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Nowruz!
Nowruz! The Amazing Zoroastrians Oh dear. We missed it –Persian New Year. Why, you ask, is that important to our culture here whose immediate worry is how to find hand gel, toilet paper, and tinned tomatoes in empty-shelved grocery shops, … Continue reading
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Tagged carrots, Iran, New Year, New year celebrations, New Year customs, onions, rice, spring, vegan, Vernal Equinox, Zoroastrians
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Greeting Cards
Receiving “Faithful friends that are dear to us, gather near to us once more…” goes the cheesy Christmas song we crooned last night at the winter sing-along. I love receiving cards and letters and news and emails, and telephone … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, cards, Christmas, Greetings, mail, post persons, thoran, vegan, vegetables
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Doors — more humiliation
Doors – and More Humiliation! One thing about building a community is its individual welcome, and DOORS are part of that welcome. I love the wreaths that my Indiana sister puts on her front door, that change according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Hall, chicken, doors, fish, India, meat, sauce, spareribs, tofu, tomato, vegan, vegetarian, wedding shower, welcome
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A Community of Displaced People
Alexandria, Egypt. Summer, 1966, during the Six Day War. 4.am. We arose silently, dressed, gathered our meagre belongings and went outside. The police, also silent, led us into their waiting cars, the engines idling softly, ready to move.. Then quietly, … Continue reading
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Tagged aubergines, displaced people, eggplants, Egypt, Recipes, rice, Six Day War, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, volunteer support
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March
March Storm. On a recent morning walk, a passenger jet prepared to land on my head. It didn’t. And it wasn’t. It was only the wild wild wind thrashing the trees– spraying the raindrops into showers of rainbows … Continue reading
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Tagged crumble, dessert, dried fruit, fresh fruit, Herefordshire, spring, storm, vegan, vegetarian, wind
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American Thanksgiving in a Non American Country
Well, we had roast turkey, sausages, gravy, apple-celery-bacon cornbread stuffing with cashews and cranberries, Amish sweet potatoes with apple and mace, mashed potatoes, squash with crystallised ginger, green beans almondine, broccoli, cranberry-orange relish, the obligatory creamed onions (which, I understand, … Continue reading
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Tagged casserole, foreign, Mayflower, Mexican, Sarah Josepha Hale, Thanksgiving, turkey, vegan, vegetarian
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A Community Farewell
Well, it had to happen eventually, didn’t it — time to leave this community. people who have welded themselves into our hearts, who know us well, have seen us in pajamas and no make up hanging up clothes, have … Continue reading
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