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Simply..exotic cook books....

24/8/2017

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These were all Barry's. I've already donated a lot under this heading, but will keep these in case I actually begin to really like cooking again and want to experiment. Who knows!

Just looking at these is reminding me of some lovely food experiences in different countries. In Sweden, where I shared a little house with two Italian students, Elvira and Titziano, who would have long discussions over the simplest of meals about how they were cooked in  their regions of Italy. Elvira cooked a 6 course meal from scratch for our Swedish friends (I assisted). Meanwhile the students back in Manchester were mostly eating Pot Noodles and carry-outs!

In Hong Kong, where Jennie and I ate in a restaurant where no-one spoke English. I still don't know what we were eating, but it was delicious and we struggled a bit with the chopsticks before I noticed that all the other customers - all Chinese - were using knives and forks. I think they were having a gentle laugh at us...
 
Venice: breakfasts standing up in a tiny bar on the street,  Cyprus: the tenderest meat ever, cooked overnight in an outdoor oven over scented wood and then cooked by the sun all of the next day... New Zealand: Death By Chocolate....What a nostalgia trip these books have prompted!

I'm off to dig out some photographs now.

What are your favourite food memories?
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Viv link
24/8/2017 03:56:04 pm

This set me thinking as I find it hard to remember food moments in this way - I tend to remember the food calamities mainly because we struggle so much to find Vegetarian food especially abroad - in Brittany we lived on crepes when we went out as it is a big seafood place and we are 'proper' vegetarians not eating any meat or fish. I do have fond memories of sharing food with friends - they are all meat eating but always try their best to feed us when we get together!

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Freda
25/8/2017 02:18:24 pm

I can see what a problem that might be, but sharing is the thing, and the thing I am missing most.

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julia
24/8/2017 04:00:44 pm

ok...don't laugh...favorite food memory...hampton inn, JFK, breakfast bar...mortadella and hard boiled egg sandwich on white bread with butter; salt and pepper..don't ask me why..but it was just the BEST ever....:-)

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Freda
25/8/2017 02:19:27 pm

Mmmm (but I am curious about exactly why!).

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Grace
24/8/2017 11:31:58 pm

I have Jerusalem on my shelf too. It's a beautiful book, but I've never actually made anything from it (lots of ingredients ...). I think my favourite food experience ever was having breakfast with my family in a tiny little off-the-beaten- track place in North Carolina. The food was just delicious and there were hummingbirds buzzing around the plants at the entrance. It was right next to the local fire station and I remember my children being delighted by the big, highly-polished fire engine parked in front (circa 1995).

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Freda
25/8/2017 02:20:46 pm

The whole thing sounds wonderful, a lovely memory.

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Mary
25/8/2017 02:37:25 am

Traveling on business with a group led by a Bishop in Rome (how is that for a first line), he walked us through a labyrinth of back streets to a small piazza. It was lunchtime and he wanted to go to his favorite place. The restaurant owners greeted him with tremendous enthusiam (hugs/kisses/exclamations of joy) and then set up four or five table outside, all with umbrellas over them to keep us out of the midday sun, and proceeded to lay out the most fabulous meal ever--all fresh and flavorful and on platters for us to take as little or as much as we wanted. Same with the wine. We all sat there for more than two hours enjoying the food and the talk. How civilized! I can still picture it in my mind's eye.

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Freda
25/8/2017 02:22:17 pm

Wonderfully civilized! The Italians know a thing or two about food, and how to give it the time it deserves.

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cath
25/8/2017 09:10:17 am

Why is it that packing cut grass like this always reminds me of France.. Lovely, lovely banner.

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Freda
25/8/2017 02:23:21 pm

Wet grass in this instance - poor farmers here this season...glad you like the photograph.

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