Simon MajumdarApr 23, 2023

While @sybil is in the Philippines posting her market finds, I’ve got a recipe I can share for the bitter gourd (aka ampalaya in the Philippines and karela in India).

https://www.simonmajumdar.com/bitter-gourd

#Recipe #Cooking #BitterGourd #Vegetarian #Karela #Ampalaya #Gourd #Recipes #VegetarianRecipe #FoodTravel #Philippines #India #IndianFood

Simon Majumdar - Bitter Gourd

Simon Majumdar's Bitter Gourd Recipe.

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mostaleohtDec 11, 2022

Not all #Russians are... #Russian. For two simple reasons, both related to #colonialism:

1) Many people could identify as very different folks, but are pressed, or used to, identify as russians. This is true even for 100% non-russian people (think #Tver #Karela as an extreme example), but many (most?) people in post-USSR also have mixed ancestry. Yet were always societally pressured to identify as Russians.

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2. Only #Tat is called #CrimeanTatar, while #Nogai and #Urum is shown as separate languages, and #Yalıboylu is called "Crimean Turkish". This is a bold move that I kinda like (usually they are gathered under an umbrella term of Crimean #Tatar identity), and it's unusual.
3. Similarly nicely, central #Karelian in relation to #Livvik and #Lude (although #Tver #Karela are marked as simple Karelian)
4. #Polesian is shown as a separate #language, which is cool! (It's a transitional BY-UA #dialect)