{"id":21678,"date":"2014-11-12T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21678"},"modified":"2014-11-13T08:14:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T13:14:57","slug":"seltzer-girl-mississippi-albert-use-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/seltzer-girl-mississippi-albert-use-this\/","title":{"rendered":"SELTZER GIRL \/
MISSISSIPPI ALBERT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seltzer is<\/strong> <\/span>a major player in my house.\u00a0 My wife, Alice, bought stock in seltzer, SodaStream, and I drink a fair amount of La Croix and occasionally Klarbrunn from Costco. I stick to lime and lemon. I should try peach. I was at a party — on a gig — where the host had all the La Croix flavors, but I wasn\u2019t thirsty so I didn’t open up the various cans and sip.<\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/a>

Jack Stratton, 2011,
with SodaStream<\/p><\/div>\n

There used to be seltzer delivery guys. I never saw one. My friend Shelly had home delivery.\u00a0 My parents didn\u2019t. My mother was big with Diet Rite Cola, though. My son Teddy favored Hank\u2019s Root Beer.\u00a0 Alice used to be a diehard Diet Coke proponent.\u00a0 My son Jack loves SodaStream.\u00a0 My daughter, Lucy, doesn’t drink much.\u00a0 That’s the story of carbonation in my family.<\/p>\n

Alice<\/strong> gives<\/strong><\/span> SodaStreams as gifts. She hopes her purchases will increase the stock’s value.<\/p>\n

I know people who can distinguish club soda from seltzer water, and can expound on the level of fizz in SodaStream versus canned seltzers.\u00a0 My wife is one of those persons.\u00a0 She is Seltzer Girl.<\/p>\n

\"seltzer<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Check out “Mississippi Albert” <\/a>in Belt Magazine<\/span>. <\/span>It’s about my “roots” in Mississippi.\u00a0 When I taught blues harmonica, I told the students my mother was from Yazoo City, Mississippi.\u00a0 I wasn’t lying!\u00a0 Here<\/a> is the story.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 I traveled to Mississippi.<\/span> This photo, below, is from Cleveland Heights, 1977:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"blues<\/a>
\n—
\nOne more photo . . . from<\/span> Mississipppi, about 1926. My mother, Julia Zalk Stratton, age 6, on R; her older sister, Bernice Zalk Golden, in back; and baby sister Celeste Zalk Kent (who is now 87) in the high chair; and a cousin on far L:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"mississippi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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