Beauty & Brains
She was a first lady who later married a Greek shipping magnate and became a book editor for Viking Press and Doubleday.
Jackie Kennedy-Onassis
This is the meat ingredient in pigs in a blanket.
Hot dog
This cruciferous vegetable has an ornamental version that adds color to the fall garden.
Hint: It adds green, white, pink, and/or purple to the garden.
kale
This 1967 flick stars Anne Bancroft as the older love interest of Dustin Hoffman.
Hint: The film catapulted shy and soft-spoken Dustin Hoffman to stardom.
The Graduate
Held in November in America, this holiday is always celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada.
Thanksgiving
This media maven spent five months in prison at “Camp Cupcake,” not for insider trading but for conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and two counts of making false statements.
Martha Stewart
This animal’s “wings” are standard happy hour appetizer.
Chicken
Buffalo wings with a side of blue cheese dressing is a classic wing dish.
When planted in October, this delicious, white, cruciferous vegetable overwinters and is ready for harvest in early summer.
Cauliflower
With the tagline “A love story of today,” this film stars Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn as a young couple in love.
Hint: This is the last movie Spencer Tracy acted in, as he was very ill at the time.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Red delicious, yellow delicious, and Roma varieties of this fruit are harvested in October.
Apples
Fun fact: The average tree fills roughly 20 boxes at harvest, weighing approximately 42 pounds each.
Her name is synonymous with Red Door perfume, her signature fragrance.
Elizabeth Arden
This Italian cheese is cut into sticks, coated with breading, and then deep fried.
Mozzarella
October is the perfect month to start this sweet Italian herb indoors to provide a year-round supply for making pesto.
Basil
It is an annual plant, and it won’t last after a frost. Its seeds are easy to sprout, and there are many varieties other than Genovese, the most common basil.
She stars as the socialite Holly Golightly in breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Audrey Hepburn
Reduced sunlight is one reason the leaves on this type of tree change color before the tree loses its leaves.
Deciduous
This woman launched her modeling career as an infant in the 1960s and her acting career in 1981. She graduated with honors from Princeton University in 1987.
Brooke Shields
Sour cream and a package of onion soup or dip mix have been the two ingredients of this standby dip since at least the 1960s.
French onion dip
It was initially called California dip after an unknown cook in Los Angeles, California, invented it.
October is the best month to plant this stalky harbinger of spring. The hardy perennial will take two or three years to be ready for your kitchen table.
Asparagus
Planting in the fall gives it a better chance of survival than planting in the spring. Be sure to plant it in the ground, because asparagus plants grow large and need room to thrive.
This 1961 drama involves two lovers from opposing gangs in New York city and plenty of musical numbers.
West Side Story
This divided country was reunited in October 1990.
Hint:
The Cold War divided the country into East and West. After 45 years, the two were officially reunited on October 3, 1990, less than one year after the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989.
Germany
This supermodel’s big break was posing for the cover of Vogue’s August 1986 issue. She launched the Meaningful Beauty line of cosmetics in 2005, and she hasn’t seemed to age a day since then.
Cindy Crawford
Wrap this around pineapple or water chestnuts and secure with a toothpick for a quick, baked appetizer.
Bacon
You can also wrap it around shrimp and coat it with barbecue sauce.
This flowering shrub is used to produce a popular facial astringent.
Witch hazel
It’s indigenous to the American Northeast, and it remains in bloom after most of the garden has gone dormant. It attracts butterflies but is resistant to deer.
This romantic musical film of 1964 is based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion.
My Fair Lady
When it’s not a harvest moon, the name of October’s full moon is this.
The hunter’s moon (or sanguine or blood moon)