Eat, Pray, Love

Il ya trois semaines j'ai regardé le film Eat, Pray, Love. C'était quelque chose que je suis vraiment heureuse j'ai regardé parce que je pense il a reconnu que beaucoup de mes propres peurs dans le film. Peur de ne pas voyager, de ne pas être heureux, de ne pas tomber en amour. Il était tout le genre de enveloppé dans une boule de beurre séveux d'un film, mais avec suffisamment d'éléments philosophiques et de pensée des scènes provoquant pour lui donner un air intellectuel. J'ai vraiment aimé ça et il était heureux que je l'ai regardé pour la première fois sur le mien. Cela m'a permis de pleurer et rire librement dans et laissez-moi penser à ma propre vie et la nature de ce que je veux de lui, bien à l'âge de quinze ans, je peux vraiment savoir ce que je veux?

About three weeks ago I watched the movie Eat, Pray, Love. It was something I was really happy I watched because I think it recognized a lot of my own fears in the movie. Fear of not traveling, of not being happy, of not falling in love. It was all kind of wrapped up into one sappy butter ball of a movie but with enough philosophical elements and thought provoking scenes to give it an intellectual air. I really loved it and was happy that I watched it for the first time on my own. It allowed me to cry and laugh freely throughout and let me think about my own life and kind of what I want from it, although at the age of fifteen, can I really know what I want?

Anyways, the reason I bring the movie up is because there were several mouth-watering scenes of Julia Roberts feasting on food in foreign countries. Below, I've compiled a list of foods that I want to try in every country I hope to travel to one day. I will admit that I'm not the person who tends to jump at the chance to try duck liver (foie gras), and more so the person who likes to enjoy warm, comfort type, foods.

To start of with, I've always wanted to go to Ireland. In fact, my mom and I are supposed to take a trip there the summer I turn eighteen, since I made her promise to take me when I was like eight. And although I've never tasted it, I have a sneaking suspicion that I won't be a sheep/goat eating person, nor do I believe I will be interested in anything stomach and/or vital organ related, i.e. haggis. But there is one dish that I really would love to try and that is champ potatoes (also known as poundies), a potato dish that has chopped up scallions in it, and, of course, Irish coffee.

In France, I would love to try authentic french bread, a type of French cheese, perhaps boursin cheese, and champagne.

 In Italy I am dying to try authentic Italian pizza, tiramisu, cannolis, and Italian ice cream or gelato.

In Spain they serve a lobster dish called Langosta, which is made with Spiny Lobster and usually served with some sort of sauce. For dessert, Spain serves a dish very similar to crème brûlée, called crema catalana.

Truthfully, while there are many Mediterranean countries I want to visit, I'm not a big fan of Mediterranean food so with Greece, it took me a while to find something that I would eat, but, of course, I did manage to find several desserts that looked extremely appealing. The first are kourabiedes, which is a kind of cookie made from kneading flour, butter and roasted almonds and then dusted with powdered sugar. The second dessert is called loukoumades and are fried balls of dough that are covered in honey and cinnamon. The last picture is a shot of a piece of Milopita, very similar to apple pie.

Now, I'm no more interested in eating some fluffy sheep's innards in Scotland than in Ireland, so as with Ireland, I'm looking to try something a little less meat oriented, like millionaires shortbread, for example. I'd also really like to try Hot Toddy or Hot Buttered Rum, which looks delicious.

Germany has been termed the "bread country" which translates to "Marissa country". I love bread! While in Germany I will be having Brezels (pretzels), Brötchen (a small round roll), german schokolade (chocolate!), and edel (beer made with a very high quality variety of hops).

In Russia I want to try perogie's, similar to raviolis in that it's dough wrapped around some sort of meat or cheese, and white Russian cupcakes, which have Kahlua and vodka in the icing and the batter.

In New Zealand I want to try pavlova and mille-feuille, which actually originated in France, but is very popular in New Zealand. It's a sort of custard filled pastry and looks delicious!

I actually have a friend that was a foreign exchange student from Thailand. I couldn't stay the whole time for her going away party, so she made me a bunch of Thai food and gave it to me for lunch at school the next day. It was so nice of her, and it was so good! The chicken (which had cashews sprinkled in it), especially, was my favorite, so for sure, if I ever go to Thailand, I'll be sure to try it again. I'm not really sure what kind of chicken it was but I'm guessing that it was spicy chicken. Also, while I'm there, besides dropping in on my friend, Stop, I want to try Pad Thai (a friend really recommends it), and Thai coconut ice cream.



In Australia, I want to try ANZAC biscuits, a kind of sweet biscuit, and Vegemite is a slightly bitter food paste. That probably sounds super gross but it's supposed to be pretty big in Australia.

In China I want to try authentic Chinese fried rice, hamamatsu gyoza (dough stuffed with some sort of meat), and bow ties (a popular sweet, deep-fried dessert).

In India I want to try Indian rice and chapati (flat bread).

In Indonesia, specifically Bali, I would like to try spicy rice salad with shrimp and chili, and pancong, which is a kind of coconut cake.

In Luxembourg I want to taste gromperekichelcher, a kind of spicy potato pancake, and miel luxembourgeois de marque nationale, which is their national brand of honey.

In England I want to try fish and chips, bubble and squeak, a vegetable based dish, and banoffee pie.

In Switzerland I want to try brunsli, a kind of brownie, apfelküchlein, a deep fried apple cookie usually served with vanilla sauce, and salat, which is really just salad but, apparently, is very big in Switzerland and is usually served with three or four different kinds of dressing.

Austria has a lot of fruit related desserts and other dishes so all of the following would be in chocolate form for moi; palatshinken, a crepe like dessert, Viennese hot chocolate, and wiener eiskaffee, which is essentially an iced mocha.

In Egypt I want to try mahshi, which is similar to stuffed bell peppers, du'a, a mixture of nuts and herbs, and kahk, a shortbread biscuit covered in icing.

In Turkey I want to try simit, a bread covered in sesame seeds and Turkish delight, which did in fact originate in Turkey, or more specifically the Ottoman Empire.

In the Bahamas I want to try conch chowder, which is similar to clam chowder, but conch meat tends to be firmer and less slimy.

In Japan I want to try wagashi, Japanese confections made from all natural ingredients, and somen, which is wheat noodles that tend to be very popular during the summertime in Japan.

While I was in Victoria we went to this ice cream shop that I've been to every time we've visited. It's this cute little place and the ice cream is fantastic! The place is called Oh Gelato and they serve Italian ice cream there. The way they set up the ice cream is what makes it so adorable!

Also, real quick, I decided that for my marketing class, I would just write the post and then preview it instead of posting it. I might post it sometime in the future when I can edit it a little more but for now it will remain in the rough draft box.

French word of the day: Cuisine, which is the French word for food.

Au Revoir!

"Cookery is as old as the world, but it must also remain, always, as modern as fashion." - Phileas Gilbert.