Well, I'd like to, but... no, actually if I could afford to go anywhere for Easter it would be Liverpool.
Georgia makes and exports excellent tea. Most of the "Russian" tea you used to see around in Cold War days was Georgian. You used to be able to buy it in Cambridge market, under the inspiring name of "Georgian tea". You'd like it. It's black tea that doesn't stew easily, so it's possible to have it strong without excessive tannin. You could possibly encourage large communal dining halls to invest in it, because it makes the only good urn tea in the world -- I discovered this on my trip to the Soviet Union in 1987. The random post-meal tea from huge samovars was always good, though clearly not fresh, and eventually I asked about it.
Their wine and champagne you might have to go to London for, though I can buy it in the Georgian deli up by Snowdon. There's also a Georgian restaurant there. Am I supporting the country if I eat there, or just some individual Georgians who left? I suppose if I eat there and drink their wine I am. I'll put them on my list of countries whose food I especially want.
It always cheers me, at times like this, to remember that my utter deprivation of grapes for winter after winter did eventually end apartheid, and my enthusiastic eating of Wensleydale cheese did save Hawes Creamery. Not just mine, of course, but mine too.
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Date: 2006-10-06 07:02 pm (UTC)Georgia makes and exports excellent tea. Most of the "Russian" tea you used to see around in Cold War days was Georgian. You used to be able to buy it in Cambridge market, under the inspiring name of "Georgian tea". You'd like it. It's black tea that doesn't stew easily, so it's possible to have it strong without excessive tannin. You could possibly encourage large communal dining halls to invest in it, because it makes the only good urn tea in the world -- I discovered this on my trip to the Soviet Union in 1987. The random post-meal tea from huge samovars was always good, though clearly not fresh, and eventually I asked about it.
Their wine and champagne you might have to go to London for, though I can buy it in the Georgian deli up by Snowdon. There's also a Georgian restaurant there. Am I supporting the country if I eat there, or just some individual Georgians who left? I suppose if I eat there and drink their wine I am. I'll put them on my list of countries whose food I especially want.
It always cheers me, at times like this, to remember that my utter deprivation of grapes for winter after winter did eventually end apartheid, and my enthusiastic eating of Wensleydale cheese did save Hawes Creamery. Not just mine, of course, but mine too.