If you know nothing of chocolate, this is not for you.
Amboise
Wenn man in Frankreich aber außerhalb Paris sei….
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Don’t eat chocolate!
Norway’s secret
The northern passage
It is well known that an important ingredient in Norwegian culinary preparations is chocolate, but what are the origins of this practice?
We have to delve deeply into the oral traditions of the Lapp and Inuit peoples for the answer.
A typical traditional recipe (Finnbiff – Reinsdyrgryte – Reindeer Stew) prepared for the Norwegian palette may be as follows:
Continue readingWhen ruled by a banker
I posit an island, in which three people live: a farmer, a merchant and a banker.
I had been introduced to Take five some time ago.
On that former occassion the gentleman concerned wished to know the sum of two digits of two. During his enquiries he called upon a banker but was left somewhat perplexed by the banker’s response.
Take six shows us the consequences of what the banker tried to explain.
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The curious incident of which you have probably never heard
Ils disent que vous savez quand vous êtes arrivé dans la civilisation pour l’eau, puis on vous donne avec votre café. A Vienne, ils servent un verre d’eau avec votre café.
That of course is nothing to do with the following narrative, but it makes an interesting, if not arresting opening. The incident described in the the following notes arose on a bright sunny day in the early summer of 1982°. It is not an original invention.
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危险 (Wéixiǎn/In peril)
首被平原的管家
杨方 虽小,(它是)凶猛 Yáng fāng suī xiǎo,(tā shì) xiōngměng
la farouche
Orange
Not chocolate orange
Continue readingTax gaap: the impossible gap?
In life there are only two certainties: death and taxes.
So it was said, but in uncertain days an accountant might need some imagination.
It has often been said that GAAP (Generally accepted accounting principals) were introduced in order to ensure: certainty comparability correlation and correspondence
Continue readingNumbers cannot fail
In the ancient world, it is said, and in some modern people groups, counting was 1, 2, 3, many (not note 1 2 many). It has since long been known that there are three kinds of accountants in the world. Those who can count, and those who can’t.
I had been introduced to Take four a couple of years ago
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When something would be bought reminds Coco of the OSSIE story from the DDR era:
A woman is walking down the street and sees a queue outside a shop. Without another thought she joins the queue and proceeds slowly, but effectively to the counter, whereupon, being faced with an empty counter and not being entirely sure what might be being sold in the shop, she asks for a 100g, or however much she would be allowed to purchase if less, of cheese. The counter assistant replies with as much deference and respect as in the circumstance she can muster: I am sorry, Madam, we have no cheese. We are a butcher’s, and we have nothing to sell today. The queue across the road is for the shop that cheese to sell has none.