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Post by Voy on Sept 15, 2019 2:07:17 GMT 2
Baz - I won tickets to Last Night when I lived in London ! ( it was a lottery that you could only enter if you had bought tickets during the regular season - which I had ) it was AMAZING! All those folks singing together at the end - Jerusalem and Rule Brittania - definitely one of those "once in a lifetime" experiences !
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Post by tzarine on Sept 15, 2019 15:44:05 GMT 2
i once stood inline @ a local market behind m. rickman. he said thank you in that voice I don't suppose you asked if you could take a selfie of the two of you together? Absolutely not lots of celebs live in my postcode & locals just leave them alone like hugh jackman used to play w his kids @ our local park cultural activities people watched in "mpd" meat packing district - the fake name created by developers. it was always the meat market back in the day before it became a mall oh my, the fashion choices made ate indian curry @ punjab deli watch and english show, prime suspect, starring a russian woman, helen mirren
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Post by tzarine on Sept 17, 2019 20:07:01 GMT 2
went to a fascinating photo exhibit on the nyc waterfront in the 70s the highline was an abandoned railway there were abandoned warehouses, flamboyantly dressed skaters & hustlers, messed up piers
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Post by tzarine on Sept 19, 2019 17:36:44 GMT 2
i said spasiba to our waiter in brighton
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Post by sophie on Sept 21, 2019 17:39:21 GMT 2
Siting in the Sol Duc hot springs in Olympic National Park I heard (and spoke with) folks from at least 6 different countries. Russia was heavily represented but I didn’t speak with any of them as other conversations were so darn interesting.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 22, 2019 2:50:57 GMT 2
first ever visit to museum of the city of new york great history of the city from the dutch through depression through ww2 to 9\11 to now fun film of jackie robinson playing baseball w his son & neighbourhood kids. his son, going "oh, dad"
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Post by tzarine on Sept 28, 2019 1:58:37 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 7, 2019 19:49:58 GMT 2
I cooked a la Italiano - Pasta Bolognese!
We drank coffee from Brazil, and tea from Ceylon.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 7, 2019 21:33:07 GMT 2
i had fromage from france & in the colonial mood, am sipping vietnamese cafe w sweetened condensed milk
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Post by tzarine on Oct 7, 2019 21:57:22 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 8, 2019 2:01:44 GMT 2
i had fromage from france & in the colonial mood, am sipping vietnamese cafe w sweetened condensed milk Oh how I wish I was there beside you, Tzarine - I adore Vietnamese coffee. At the cafs in Viet Nam, black tea is offered with your coffee. I've been to cafe cafes, and little hole-in-the-wall places, and enjoyed all of them. Actually, the more hole-in-the-wall, the better!
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Post by tzarine on Oct 14, 2019 1:00:02 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Oct 18, 2019 21:29:00 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Oct 19, 2019 20:30:34 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Oct 21, 2019 2:06:48 GMT 2
explored castle williams on governors island took the ferry over
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Post by Voy on Oct 21, 2019 19:10:30 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 22, 2019 23:08:00 GMT 2
I saw a pair of shoes online, and knew I just HAD to have them.
They are a very pale straw colour with - wait for it - hand embroidered lobsters! over them. I thought of Voy. Every time I wear these shoes I know I'll think of Voy.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 22, 2019 23:22:39 GMT 2
i spoke some french to a haitian lady i cannot understand patois
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Post by tzarine on Oct 27, 2019 4:32:16 GMT 2
tzar & i drank free veuve cliquot
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Post by Voy on Oct 27, 2019 14:55:35 GMT 2
now that's ^ culture !!
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 2, 2019 8:02:05 GMT 2
The village is filling up with extended family members for the "Conmemoración de los Fieles Difuntos" (Day of the Dead).
A boon to candle makers and church coffers.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 4, 2019 1:57:31 GMT 2
last night i watched life of oharu & ate chupa chups from spain
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 4, 2019 3:46:30 GMT 2
I can swear in five languages.
That's cultural.
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 4, 2019 8:04:41 GMT 2
We went to the modern art gallery today - first time in about a year. THere is a Sonnabend collection on display right now. I didn't know many of the artists, but had heard of a few (like Andy Warhol and Jasper John) and there was a piece by an artist whose exhibition we saw in Hong Kong, years ago (Jeff Koonz). I can't say I really liked all of it, but there were some pieces that were great. My favourite was a collection of photographs of kids from the 1950s. They were all pictures that the children had sent in to the Mickey Mouse Club Magazine - they were supposed to send in pictures of them being happy/with their favourite things. Many of them were just portraits, but a lot had them with their pet, or riding their bike, or in an interesting place.
The gallery also has a large collection of Picasso prints, and change the ones on display a few times per year. So we hadn't seen the ones they have now, which were all on a still life theme.
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Post by slowcoach on Nov 5, 2019 6:00:42 GMT 2
My wife gave a pastry making class to the village youngster (50).
It had not occurred to me that they do not know what UK style pastry is, and do not seem to have a word in Castellano that corresponds precisely to pastry in English.
It seems that, in Iberia at least, the substitute is a leavened dough in most or perhaps all regions.
This all started a couple of years ago when she made an distributed mince pies at Christmas. It is perhaps not surprising that they had never seen the mince before but they hadn't seen pastry before.
Can anyone point me to a Spanish dish made in Spain as opposed to Latin America that is made with UK style pastry?
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Post by tzarine on Nov 6, 2019 2:49:32 GMT 2
i will have a thai glutinous rice dessert tonight
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 6, 2019 5:45:40 GMT 2
My wife gave a pastry making class to the village youngster (50). It had not occurred to me that they do not know what UK style pastry is, and do not seem to have a word in Castellano that corresponds precisely to pastry in English. It seems that, in Iberia at least, the substitute is a leavened dough in most or perhaps all regions. This all started a couple of years ago when she made an distributed mince pies at Christmas. It is perhaps not surprising that they had never seen the mince before but they hadn't seen pastry before. Can anyone point me to a Spanish dish made in Spain as opposed to Latin America that is made with UK style pastry? That's really interesting. I don't know anything about Spanish food so have no idea if the lack of UK style pastry will be regional or national. I remember eating a LOT of patisserie in Portugal, though I can't remember specifically now if any of it used that style of pastry.
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Post by shrjeff on Nov 6, 2019 7:04:05 GMT 2
Wouldn't the Portuguese egg tart which was enthusiastically adopted by the Chinese and bacame part of dim sum assortments use a pastry dough?
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 6, 2019 10:12:08 GMT 2
yes, pastel de nata has a pastry casing of sort, as far as I know.
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 6, 2019 10:21:10 GMT 2
and in Catalunya at least, I remember these easter cakes they made. there was some sort of sponge base and lots and lots of cream
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