29/9/2006

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Sanguinaccio dolce

Filed under: — Mikolaj at analog clock showing 10:53

I was talking with my vegetarian colleague about the risk of stumbling across ingredients which have animal origin, like various E-numbers, and as I searched the internet, I found this interesting thing:

Sanguinaccio dolce (Google translation) - a chocolate cream with pig’s blood.

Since it is a Carnival tradition, it must be really old. Too bad that the description is so laconic…

14/9/2006

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auto-translation zen

Filed under: — Mikolaj at analog clock showing 11:21

I bought some mojo rojo, as I want to make papas arrugadas today. So I found some spanish recipes in google, hit “translate” and got this:Popes wrinkled with gravy. Where will I get 1kg of small Popes? 

5/9/2006

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Tale of a bloated ego

Filed under: — Mikolaj at analog clock showing 8:26

NOTE: I put the story on another server, as this is a single story I want to share, where I don’t want any bots & spiders to pick up certain details.
 
Imagine you go to a restaurant, for a dish you have had a dozen times before. The chef greets you kindly, spreading this aura of unquestionable mastery, since, well, he already made the a dish a handful of times! Sounds dubious? Well we have seen situations like this a couple of times now. READ ON…

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Mikolaj Swidzinski