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View Article  More on Turkish coffee
I've made it by feel in the past, but I looked for methods for Turska Kava preparation on the Net anyway. The best was this extensive "tutorial" -- also the top "Turkish coffee" hit on Google.
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/turkishcoffee/

The worst was this Food Network entry, unattributed to any show:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_1852,00.html
One foaming only, medium roast instead of dark, and no mention of the coffee being anything other than an ordinary grind!

Ulysses discovered that the bottom canister of the Turkish coffee grinder was the perfect storage case for bows from Christmas present wrapping. Up to two bows fit inside, if you push really hard. If you have very small fingers and hands, it's convenient to reach all the way into the bottom of the canister to retrieve   more »
View Article  Christmas coffee

Merry Christmas! Donald got me a Turkish coffee grinder. I've been wanting one for years. This one is brass and made in India. You turn the crank and pulverize whole beans into a fine dust. Finally, we can have freshly ground Turkish/Serbian coffee at home, like I remember from Yugoslavia and from so many Serbian households in America.  Why not just use an electric coffee grinder?

It doesn't work. You can run that thing all day, and once the coffee is chopped (it's not truly ground in those little whirling-blade devices) down to a certain size, it won't get any ...   more »
View Article  Vanilice: Serbian holiday cookies
Today I brought a platter of these cookies to the James Reeb Unitatian Universalist Congregation's Holiday Bake Sale. I wrote up the recipe, and the story of how I came to the recipe, and took it along. I sold the cookies for 50 cents -- 3 for a dollar -- and the recipes for a buck!

The cookies sold out. Selling the recipes made it so I could raise more $$ for the church than with just the cookies alone!

One parishoner is part Croatian. She remembered vanilice as her favorite cookies, that her grandmother used to make. She said ...   more »
View Article  Six-String Samurai
Here's a post-apocalyptic road movie created straight from the heart. The score is terrific -- an ideological and artistic mash-up of 50's rock and Sputnik-era Soviet optimism. Mad Max meets Shane meets Viva Las Vegas.

Even addresses the modern-era martial-arts-movie question of "Why doesn't somebody just shoot him?"

Clearly a labor of love for everyone involved.

Enjoy.
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