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derspatchel. We have been together for two years, engaged for one, and married for three months. That timeline continues to amaze me when I look at it. We will celebrate tonight, as is the custom, at the Friendly Toast.
According to the flyers we've been seeing around Davis Square, on Saturday March 15th—the Ides of March—the Somerville Arts Council is sponsoring a reenactment of the assassination of Julius Caesar in Union Square. Of course this is the sort of thing a person wants to attend, especially if a person brings olives and bread and the nearest contemporary equivalent to garum and sits around watching the stabbing with snacks. (Apparently there will be interactive events. We're hoping they include offering bystanders the chance to step up and take a whack, although that may not work unless Caesar is a piñata. Which is such an appealing idea I might be disappointed now if he's not.)
This year, the evening of the Ides is also the beginning of Purim. I believe there is an obvious next step. It involves graggers. Let Cassius' name be blotted out!
(I suspect we should not drink until we can't tell the difference between Cinna the conspirator and Cinna the poet, because that deck is stacked to begin with.)
Happy March! It's snowing!
derspatchel. We have been together for two years, engaged for one, and married for three months. That timeline continues to amaze me when I look at it. We will celebrate tonight, as is the custom, at the Friendly Toast.According to the flyers we've been seeing around Davis Square, on Saturday March 15th—the Ides of March—the Somerville Arts Council is sponsoring a reenactment of the assassination of Julius Caesar in Union Square. Of course this is the sort of thing a person wants to attend, especially if a person brings olives and bread and the nearest contemporary equivalent to garum and sits around watching the stabbing with snacks. (Apparently there will be interactive events. We're hoping they include offering bystanders the chance to step up and take a whack, although that may not work unless Caesar is a piñata. Which is such an appealing idea I might be disappointed now if he's not.)
This year, the evening of the Ides is also the beginning of Purim. I believe there is an obvious next step. It involves graggers. Let Cassius' name be blotted out!
(I suspect we should not drink until we can't tell the difference between Cinna the conspirator and Cinna the poet, because that deck is stacked to begin with.)
Happy March! It's snowing!
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I was thinking of Vietnamese or Korean fish sauce.
Thank you!
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That was all I could think of. Does it work on bread?
For some reason I've always imagined garum as having a thicker consistency than Southeast Asian fish sauce, but I don't know why it would. That image probably goes back to my childhood, when fish sauce that wasn't garum was something I'd only ever heard of in my father's war stories. I'm not sure at what point I made the connection between garum and nuoc mam.*
For that matter, I've never encountered Korean fish sauce. Is it very different to the Vietnamese or Thai variety?
*That's what my father has always called it. I get the impression that said name actually belongs to a compound dipping sauce that's made from fish sauce.