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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Recipes would be nice.  Minus the spitting, of course <g>

Even having run a butcher shop and having helped Grampa when I was a kid, 
somethings still don't sit well.  I was NOT prepared to lift the pot at 
Noni's house when she was teaching me how to make "real" Italian food and a 
pig was staring back at me from the stock pot!  I'm rather inclined to leave 
the eyeballs out of my cooking <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "clhw" <clhw AT InfoAve.Net>


> Interesting, Clansgian; you confirm what the Russian refugees I sponsored
> told me.
>
> When I took the first one, actually he was a Byelorussian, and his wife
> Ukranian, for the first shopping trip 2 days after they arrived, it was an
> interesting experience for us both.
>
> First, she refused to go to the store. That was something for MEN to do,
> not women. OK, so I told them to make a list of what she wanted. This was 
> a
> long, drawn-out chore because she didn't know why you would want to write
> down what you wanted. She said, in Ukranian/Russian, "flour!" I said, in
> English, "flour" and then asked what kind of flour. Blank stares. I said,
> in Russian, "Do you want it for bread, cake, blinis, or what?" "Just
> FLOUR." I said, "What kind?" More blank stares. "Self-rising, regular,
> white, whole wheat, rye, pumpernickel?" "JUST FLOUR!!"