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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Decided on the Madrid -> London leg of my wife's long European work trip. Booked my flights, In Madrid from July9-15 then London July 15-21.

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Decided on the Madrid -> London leg of my wife's long European work trip. Booked my flights, In Madrid from July9-15 then London July 15-21.

see if you can eat your weight in ham that first week

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Yikes. I've been backing you up around here lately and this is the thanks I get?

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

wease wrote:Currently in the Uber from Orlando airport to our hotel. Hoping the hotel still gives us the discount since Mrs Wease forgot the photo ID needed at check-in…

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

haven't been there...what did you have?

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

haven't been there...what did you have?

We went to the location in Spitafields, and everything was vegetarian at the time. Got a bunch of stuff that was all great, but the Muhammara is what I remember. Knocked my socks off.

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

I'll put both of them on my list, but I have a few places there already that I like so I can't promise anything.

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

I'll put both of them on my list, but I have a few places there already that I like so I can't promise anything.

what are your places?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

I'll put both of them on my list, but I have a few places there already that I like so I can't promise anything.

what are your places?

The Punjab for Indian food
The Cow Pub
And we are going to some fancy steakhouse with her colleagues. Not sure the name of it.

spike wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

doug rr wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:please eat at st john in london...its quite something

Ottolenghi is better.

I'll put both of them on my list, but I have a few places there already that I like so I can't promise anything.

what are your places?

The Punjab for Indian food
The Cow Pub
And we are going to some fancy steakhouse with her colleagues. Not sure the name of it.

she'll put out if you take her to ottolenghi.