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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: cook books
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 01-17-15  18:40 <=-

 RH>>> You've done well stretching your horizons. I know a lot of
 RH>>> people who retain close minded values, even tho they've had the
 RH>>> chance to do (some) travel. Those that seek out a new
 RH>>> experience, even tho it may not take them far from "home", will
 RH>>> be broadened for it.
 NB>>> Exactly.  :)
 RH>> It's not quite the same as being there but better than not trying
 RH>> something new.
 NB>> Next best thing... :)  And, barring going on someone else's dime,
 NB>> generally more affordable...  :)

 RH> Beats borrowing up to the eyebrows just to travel. 

For sure.  :)  And, I have had the chance to do at least a little travel
as an adult... including 4 different trips to Britain...  :)

 RH> At times I miss the travel we did with the Army, other times I'm
 RH> content to be more settled.

We moved a lot when I was a kid, as I've mentioned before... and I've
done a number of road trips since, mostly for genealogy, partly just for
family or friends... gets some of the wanderlust built in by my
childhood out of my system...  As I get older, I'm more willing to stay
put...  ;)  At least between trips...  (G)

 RH>>> The echo here has introduced me to foods I'd never heard of, nor
 RH>>> tried until I became acive here, durian being one example. (G)
 NB>>> A very good example... and without the picnics, that might only
 NB>>> have been talked about...  (G)
 RH>> I suspect so. They'd given up having one for a few years, but I'm glad
 RH>> one made its way to Janis's a few years ago.
 NB>> That was xxCarol's doing... along with getting me there for the chance
 NB>> to try it as well..  ;)  Gave me bragging rights with my brother
 NB>> (who'd been to the Philippines, but not managed to try it there) and
 NB>> my niece's then boyfriend, who was Filipino...  :)

 RH> We'd heard of it only thru the echo, heard of it for quite some time
 RH> before we actually tried it.

I actually hadn't heard of it until the echo, and the talk about
planning that first picnic I went to... but then going from the picnic,
where I'd just tried it, to that year's family camping where I could
brag on it to people like my brother that already HAD known about it,
that was just icing on the cake... ;)
 
 NB>>> ... Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
 RH>> We've all got to eat, something. And, a lot of cultures share some
 RH>> basics in common--rice and some form of breadstuff are a couple of
 RH>> "for instances".
 NB>> Quite... and some sort of meat in a breadstuff, as well... ;)
 NB>> Part of the fun is seeing the similarities among the differences...
 NB>> and vice versa, as well... :)

 RH> Yes, quite similar in some respects, very diverse in others.

Makes it interesting...  ;)
 
 NB>> ... It's amazing how pervasive food is.

 RH> It's everywhere!

And a good thing that is... (G)

ttyl      neb

... When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

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