving “eat till I bust” blues, and it would make a wonderful Christmas dinner dessert.
While I was perusing information about hummingbird cake, I came across other interesting facts about the history of cakes. Here are a few:
One article stated cake dates back to ancient times, although it was very different from what we eat today.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the English word “cake” back to the 13th century. It’s a derivation of “kaka,” an Old Norse word. Medieval European bakers often made fruitcakes and gingerbread.
According to food historians, the precursors of modern cakes (the round ones) were first baked in Europe sometime in the mid-17th century due to advances in technology for ovens, the manufacturing of food molds and the discovery of refined sugar. At that time, cake hoops, round molds for shaping cakes that were placed on flat baking trays, were used. They could be made of metal, wood or paper.
It was not until the middle of the 19th century that cake, as we know it today, made with extra-refined white flour and baking powder instead of yeast, popped up. Wouldn’t our great-grandmothers have just had a heyday with Duncan-Hines or Betty Crocker?
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