If you really want to feel the spirit of shavuos, there are a few things you must know. Remembering, of course, that if you have an allergy to milk-derived products, you might not be truly equipped to enjoy the chag.
CREAMY THINGS
The primary one is that it is a minhag set in stone to eat dairy: cheesecake, blintzes. Cream-filled pastries and puffs, buttery flaky goodnesses. Yoghurty things. Clotted cream on scones with preserves, and saag paneer with raita, rice, and roti. Plus cheeses, like Jack, Drunken Bishop, or Manchego. Red Leicester, Tilsit, Caerphilly, Bel Paese, Red Windsor, Stilton, Gruyère, Emmental, Norwegian Jarlsberger, Liptauer, Lancashire, White Stilton, Danish Blue, Double Gloucester, Cheshire, Dorset Blue Vinney, Brie, Roquefort, Pont l'Evêque, Port Salut, Savoyard, Saint-Paulin, Carré de l'Est, Bresse-Bleu, Boursin, Camembert, Gouda, Edam, Caithness, Smoked Austrian, Japanese Sage Derby, Wensleydale, Greek Feta, Bouzoukia, Gorgonzola, Parmesan, Mozzarella, Pipo Crem', Danish Fynbo, Czech sheep's milk cheese, Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, Cheddar, Ilchester, and Limburger.
[And remember to put the cat outside, she likes the really runny fromages de la belle France.]
I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief .........
But never mind.
Everything you NEED to know about shavuos is on Bangitout:
http://www.bangitout.com/articles/viewarticle.php?a=2546
Which I discovered upon browsing into Am Kshe Oref's blog:
http://amksheoref.blogspot.com/
Which was immediately after reading some of Dovbear's stuff:
http://dovbear.blogspot.com/2009/05/your-shavuosrus-palooze.html
No, I did not stay up all night studying. But I feel like I did - I woke up coughing and itching with multitudes of hives in impossible spots. Here in San Francisco we're celebrating ALLERGY SEASON in lieu of all other periodic festivals. This tends to affect one's sleep. I can barely wait until our regularly scheduled programming resumes.
My exposure to creamy things this shavuos can be described as strictly Cortizone 10, Calamine, and Aveeno.
Oh, plus appreciation of San Francisco Cantonese girls, but that is year-round.
HAPPINESS IS WARM BODY CHEMISTRY
It was an enjoyable late lunch. And it included tofu, so the imaginary vegetarian would have been happy, as well as meat, so the very real c...
15 comments:
That's bit crook, Bruce.
Sometimes, however, it is hard to know witchlink is actually worthwhile.
Sometimes it's all a question of judgment, I guess.
Pointless excercises in linkage, really. Little elee than random link
s to timeless British zaniness.
And this all serves merely to highlight the existence of The Monty Python channel on Youtube: MontY!!!!Or cut-n-paste:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython
Check it out.
Cantonese girls??
So there's more than one in that apt of yours?
--Eugene Picklemurth
Sorry- I am boycotting Venezuelan Beaver Cheese because of the anti-semitism of Chavez's Veneuzela.
I was at a bat mitvah over the weekend, the blintzes were sobad I think that my mouth will not be pure enough for my mother's untilnext year.
A festival veritably built for the Bengali mthia wallah! Ras goolas, gulab jamoons, sandesh, barfee, kheer! All made with most excellent dairy prods. Indeed oh yes.
---Grant Sweetieman
Bugger Venezuelan beavers! We will have none of these!
---Grant Ballisticon
And that isn't REAL cheese.... it just smells allmighty like it!
Beware.
---Grant Peehoohoowee!
Cantonese girls??
So there's more than one in that apt of yours?
--Eugene PicklemurthThat would be nice. But ONE is hadfull enough.
There are several in my neighborhood, though, and their presence provides a stimulating frisson.
Telmac, sorry to hear about the bad blintzes. They really aren't hard to make. But they are hard to make badly.
We love Cantonese girls too! They wear the BEST panties! Hi Snooky!
---Grint Pintele
Lace and little butterflies! Yay! Oh yes, indeed.
--Grabbous Rumplestills
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