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Saturday, June 09, 2012
 
– Да, да, я понимаю, но все-таки, что именно вы положили в это Четверговое блюдо?
– Да, да, я понимаю, но все-таки, что именно вы положили в это Четверговое блюдо?
– Ну а что там есть, по-твоему? – уклончиво сказала бабушка.
   Тетя Роза понюхала кусок на вилке.
– Говядина… или барашек? Имбирь… или это корица? Ветчинный соус? Черника? И, верно, немного печенья? Чеснок? Миндаль?
– Вот именно, – сказала бабушка. – Кто хочет добавки? Все?
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“Oh, it’s beautiful food all right. But what is this thing we’re eating?”
The lemonade stopped tinkling in the frosty glasses, the forks ceased flashing on the air and came to rest on the table.
[...]
“I call this our Thursday Special. We have it regularly.”
This was a lie.
In all the years not one single dish resembled another. Was this one from the deep green sea? Had that one been shot from blue summer air? Was it a swimming food or a flying food, had it pumped blood or chlorophyll, had it walked or leaned after the sun? No one knew. No one asked. No one cared.
[...]
“Yes, yes, but what did you put in this Thursday Special?”
“Why,” said Grandma evasively, “what does it taste like to you?”
Aunt Rose sniffed the morsel on the fork.
“Beef, or is it lamb? Ginger, or is it cinnamon? Ham sauce? Bilberries? Some biscuit thrown in? Chives? Almonds?”
“That’s it exactly,” said Grandma. “Second helpings, everyone?”
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Ray Bradbury (Рэй Брэдбери), Dandelion Wine (Вино из одуванчиков), 1957. The novel developed from the short story "Dandelion Wine" which appeared in the June 1953 issue of Gourmet magazine (1941–2009, RIP).  Dandelion Wine is Marianna Dizik's favorite Bradbury's book. 10 years after she read it, when we moved to US, it turned out that she cooks like that.  BTW, Gourmet magazine published a decent cookbook, posthumously. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion_Wine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandelion_Wine

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