The Year of the Hedgehog
November 18, 2004
Pictured above is a Chinese cookie with a happy little girl dancing next to an ignited stick of dynamite.
Boey says that my interpretations of the images on the Chinese cookies are all incorrect (see the June entries). The hedgehog turns out to be a monkey - from the Chinese zodiac, and the frog doesn’t have fans in it mouth but coins - symbolising prosperity. Silly me.
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Latvian Master Baker
November 17, 2004
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I’m living with Latvians again. This time Emils has brought wife/girlfriend Simone and its cosy as can be. They brought me some highly crafted rye bread from Riga. Normally the loaves are 50cm across, this loaf being a cute mini export version.
The bakery claims to be the ‘only bakery in Latvia to have restored the ancestral Latvian national traditions…’ I’m going to assume that’s a Latvian to English translation glitch on the label.
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La Peche qui brule
November 16, 2004
That was the title of the smoldering peach course on that eventually sultry August evening. We placed the carmelised peaches on the pôts de creme au chocolate brulée. You can’t eat one without eating the other.
And that’s exactly what a French speaker would say, ‘You can’t heat one without heating the other.’
As with the previous slideshow, these photos are courtesy of Kristine Malden.
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