24.12.1990

Dreams and emotions

Two anthology sayings (by American standards) are attributed to the most famous "clothes hanger". The first is "A woman can never be too thin, nor too rich". Another reads: "The best gifts come in the smallest package." Mrs. Simpson was, of course, referring to diamonds. Ordinary...

10.12.1990

Kafa

It is, of course, impossible to write any text, especially not this one about coffee, if there is no cup filled with this beverage on the table. In a personal version, cooking is a part of enjoyment, the essence of which is the four-century-old belief that the day begins with coffee, and not, as some think, with dawn. Therefore, in a kettle of boiling water, what...

03.12.1990

Writing letters

Letter writing may have fallen out of fashion in the age of telephone and electronic communication, but it can still be a source of intimate pleasure. No, the rule that personal letters must be written by hand, with an old-fashioned fountain pen, is no longer valid, a typewriter is perfectly acceptable for private correspondence, and, of course, ...

19.11.1990

Cocktails

Two thousand years of experimentation. Today's cocktails evoke the finest associations: catalysts of good mood, unobtrusive sophistication. It is a gentle reminder that despite everything, life can be a garden of roses... The cocktail reached its current status after only 2000 years of exp...

12.11.1990

Breeding a cat

Let's immediately put aside the variant in which you buy, get or inherit a cat, and let's just take the extreme one: you found the most wretched cat in the garbage, bathed it in baby shampoo, cleaned it of fleas and worms, took it to the vet, spent the night of her/his cat cough, discovered a favorite hr...

05.11.1990

The virtue of moderation

Alcoholism is a vice; hardly anything needs to be added to that. However, alcoholism is not the oldest - and by God, not even the most dangerous - vice: fornication is older and more dangerous: envy is older and much more dangerous. That's why - and not only that - something should be said in defense of alcoholism. The power of vice, namely, lies in the enjoyment that ...

29.10.1990

Why tea?

He only drinks tea. It means: it is no longer good for yourself or others. Tea is drunk by the Russians and the English, so the poor and eccentric. When you boil something in a lot of water, and that something is neither animal nor vegetable, nor fruit nor dirty laundry - you have made tea. Tea helps the sick mostly pedagogically: it makes them get better as soon as possible, as...