News You Can Bruise for September 01, 2003

Mon Sep 01 2003 10:44:

Sumana gave me an old book, The History Of Popular Culture Since 1815. It's one of those old Books Of Concern, or maybe it's a textbook (it has a UIUC bookstore sticker on it). There are a bunch of interesting essays in it, such as one called "Gargantuan Victorian Meals" which lays out the menu for "twelve to fourteen persons":

FIRST COURSE
- Two Potages.
  - Good Woman's Soup, dite flamande, white and thick.
  - Soup a la beauveau, brown and clear.
- Two Fishes.
  - Turbot with lobster sauce.
  - Slices of crimped salmon, boiled, with same sauce.
- Two Removes.
  - Turkey a la perigeaux, puree of chestnut.
  - Leg of mutton roasted.
- Six Entrees.
  - Cutlets of mutton braised with soubise suace.
  - Salmi of young partridges a la Espagnole.
  - Vol a vent of salt fish a la maitre d'hotel.
  - Casserole of rice with puree of game.
  - Saute of fillets of fowl a la lucullus, with truffles.
  - Fillets of young rabbits a la orlies, white sharp sauce.
SECOND COURSE
- Two Roasts.
  - Three partridges roasted.
  - Three woodcocks.
- Six Entrements.
  - Spinach with consomme, garnished with fried bread.
  - Whole truffles with champaign [sic].
  - Jelly of marasquino.
  - Buisson of gateau a la polonaise.
  - Charlotte of apples with apricot.
- Two Removes of the Roast.
  - Biscuit a la creme.
  - Fondus.

More gems from the past coming soon. (What is a "remove"?)

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Mon Sep 01 2003 12:56 Pictures from EuroPython:

Here they stand, 83 in number, your EuroPython/Belgium/Amsterdam pictures! My favorites:

A good picture of ~~Prusti~~Taina and Jarno, and Jarno plotting something in Amsterdam.
My hotel room was about twice the size of my cubicle at work. At first I thought this was way too small, but over time I began to sympathize with my Belgian captors.
My attempt at duplicating from memory the picture of Rachel by the Manikin Pis. Prusti took a picture of me attempting to duplicate Rachel's other picture from Brussels, the "scarfing down a waffle" picture", but I don't have it yet.
For Danny, some surreptitiously-taken NTK T-shirt sightings: 1 2
My attempt at nature photography: a spiderweb on a footbridge in Amsterdam.
Signs: a dinosaur, the world's most confusing road sign, a woman who should just put the fish down, a great store name, and a liquid tot. (I hate to spoil this by telling you, but that last sign actually says "Liquidation Totale" and part of it is covered up by the graffitti-ridden corrogated metal anti-theft device.)
Remember that one-inch square of text in Time magazine about the Dutch-designed urinal that had a fly painted on it to encourage good aim? Well, the urinals in the conference center in Charleroi had that fly.
At around 2 AM on Belgian TV, they broadcast Missile Command-esque typing games. Why don't they just play the national anthem and call it a night?

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News You Can Bruise for 2003 September 1