Lucullian delights
Ilva, I was born in Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and we also have specific names for members or our respective parents families. You are right it is much easier to know who is who. Vida x
Mmmm lovely, what a good combination.
I agree, lovely to be part of a family. My favourite cousin, and she really is my cousin, is actually the wife of my husband's first cousin on his father's side (to satisfy your Swedish precision) - so no relation, but she's my favourite of all my cousins. When challenged about precision, we say that we are medieval cousins, because I think the word was more vague then, in English anyway!
Joanna x
I love the 2nd photo. The pears look yummy too!
Oh, they look delicious. I must try them this week-end.
i like these easy/tasty recipes ! Thank you Ilva
Ilva, I was looking for a dessert featuring pears. I think I just found it!
Pears look delicious,
I am the only one in our family who can keep track of whether a cousin is a first cousin twice removed or a second cousin once removed and I quite enjoy the intricacies of it all ... probably because we don't have all that many cousins altogether!
Oh these pears just remind me of autumn! Coincidentally, I was looking for cardamom in my pantry to make something and realize I don't have any!
Yay! I love your cardamom recipes! You're my go-to girl for anything cardamom! It's funny you should talk about Italian family and the names they use - in Mike's family, not only are there aunts and uncles (and called so on both sides) but everyone has the same names! It's Mike and little Mikey, Jim and little Jimmy, Aunt Theresa and Aunt Theresa...it goes on and on! It makes it tough to memorize who is who!!
So yummy, these pictures! Another great cardamom addition.
Vida-yes it is! I can feel pretty lost sometimes!
Joanna-too complicated, let's go for the medieval!
Maryanne-Thanks!
Britt-yes do, and tell me what you think!
Corinne-me too, saves a lot of time!
breadchick-Oh I hope you'll like it!
Kit-I understand you but I have something like 25 -30 cousins so you can imagine how that would be like....
veron-best to get some immediately!
Michelle-thanks! I'm someone's cardamom girl! And that sounds good to me who never remembers people's names!
aagje-Thanks!
This is such a lovely combination, flavours as well as photo shoot. Soothing is the word that comes to mind.
Hmm, those names.. My grandmother was born in a tiny place where everybody was named after their father/mother, so Michelles example comes close, they just added helpfull hints like "red Charles from Charles with the leg" (a redhead fathered by a man with an injured leg) We children had lots of fun listening to Granny and her friends.
Oh Ilva I do want those pears!! Look so good.
I always wonder about what things are given stronger attention in different languages. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow, I have no need for so many different words for snow. But the family name thing seems different somehow.
I like Karen's comment about red Charles from Charles with the leg. . . that would be interesting for anybody.
karen-I love that way of describing people! It reminds me of the nicknames they give people here, very descriptive!
Tanna-Yes language is a very interesting thing to look at, it really reflects the society where it is used!
it was quite interesting to hear about your linguistic dilemma.
i understand.
Maninas-It's so good to know that I'm not alone in this dilemma!
It gets worse in some languages. In French they use the same prefixes for step-family -- as in step-sister, step-mother, etc. -- as for in-laws: belle- and beau-. (Which is rather sweet, really.)
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