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Post by lagatta on Dec 1, 2021 16:16:07 GMT
It's true that pizza, especially outside Italy, is often topped with or incorporates stuff that goes far beyond a bit of tomato or tomato sauce.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 29, 2021 21:35:38 GMT
I presume that flatbreads include pizza; Mediterranean flatbread with certain post-Columbian ingredients (though not all pizzas include tomato).
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Post by lagatta on Nov 27, 2021 19:06:55 GMT
Tod, of course you're in almost Austral summer, but I suspect you almost winter is still much milder than mine. I only have one kitchen counter in my poorly renovated early 20th century kitchen, and very little sunshine. The kitchen plants are by the windows. I have far more plants in my home office/library/living room. Montréal kitchens are considerably larger on average than Parisian ones, even in smallish flats. People gathered in the kitchen near the stove, and at least one child slept there.
I have a sunny flat and attractive wooden floors; not complaining....;
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Post by lagatta on Nov 20, 2021 15:57:48 GMT
I've had Occo chicken in Paris, and much prefer it to KFC, which has wan chicken and too much breading. I de-halal it with some supermarket wine, as do some Maghrebi friends.
Of course the recipe can vary from place to place. I still remember seeing a KFC, rue Poulet. And some cops (poulets) pulled up.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 20, 2021 9:50:15 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Nov 19, 2021 13:33:07 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Nov 18, 2021 0:41:40 GMT
Kissinger is still alive, is it true the good die young?
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Post by lagatta on Nov 17, 2021 18:14:44 GMT
Actual "toiilettes de chat" are very thorough. Human versions don't usually involve licking one's bottom, except among the kinky. I also fell in the kitchen, but not without reason -I'd stepped on Livia's tail, and she was screaming bloody murder. I earned a rainbow of bruises on one shoulder.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 15, 2021 22:34:14 GMT
Yes, at least spouse is there and of course there is no reason to feel guilty, especially since you probably had business to attend to in Anghiari. I've never been to that town, though I have visited Arezzo.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 15, 2021 14:25:15 GMT
Shouldn't South Australia be getting very warm now? It is almost summer down there...
Nowhere near where I live, but there is very severe flooding in southern BC. Fumobici, is this affecting where you live in Washington?
Here is is a "normal" November day in Montréal, so we're all freezing at no more than 5c. It's been very warm and pleasant up to now.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 15, 2021 0:14:43 GMT
I'm drinking some ordinary but tasty and full-bodied Mas de Tourelles from a Duralex Picardie glass.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 13, 2021 23:58:43 GMT
Si on chantait is a very popular song here for karaoke, events etc, so I imagine it will be popular here, and not only for the art house crowd. Idem the small-town factory closing story.
I can't stand Céline Dion, so I'll doubt I'll endure that unless it's on the télé and I'm eating, drinking and laughing with a gang of friends. I suppose the ridiculously large Catholic families here might be amusing for those enlightened places that discovered the "small family idea" earlier on.
I loved Nanni Moretti, and one of my friends did her master's thesis on him, but like k2 have been unimpressed with his recent work.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 10, 2021 22:39:47 GMT
Did they think crabs was referring to pubic lice? I've never heard such a meaning of crab-pot.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 10, 2021 0:55:01 GMT
I agree with Tod - need a little surface scorching.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 10, 2021 0:43:09 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Nov 8, 2021 17:39:32 GMT
You will notice that here is a huge hole in our otherwise admirable health system - almost no dental coverage .
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Post by lagatta on Nov 8, 2021 17:30:12 GMT
Of course not. Perhaps I expressed myself poorly - I thought Greta was stereotyping older generations. I know a fellow nearby who was an MD who pioneered community clinics here. Thus he earned relatively little for a doctor, and always lived modestly. He was born in 1937 and still rides his bicycle everywhere and lives in a smallish flat. He is just one example among others I know ... or knew.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 8, 2021 2:45:29 GMT
We've won our city elections.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 8, 2021 1:11:33 GMT
Oh dear, I knew all those so-called useless facts. Nerd alert!
A good friend of mine is from Brazzaville, in the other Congo, on the other shore of that river... and now in Switzerland.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 7, 2021 18:56:24 GMT
Off to vote in municipal elections, and it is actually a lovely, sunny day!
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Post by lagatta on Nov 7, 2021 18:46:04 GMT
Typical of people with that type of condition. I'm sure Alan Turning must have equally annoying at Bletchley.
Overall, I agree with her, except for her over-confidence in younger and future generations - I certainly know millennials who are as interested in consuming piles of superfluous crap as older people...
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Tips
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Post by lagatta on Nov 5, 2021 19:16:27 GMT
What is the custom in Mexico?
Thanks, bixa, this article is right up my historic alley.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 4, 2021 18:45:12 GMT
Yes, the term "concentration camp" goes back at least to British camps during South African wars.
As for reparations, the Canadian calls for them for the insitutions for the assimilation of Indigenous children, known by the euphemism "residential schools" and the discovery of several mass graveyards.
While nowdays the general public sees Nazi extermination/slave labour centres, historians are more careful about terminology. Enzo Traverso, a historian I know talks of them as a synthesis of slave labour, the modern slaughterhouse and the modern factory (of the ultra-exploitative sort).
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Post by lagatta on Nov 4, 2021 17:46:11 GMT
While that passage was beautiful and I live in the same sugar-maple climate, I loathe winter.
As people here might know, I had a very odd stroke some months ago - odd in that I had a problem assimilating some vitamins, although I generally eat properly. I loathe talking about health issues at least as much as I hate winter, and for the same reason - a loss of mobility. While I walk much better and my memory has returned, it will be a while before I can cycle again and walk enough to make travel worthwhile.
Dependency is living death, or at least life not worth living. Whatagain, perhaps Mme Whatagain can tell her mother that she has to walk daily and do other exercise assigned by meds or physiotherapists.
I'm sure casimira is ornery enough to fight the balance issues.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 4, 2021 16:27:57 GMT
These things should be online nowadays. I've certainly benefited from interpreting at global meetings (including one connected with IPCC-GIEC) and interpreting online is horrible, but this COP should earn an oil-well award for unsustainability. Remember that just before, there was a G20 in Rome and I doubt that everone attending both travelled by railway...
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Post by lagatta on Nov 2, 2021 15:33:29 GMT
More on the parrots (alas I missed them on my several visits, as I've stayed for at least three places near there, once for a month (house exchange) and other things. The parrots were sturdy enough to survive the Paris chill, but I can't imagine any living in St Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad ... or at our historic cemetery on Mont-Royal. There are limits to acclimatation. Reporterre is an online French ecology journal, here is a report on the more environmentally-respectful Père-Lachaise management and its impact on wildlife (and stray cats). I will NOT translate the whole thing - too much like work and I'm already translating stuff on COP Glasgow... I might be able to answer a few questions. reporterre.net/Entre-les-tombes-du-Pere-Lachaise-la-vie-sauvage?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_quotidienne
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Post by lagatta on Nov 1, 2021 19:38:37 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Nov 1, 2021 16:23:43 GMT
Prawn crackers are very popular in the Netherlands, an adaptation of a snack that was originally Indonesian - Questa should remember which island.
They are the kind of junk I like as I rarely like sweets; they are salty, seafoody and fried in oil.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 1, 2021 16:15:26 GMT
A close friend is a partner in an organic boulangerie - all sorts of whole grains but also good baguettes. He doesn't hesitate to slice and freeze parts of the heavier breads.
Only Mark, I love some Moroccan bread, but it is very different from Egyptian and Levantine bread.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 29, 2021 1:47:31 GMT
Entrée doesn't mean main dish everywhere, not even in English...
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