Babka extravaganza

[magnetic_pole]

* The better half and I are back in our tiny college town in New England after a summer in the big city, and I can hardly believe it's all over. In a fit of enthusiasm for foods not available at our local grocery store (or extremely expensive here), we shopped up a storm and took home no fewer than twenty-four bags. (Which, of course, included clothes and my books and files, but still.) Among our treasured acquisitions: cinnamon and chocolate babkas (mmm!), oyster and hoisin sauce, tofu (why tofu is as expensive as steak here, I don't know), curry paste, mole, and digestive biscuits (from Chinatown, where they cost a fraction of what they sell for in British food stores).

What do you think, flist? Are there any foods you like so much you buy them when you travel or have friends send them to you?

* On the fannish side of things: two short HP fics I've enjoyed this week: the and yes i said yes i will yes by honey_wheeler (Weasleys; PG-13, 6100 words). Summary: Love, life, death, and Weasleys. Nuanced and beautifully written. Also the snippet a little silhouetto of a man by girl_tarte (Lupin/Snape, PG-13, 2000 words). Summary: some shit is about to go down in the shrieking shack. All the sensual detail and psychology that never made it into canon.

* Also, we're discussing Trembling Before G-d this week at lgbtq_recs-- come join us!

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Comments

[magnetic_pole]

Heh. You know I had to look up both those items, right? (Apericube has a facebook page, by the way. Go figure.) Ah, what did we do before the internet? M.

[liseuse]

Hehe. I always forget they aren't a regular part of people's lives. I had a friend at uni whose mother was French and she would always send him Apericubes, and my father would send me them. We used to swap with each other the flavours we didn't like.

[magnetic_pole]

I always love foods that come in so many flavors or colors you can swap. Then you get the joy of deciding the order in which to eat them in addition to the joy of eating them. M.

[liseuse]

It really is all kinds of awesome when you can do that. It may be the reason that when I bake I always do three kinds of everything.