happy (late >.< ) birthday to alethialia! one of my favoritest tv recappers and fellow haven fan. :D this calls for cake and shirtless duke
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you're most welcome! i figured you'd appreciate that particular shirtless hottie. :D and if you want to imagine him covered with frosting, well, i wouldn't stop you.
I'm so glad they FINALLY hired a receptionist! But that is balanced by so much wtf since he or she doesn't start until MARCH. What even?
The cookbook you're reading sounds interesting--which are words I never thought I'd say to anyone, but it makes me think of this woman I've been volunteering with since summer. I help her edit the memoirs she has written for her grandchildren, which go back to her childhood in pre-WWII Moscow, and she cooks me delicious Jewish-Russian food. I think I'd enjoy the history and her biography even if she didn't insist on cooking (she's a good writer and has had a really interesting life), but the combination is pretty fantastic. I'll have to look into the book.
MARCH. apparently she has some things to finish up at her current job. why they need to take a month and a half, i have no idea. unless she wants some time off between one job and the next, and to be honest i wouldn't blame her if that was part of it. but still. i have to do this shit for another month and a half.
mastering the art of soviet cooking isn't really a cookbook. most of the chapters have a recipe for whatever the author and her mom made from that particular decade, but, like, they didn't make anything from the 40s because those were war years and so many people starved to death, so there's no recipe, just a picture of a ration booklet. and the chapter for the teens, which is what i'm on now, doesn't have a recipe because the featured dish is such a pain in the ass to make, and it's a pre-revolution russian dish and the author has never actually had it in its classic form because no one's made it like that in about a century. but it's about food and history and memory and nostalgia and that stuff is really
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OSKAR AND CONRAD! I'm glad you're thinking about them more and bending people's ears about them, even if it's for a cameo :D Because maybe you'll write the whole thing one day! There is hope.
The cookbook does sound fascinating. I'm a bit discouraged by the fact that the lady was ten when she immigrated, so she wouldn't have that many memories associated with those periods in Russian history, but I bet it's still amazing. Rationing cards! *shudder* They made a comeback in the 80s. I have vague memories of them. Asked Dad once and he said the country was kinda short on food there, so they reintroduced rationing cards like in the war.
but to write the whole thing i'd have to suffer through a lot of really horrible research! and then i'd have to write some really horrible shit! and it would take, like, forever!
there's some really interesting (at least i think it is) stuff in the book about nostalgia and what exactly they're nostalgic for - and the gap between actual history and what people remember - not just current nostalgia but things the author missed about russia after she emigrated. i mean, the kinds of things you wouldn't necessarily think someone would miss. (bad food, mostly, it sounds like.)
so depressing that the ussr had to resort to ration cards during non-war years.
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The cookbook you're reading sounds interesting--which are words I never thought I'd say to anyone, but it makes me think of this woman I've been volunteering with since summer. I help her edit the memoirs she has written for her grandchildren, which go back to her childhood in pre-WWII Moscow, and she cooks me delicious Jewish-Russian food. I think I'd enjoy the history and her biography even if she didn't insist on cooking (she's a good writer and has had a really interesting life), but the combination is pretty fantastic. I'll have to look into the book.
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mastering the art of soviet cooking isn't really a cookbook. most of the chapters have a recipe for whatever the author and her mom made from that particular decade, but, like, they didn't make anything from the 40s because those were war years and so many people starved to death, so there's no recipe, just a picture of a ration booklet. and the chapter for the teens, which is what i'm on now, doesn't have a recipe because the featured dish is such a pain in the ass to make, and it's a pre-revolution russian dish and the author has never actually had it in its classic form because no one's made it like that in about a century. but it's about food and history and memory and nostalgia and that stuff is really ( ... )
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The cookbook does sound fascinating. I'm a bit discouraged by the fact that the lady was ten when she immigrated, so she wouldn't have that many memories associated with those periods in Russian history, but I bet it's still amazing. Rationing cards! *shudder* They made a comeback in the 80s. I have vague memories of them. Asked Dad once and he said the country was kinda short on food there, so they reintroduced rationing cards like in the war.
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there's some really interesting (at least i think it is) stuff in the book about nostalgia and what exactly they're nostalgic for - and the gap between actual history and what people remember - not just current nostalgia but things the author missed about russia after she emigrated. i mean, the kinds of things you wouldn't necessarily think someone would miss. (bad food, mostly, it sounds like.)
so depressing that the ussr had to resort to ration cards during non-war years.
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