July 4th

 

Wednesday of 4th of July brought us a feeling of freedom. A freedom to enter the USA General Consulate official reception on the occasion of Independence Day. It was official and everything,  but the air of true American party was in the air for everyone to relax and enjoy the celebration. 

Five Star Brass band was rocking the floor with their outstanding life-performance this night. Music, delicious food and American freedom of talking to anybody you want in the reception hall - all of that was there to please each and every of very-important guests of American Consulate.

Thank you for this wonderful invitation! Thank you for the incredible feeling of openness you translate. Thank you for willing to collaborate and support the ideas and creativity. It was a great pleasure to get in touch with the celebration traditions of US here among Ural mountains, in Russia.

Thank to the blog we are in love with we were able to enjoy all the fun of 4th of July. It is only fare to pay back and write a new post today. Keep reading and you'll see one of the greatest cities in the World - New York with our excited eyes.

Googland

It is 10 years since the word “Google” quite fast turned from proper name to a verb. All over the world people use it as an invitation to look for answers in the Internet. The search may take you pretty much anywhere. But we took it to the Google village ourselves. So welcome!

Market News

The food is good. Good food is even better. Our little stewards – Fishka-cat and Eddie-rat are exploring the best combination of price and quality in local trade spaces. Some market news from them in case you are off to shop in the USA:

$14 smoked salmon fettucini

$2.50 croissant with spinach and feta cheese

$3.10 coffee mocha

$2 mango

$1.50 blueberry oatmeal muffin

$0.99 bunch of asparagus

$0.99 pack of strawberries

Are you a GREEN-go too?

Greener and greener an American go... With years it is become more and more trendy to care for your planet. In a good sense. It is nice.

It is everywhere. You go shopping for dinner. All those show-cases' around you are labeled with the rates from 1 to 5 grading the amount of humanity with which your future stake has been treated before it had become one. The highest grade would be given to the meat, which:

- have lived for its life at the same farm (no experience of transportation stress)
- have eaten just a fresh grass (no chemicals involved)
- have never been cut in any parts off while alive (ears, legs even horns).

"100% grass fed" - the label above the row of bright pink pork parts. You buy i and three hours later you feel simply happier for this piece of piglet at your plate. That peace in minds helps to digest things better too.

Some people go further. They decide don't eat meat at all. That is called vegetarian. Why do it? Because "there is not enough meat for everyone on the planet", "because of animal rights" and finally it comes - "it feels good".

That was a BBQ party in Brooklyn last week. We were discussing food there. And a big, smart and very nice in all senses guy was saying: "You know, I love meat. All those kinds of it, the color, the smell.. just mouth-watering!.. But you eat your burger and after two hours you feel broken and stuff! You want to sleep, you don't wonna move... And on the other side you eat only this spinach and you got all this energy, just like a superman!".

Anyways... whether you are a vegetarian or you are a meat lover, if you want maximum from your food, you have got to learn this word - nutrition. Where nutrition if simply is all vitamins, minerals and fibres in the product. And the more you get it per calorie, better for you. This figure would be called ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index). And let me tell you that the kale has 1000 ANDI-points, when your soda-drink scores only 1 of those. Go figure!