... streets are invaded by a fleet of chairs and tables. The town turns into a gigantic restaurant, steeped in the smoke from the grilled meats. This place emanates a definite festive character.
Just south ...
... stone, designed according to a rigorous rationalistic style. Opposite stands the graceful church, with more classical curved lines but still permeated by the simplicity of modernism. Then the school and ...
... they were newly wed, the landlord gave them a special treat for dinner. He complained he had only potatoes to give them, but he had tucked a slice of precious meat for each under a lump of mash.
The ...
... night in Plovdiv an Italian chap had just finished telling me he had eaten the biggest dinner ever when all of a sudden we were presented with a dish of grilled meat and salad. We looked at each other, ...
... meats wafts around restaurants and the terraces of cafes are crowded by punters that spend leisure time in the shady areas sipping coffee and smoking heavily.
The Church
This afternoon I met another ...
... time in Ethiopia recently, I know well how people are expected to abstain from not just meat, but also eggs and milk every day during Lent and on Wednesdays and Fridays the rest of the year.
Not ...
... of the topping. It’s my well-deserved break from the past days of ingera with tough meat stripes (tibsi), something I’ve grown fed up with.
In the late afternoon I go for a second stroll to the market, ...
... inedible meat. This was how the couple had decided to meet the African continent: by perpetrating destruction and depredation that only a humanly fragile environment can cede to when money is tendered, ...
... her ways. We are then given bowls of rice and stewed meat in gravy.
Back in Litang I walk to the monastery, past street groups of people playing cards or passing the time of day or turning a big prayer ...
... change the menu in observance of my personal eating habit that bans meat on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My paella recipe is all seafood and fish, and doesn’t contain any rabbit or chicken that are ...
... with a deep aversion to preying on other animals and contrary to eating meat, which has prompted him to become a vegetarian living on grasses and berries. Layla (or Little red hood), on the contrary, is ...
... in the name given to a nearby commercial centre.
Coming from a Saturday night multiple birthday party, I'd like to have made good use of a slice of roast meat to fill a sandwich for my lunch, but make ...
... door, a delicious Friday meal of rice, mlukhiyye, boiled meat, rocket and bamia, all sorts of good things. In the meantime she converses from inside her door and also asks the girls questions about me, ...
... burning. He then takes out these discs of excellent scorched bread with a hook and piles then on the side. He's choking in the smoke from the meat grill and I too have to move if I don’t want to get smoked. ...
... of rotting meat… I was very much prejudiced on account of these rumours, but I didn't think this description was adequate at all. You certainly have to overcome an initial sense of repulsion due to the ...
... an unhealthy touch to the rather uninviting scene of sellers offering the land’s produce and meat in hampers along the street. In some baskets I thought I saw black eggs, maybe fermented or processed God ...
... but I don't go into the actual compound that has a rather uninviting entrance. There are in fact two counters covered with meat cuts full of flies and in the passageways between the stalls I could catch ...
... waiting. The driver has got nervous and has gone for a walk. Comes a pan with meat and vegetables and I'm invited to have a snack. If I stop for a while, the grandmother spurs me on: "Come on, eat, sweetheart!" ...
... since birth. She reiterates a literally overpowering invitation to dinner at her house, saying I must meet her husband.
Preparations for dinner are soon under way: of course it'll be grilled meats. Another ...
... closed, being today Sunday, but some are working and I notice those that sell dried meat, a speciality of the place.
I am accosted by some carpet seller's tout and ask him for directions to get to the ...