A trip report: vegetarian Staunton, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.
Derek and I recently spent Thanksgiving in Staunton, VA. We had a lovely time with his family and mine, but it seems we didn’t do much over the week except cook and eat! One notable exception was an excellent game of Wise and Otherwise, from which I learned the very deep African saying: “In the dreams of a chicken… barley is barley.” I also quite enjoyed Derek’s completion of the Dutch saying starting: “Coffee has…”. Although I correctly identified the correct saying (“Coffee has two virtues: it’s warm and wet”), I liked Derek’s version better: “Coffee has a black life, but a white death.”
See, I told you our trip was food-centric. Even the two sayings that I remember from Wise and Otherwise are food related! And now for the trip report… Read the rest of this entry »
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