Diamonds win women’s hearts? Mother and child afterschool reunion; Babushka name-nesting histo-mystery; Branch of dendrology(?) enhances leisure

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Welcome to our May18th edition of Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! 
Our featured puzzle this week is an elegant and smart offering by Mathew Huffman, a good friend of Puzzleria! It appears under our Appetizer Menu, and is titled “Branch of dendrology(?) enhances leisure.”
All parts of Mathew’s puzzle fit together like parts of a fine Swiss timepiece. And, there is a nifty subtle hint in the interior of its text.
Also on our menus this week are:
ONE Nested-Name Slice;
ONE Hold ’em Fold ’em Dessert; and
FOUR Afterschool Special Riff-Off Slices.
T.G.I.F. ... Think Good, It’s Friday.
H.F.O.P. ... Have Fun On Puzzleria!

Appetizer Menu

“Location, Location, Slogation” Appetizer:
Branch of dendrology(?) enhances leisure

Name a common type of leisure activity. The first four letters are abbreviations for two places that are popular destinations for this activity. 
Remove the first location, and I’m positive the remaining letters are a term from a branch of science that is related to the removed location’s slogan. 
What are the activity, related branch of science, and slogan?
  

 MENU

Go Figure Slice:
Babushka name-nesting histo-mystery

Place the first and last names of a historical figure next to each another without a space. Remove an equal number of letters from the beginning and from the end of this result to spell the last name of a lesser known historical figure associated with the first figure.
The surname of the lesser known figure thus “nests” within the full name of the more well known figure.
Who are these two historical figures?

Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices:
Mother and child afterschool reunion

Will Shortz’s May 13th NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, composed by Peter Collins of Ann Arbor, Michigan, reads:
Think of a two-word phrase a child might shout when walking in the front door. Rearrange the letters and add an “E” at the end, and you get the next two words the child might shout. These are both common expressions. What are they?
Puzzleria!’s Riffing Off Shortz And Collins Slices read:
ONE:
Think of a two-word phrase a man might shout when walking in the front door, a phrase he might repeat a few times upon receiving no response. 
Rearrange the letters, and you get the two words the man’s wife eventually might shout back. 
These are both somewhat common expressions. What are they?

TWO:
Think of a three-word phrase a hungry child might shout when walking in the front door. The first word is a contraction. 
Rearrange the letters and you get the the two-word response a health-conscious mother might shout. These are both somewhat common expressions. What are they?
THREE:
The woman of the house answers the doorbell asking, “Who is it?” 
A voice responds with a 3-syllable, 9-letter word. The woman peers through the fish-eye lens peephole in her door, observes a sinister-looking figure wearing a trenchcoat, phones the police and blurts out a 5-word sentence beginning and ending with the words “A” and “bell.”
The three remaining words can be spelled by using the rearranged letters of the nine letters in the 3-syllable word. 
What did the woman blurt to the police?
FOUR:
Think of a three-word phrase a child might mutter a minute or two after walking in the front door and finding no one else in the house.
Rearrange the letters and you’ll get three ingredients the child might use to make an afterschool snack: a deli meat in one word, a butter substitute in one word, and noodles made from wheat in one word. 
What phrase does the child shout? What are the words for the three afterschool snacks ingredients? 

Dessert Menu

Dealing An Idiomatic Dessert:
Diamonds win women’s hearts?

Half the words in a particular well known idiom are commonly used in card playing, even though the idiom itself has nothing to do with card playing. 
The initial letters in the words of the idiom, in reverse order, spell a world capital. 
What is the idiom?

Every Friday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup, Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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