Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> Likely. We are subject to the elements in a
 ML> >  ML> quaintly old-fashion way, which, if we were to
 ML> >  ML> cast our bread on the impersonal waters of the
 ML> >  ML> Internet, would be mostly negated.
 ML> > And those who depend on electronics in one form or another would be
 ML> up

 ML> That being most of us!

Need to depend on them to be able to read this. (G)

 ML> > the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.

 ML> For sure, and it's another set of reasons why people
 ML> should keep up the knowledge of how to make change,
 ML> look both ways before crossing, and write longhand.

All skills that I posses. I also know how to dial a rotary phone and
balance a check book.

 ML> >  ML> imparted most of the facts. Newsday, which as I
 ML> >  ML> recall was the Long Island newspaper of choice,
 ML> >  ML> struck a decent balance.
 ML> > Nobody in our area sold that one. It was the Times or Daily News for
 ML> NYC > papers, plus the locals and regionals. Food sections were
 ML> interesting > reading, would have been more so now as my tastes have
 ML> matured.

 ML> I don't know about the Daily News; the more genteel people,
 ML> Clementine Paddleford at the Trib and Craig Claiborne were
 ML> the ones whose writing and recipes I read. The next generation
 ML> of food critics were people I knew and their friends, and then
 ML> le deluge, the youngsters born in the '50s, '60s, and beyond,
 ML> from most of whom there was little to be learned, and why
 ML> bother reading?

I had to read what was available, which was the Times. We didn't get the
local daily paper (parents did buy it some years after I left home) and
the weeklies had no food section.


 ML> >  ML> >  ML> That tends to get me upset as well, but Harvard boys
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> can take care of themselves, by and large.
 ML> >  ML> > Harvard girls also?
 ML> >  ML> In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
 ML> >  ML> The instruction was the same, the endowments different.
 ML> > Quite so. (G)

 ML> Now they're one, with the original Radcliffe resources
 ML> funneled into an "institute" that encompasses a few
 ML> symposia, a library of early women's stuff (largely
 ML> cookbooks), and to my knowledge not much else.

Good for those that want to go into women's studies in one area or
another. Maybe if they have some issues of "Goody's Ladies Book" for
fashions and suchlike design students would find interesting.

 ML> >  ML> so nearby women's college (maddest folly going) was a
 ML> >  ML> source of intelligent poised marriage bait, similar to the
 ML> >  ML> situation with Wellesley College and Harvard/Radcliffe and
 ML> >  ML> its 4:1 ratio.
 ML> > The college I went to was co-ed from the beginning.

 ML> Enlightened.

It was founded as an alternative to the taverns and such like visited by
the canalers in the area.

 ML> >  ML> > That being one of them. Dosvedanya (spelled phonetically) is
 ML> >  ML> another, > and the standard da & nyet.
 ML> >  ML> Pretty much all I have except for the usual food terms.
 ML> > So you could get something to eat but not navigate your way around
 ML> > Moscow? Actually, if the city had color coded transportation lines,
 ML> you > could get around--to some extent.

 ML> I could navigate Moscow because I can transliterate Cyrillic,
 ML> slowly. Plus the underground is in fact color-coded.

Color coding is a big help, unless you're color blind. (G) I've never
gotten into Cyrillic so have no idea how to transliterate or translate
it.

 ML> >  ML> > This was cute. I'd try it out on grandkids but they're all
 ML> beyond >  ML> the > Sesame Street age of appreciation (or will be,
 ML> youngest will be >  ML> 6 next > month). Not sure when we'll be seeing
 ML> them again.
 ML> >  ML> It will happen for sure, sometime.
 ML> > I know, just trying to figure when that might be. We do get snaps on
 ML> fb > and text quite often so have (sort of) kept up that way but it's
 ML> not
 ML> > like being there.

 ML> Counting the hours and the minutes, too ... .

That would work if we knew when we were going to see the kids again. We
did see Rachel's, via Face Time, (or some other phone chat, not sure
what Steve ended up connecting with) the other day.


 ML> Roast Muscovy Duck
 ML> categories: game, poultry, main
 ML> servings: 2 to 4

 ML> 1 Muscovy duck (4 lb)

Presumably some other type of duck would work if you couldn't get a
Muscovy?


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