Ruphus -> RE: my photos of the week 71 - Lake Lugano (Sep. 25 2015 10:55:24)
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And pike, if it is like in the Lago Maggiore. Man, did I try to catch one. Nothing but some whitefish. All while I was able to fish from right at the water. And just when I had given up, friends told me of a guy in the know who had come and thrown his bait from the distance of a public sight point. Within half an hour he pulled out a big pike, took it and left. - Got to say though that I need compagnion to kill the fish. Already mean to take out the hook and put them in a bucket of water. - Bill, lemon? Why not ketchup? Should be just as good to suppress fish flavour. brrrr [:-] - Thursday, my guitar student told me of a music theorist who said to him how rock music compared like simple trash to classical music. Me then said something to the extend that there can be beauty in both complexity and simplicity. For an example pointing to the two cuisines most known for their delicious dishes; the French and Italian one. The first one shining with its refiness and knowledge of how to produce, combine and prepare, the second one for its talent to bring forward great taste in simple ways. And when I would return from the Lago Maggiore (all fruits and vegetables harvested ripe from own garden) or even from Como (commercial supply, yet so rich in taste) the eating in Germany (mass products, largely from Holland´s green houses) would appear so pale for a while. If you pardon my OT excursion into the field of rich taste, I´d like to add that in fact fruits from here can be of extremely rich flavour. (Grapes alone, so honey sweet and flavoured like I havn´t seen anywhere. Maybe no coincidence that vine was "invented" / found in these realms.) But with my bad luck there is hardly a benefit from it. Almost all of its finest quality is being exported to the rich Arabs where it is ranked as top product, whilst the remains on local market are either rubbish or exclusive (kg prices between 5 and 25 bucks) or both in the same time. If I could sit in an Italian Trattoria overlooking one of these lakes and only just nibble away that fresh bread and butter served beforehand, I would be in heaven. Darn, Simon, I am jelous! And besides, I forgot to congratulate for the publishing. Great to have one´s shots used commercially! Ruphus PS: I was researching on real estate prices in Italy some years ago (for a humble budget). There seems not even any remote rural province left over where one could obtain some ruin for decent money. All totally inflated market pricings, probably even in Apulia (where food production and cuisine isn´t as developed. -Though their pottet artichoke hearts in olive oil are to die for!). Guess the only regions where it could be affordable would be way down in the south, where poverty in conjunction with Arabic influenced mentality could make it unlikely to be left alone.
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