Litsy

My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook | Nite Yun

Well this would be a challenge for true vegetarians. Most recipes center around pork/fish/chicken and even the recipes featuring tofu seem to use two kinds of fish (sauce and paste).

I'm not a good enough cook to make multiple substitutions work but I do eat fish, so I should be able to find one or two dishes that are manageable.

#Cambodia #FoodandLit

Sapphire I have started my book for Cambodia and started researching recipes too! Looking forward to fully engaging this year. 10h

SamAnne Was hoping to find this one at the library but no such luck. 9h

Liz_M @Texreader @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 8h

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Dilara

Une br�ve histoire du Cambodge | Fran�ois Ponchaud

I found this brief history of Cambodia on Everand, and downloaded it because I thought it would be a good idea to get a grounding on the history and culture of this month's country. I've only just started, but it looks promising 🌞
#Cambodia #FoodandLit @Texreader @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Pic of map found in the tagged book

Texreader A little known country for most of us! Great idea! 9h

Butterfinger Yes!!!! 8h

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I like to do the same! I found a series of books, Culture Smart!, that's available digitally through my library and whenever possible, read up on that month's country. I find it super helpful to learn the background and basics of each country. I'm going through mine for Cambodia now. 6h

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Between This World and the Next | Praveen Herat

Another #wordoftheday

“Every pane of glass in every building was obliterated. Heading directly into the sulfurous cloud above the ruins, he stumbled on a moraine of smoldering rubble, bruising his knees and searing his hands. Through the haze, three soot-covered ghosts emerged in front of him, each heaving the limb of a body bathed in vermilion.”

#foodandlit #Cambodia @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Butterfinger I only knew this one because of years teaching landforms. I wish I could share Krushchev's idiom to my students. 8h

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick This word is definitely new to me! 6h

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Between This World and the Next | Praveen Herat

“She has the Siemens washing machine she is always dreaming of. Come—you know what Khrushchev said. About the wet hen.”

It appears I‘ll be looking up lots of references in this book. I‘m glad it‘s an ebook!!

#foodandlit #Cambodia @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I would be looking up a lot of this, too, by the looks of it. Sometimes I look up familiar words just to make sure I'm correct in what I think the meaning is. 😆 19h

Texreader @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Same. Obviously we understand these words in context, but I‘ve been enjoying learning more specifics about words. 19h

Dilara Love it! 😄
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Between This World and the Next | Praveen Herat

#wordoftheday

“The acquisitiveness he would have sneered at in any Western friend he forgave in someone who had lived through Brezhnev‘s gody zastoya. Alyosha had queued for toilet roll in subzero temperatures. Supermarkets, salami, and chewing gum were magical to him.”

#foodandlit #Cambodia @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Wow! That's a mouthful! 19h

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Texreader

Between This World and the Next | Praveen Herat

The quote below makes more sense with the translation. I remember seeing the video of massive lines in the USSR and Brezhnev‘s bushy eyebrows when my parents watched the news in the 1970s

“The acquisitiveness he would have sneered at in any Western friend he forgave in someone who had lived through Brezhnev‘s gody zastoya. Alyosha had queued for toilet roll in subzero temperatures. Supermarkets, salami, and chewing gum were magical to him.”

Texreader #foodandlit #Cambodia @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 20h

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Dilara

A ta mort, ce sera � moi | Zerocalcare

This graphic work is ostensibly about a trip Zerocalcare and his father took to his family‘s original home village in the Dolomite Alps to sort out the ancestral home. It is cut with childhood memories, and the story of his great-grandfather and his friend in the First World War. All these help us make sense of the author‘s relationship with his father, ⬇
#Italy #FoodandLit @Texreader @Butterfinger @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick

Dilara ⬇his family history, Italian masculinity, and as always, his own personality and neuroses. Basically, it is Forget my Name for the paternal side of his family. I haven‘t found a Zerocalcare book I didn‘t like, and this book is no exception.

And now, I'm ready at last to move on to Cambodia!

pic of a page that shows the interesting way the translator chose to give us a feel for the Dolomites dialect (that is incomprehensible to the MC) in French

Zerocalcare's Forget My Name

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Butterfinger How awesome!!!! I have not heard of Zerocalcare books. 2d

Dilara @Butterfinger If you're interested, some of his books have been translated into English, and a couple were made into Netflix series😁 (edited) 2d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've not heard of Zerocalcare either. This sounds interesting. I'll be checking my library. 1d

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Texreader

Between This World and the Next | Praveen Herat