My second-favourite pagan holiday

[muckefuck]

"And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the…wood on the cross. Well, you tell me!"--Eddie Izzard

I didn't eat any chocolate eggs--not because they were none to be had (this is the B & E Household, after all) but because I was too full of Neapolitan cheesecake and Sicilian anise cookies. Not to mention all the honest-to-goodness real food: bunj's grilled lamb chops, e.'s asparagus, spookyfruit's mushroom risotto, monshu's fennel salad, my Catalan-style mustard greens, and--breaking with the overall Southern European theme--KatErin's kielbasa on rye.

I was thrilled to see everybody and to finally have what felt like a family Easter Dinner for a change after years of Gay Hipster ones. My only regret was that monshu spent the day in bed, recovering from a nasty cold that's been dogging him since Friday night. (Come to think of it, I'd better lay in some soup while I can, since chances are it'll be knocking on my door next.) Well, that and the fact that we took what had to be the most lunkheaded route possible to lovely Portage Park, proof (if any were needed) just how much dumber four heads can be than only one.

Happy Easter, everyone!

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[gasterea.livejournal.com]

Happy Easter!
Here are some pictures of Central and East European Easter specialties from the 'Easter around the World' Toronto exhibition, may be you'd like to have a look (the quality is beyond the pale, but the subject rather more inspiring). It was especially interesting to see how ritual bread names and recipes change from country to country, all words are familiar but with meanings shifting widely.

http://gasterea.livejournal.com/35531.html#cutid1

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Христос воскрес! Воистину воскрес!

Many thanks for the link. I've know what koláče are for years, but this is the first time I've finally seen a full-grown колак!

[gasterea.livejournal.com]

It's quite reciprocated - as I am new to the New World it's the first time I see this name applied to something small and stuffed :-)))

In the meanwhile something has come up that might be of some interest to you. In fact I've just discovered a grant of my dreams - I am working on a diachronic digital culinary thesaurus (starting with Latin food names and their Romance derivates) and I would like to include you in the team for the proposal very much - as somebody who is really interested in food and food names, and an accomplished linguist (Catalan and Basque are very important to the project, and hopefully at a later stage we will be able to tackle even Romance food words assimilated into Oriental languages - like tempura etc., and I think it would be rathe up your street too). I don't know whether you hold any academic position right now or not but this is not too important. So if you are interested I could send you an e-mail with more details on it. Does your userinfo e-mail adress admit gmail?
Unfortunately it's a very serious grant-issuer and deadline is almost upon us, so please answer me as soon as you can. It could be rather renumerative (for the part-time internet work I mean) - at least I am certainly trying to make it so, but I had only individual grants before so I don't know whether the panel of judges does a lot of budget cutting.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what you mean by "admit gmail". I've never had any trouble receiving mail there from gmail accounts, if that's what you mean. Just in case, though, an alternative address is "da at unchi dot org".

This sounds like a very interesting proposal, and I'd love to work on it! Let me know ASAP if you need a resume, references, or copies of my credentials.