The environment

Since I posted my photo from Venice of an artwork in the form of two hands in Grand Canal, I could add that I have learned the work is about climate change. The artist is Lorenzo Quinn and the paper I link to is Greece (but in English ).

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Speaking of that subject. It’s a bad photo. I don’t have a good camera. But this is a Dutch two euro coin with wind turbines on it.



And Angela Merkel (who I don’t have an own photo of) has not just been called the leader of the free world, who might create Pax Germania, and who got the highest marks in a study there Trump, Putin and Xi were unpopular, she has also been called “Climate Chancellor”. Yeah, she has been in the news a lot, I don’t know if she deserves everything, I am not an expert.

A food blog needs a theme and two other things

I can post a new post about a book like I did with the bike book. Joseph Wechsberg Blue trout and black truffles and with the telling subtitle The  Peregrinations of an Epicure.

1. Joseph Wechsberg wrote that his favorite dish was cottage cheese dumplings. I googled for a receipt on cottage cheese dumplings. And here we have a good way of using the internet. Namely find recept on dishes you read about in books. I find a receipt on Hungarian cottage cheese dumplings. Then the thought that if I had a food blog it should be about cooking all receipt from Joseph Wechsberg book. Then I remembered many dishes mentioned had foie gras and truffle in them.

2. I wonder what an epicure really is? Consuming lots of wine, tobacco, food ... are a diseases nowadays. Plus they all gives you cancer. I mentioned I had read Remarque biographies. One biography mentioned that alcohol and women was two of Remarques “passions”. Another biography, written like thirty year later, said that Remarque was an alcoholic and had a compulsory sex life. You see what I am saying. The difference in wording, the question if it is healthy to be a epucure.

3. My favorite part of the book however was when Joseph visit a truffle producing area in France and one guy there says it’s great that Americans were starting to get interested in good food. See, Joseph was born in today's Czech republic, that then was a part of Austria-Hungary. Then he was educated in Vienna and Paris and only come to the US in 1940 as an asylum seeker. He was Jewish. A man with a very European background, who speaks better French and German than English, gets called American. It says something.

My next book post will be about a Gandhi biography.