Oh You Can Kiss Me On A Monday

Tonight Anthony Bourdain is in the Greek Islands of Crete and Ithaca. My people! So far he has slaughtered a sheep, cooked it with salt only over an open flame while drinking raki which he said was deadly. It is by the way, so is Ouzo. It will put you on your ass. Unless, like me, you are Greek. He has eaten fresh sea urchin, been schooled on the importance of being olive oil, and hunted quail and rabbit. With more raki and retsina.

He is exploring greens, aka any growing green edible "weed" that we like to eat. Growing up I used to wander around irrigation ditches in farmland Utah with my grandfather looking for wild asparagus and weeds.

Oh look, I can do that dance. Toss in a trip to Ithaca with tiny fresh fish cooked on a beach in what looks to me like a stifado type base. Yum.

Now it is Micahel Palin's New Europe. He is in Eastern Europe - Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Herzegovina. Another childhood memory, Michael Palin's Great Railway Journeys which I credit with instilling in my the whole "Going Native" tendency. Particularly the India section. India has long been the pinnacle of travel wishes. That and Egypt, although I think the Middle East is out of the question for Americans for a long time.

Now we come to the freaky part of the Starr show. Kidlet and decided to throw caution to the wind and try a Neti Pot for nasal irrigation. Not to gross you all out with the details since I think it is self explanatory, I can say that wow did this work. Really really well. And our sinuses feel better. It has been so cold and so dry that when added to a sinus cold you can just imagine what that feels like. Kidlet was, and I quote, "scared shitless" of the whole concept but once she tried it she was hooked. If you have allergies or sinus congestion or a bad stuffy head cold I highly recommend investing in one. It ran me 17 bucks at New Seasons and whatever a quarter teaspoon of table salt costs. Freaky, yes, effective, yes.

Oh Shit. Guess what is stuck in my head?