damn..i missed my calling. i shoulda learned to play the geetar and sing with a twang.
15th March 2008 02:38 PM
Fiji Joe
Celtic food isn't just meat and potatoes
Fifth annual Celtic festival takes place on St. Patrick's Day weekend in close proximity to pints of Guinness and everything Irish
Mia Stainsby , Vancouver Sun
It's not exactly historically, ancestrally, culturally, politically, or even culinarily correct, but when we think Celtic celebration, we think Irish pubs, a free flow of Guinness thickened with Irish stew.
What's wrong with that, you say? Nothing, really, except that it's not quite the whole shebang. (That last phrase, by the way, has an Irish origin, from the word shebeen, or dwelling.)
Celtic nations that have retained their Celtic languages and culture are Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany, as well as Ireland. But historically, Celtic ancestry stretches to northern Portugal and Spain.
Kali Thurber pours an Irish whisky to go with wheaten bread and a dish of calconnon (a potato dish) at The Shebeen Whiskey Bar at the Irish Heather in Gastown.
So while potato dishes, Irish stew and Guinness are certainly part of Celtic foods, so are haggis, Scotch eggs and kippers, deep-fried Mars Bar (a subtle Scottish creation), cider, galettes, prune clafoutis, Welsh cakes, Welsh rarebit and salt cod.
Meanwhile, the fifth annual Edgewater Casino CelticFest (March 12 to 16) takes place on St. Patrick's Day weekend in the downtown area in close proximity to Guinness and plentiful Irish food at Ceilli's Irish Pub, Morrissey's Irish House, Doolin's Irish Pub and Johnnie Fox's Irish Snug.
Sean Heather, who owns Gastown's Irish Heather and Shebeen Whiskey Bar (that's whiskey with an "e," unlike Scottish whisky) opines that the Irish Celts dominate because they are the largest Celtic group and a people who fought to foster their heritage, he feels.
"We [the Irish] worked our way free of British imperialism and fought to resurrect the culture and language. There are still towns in Ireland where Gaelic is the first language."
Steve McVittie, who operates The Celtic Treasure Chest Bakery And Deli in Vancouver and White Rock, points out that Celts all have their own special days of celebration. "Whether it's Robbie Burns Day, St. Patrick's Day or St. David's Day, each country has a patron saint and each celebrates their day with food and festivities," he says.
He sells British Celtic foods including various meat pies (Melton Mowbray, Cornish, Scottish bridies, pork pies, pasty's), bacons, haggis, sausages (Loren, Cumberland, Dubliner, pork and apple, lamb and mint), jams, preserves, candies, shortbreads, cookies, candies and marmalades. His breads span the Celtic nations -- hovis, Irish potato, soda, spelt, kamut, Aberdeen rowies, butteries, parkins and Scottish oatcakes.
And many of the items on his shelves have historical and cultural attachments. The canned baked beans, for example, were illegal to import into Canada until after the Second World War. "It was because of the ratio of beans to tomato sauce. The British like beans on toast and for the sauce to absorb into the toast, so there's more liquid."
Teas are totally different from North American teas.
"British teas are fuller-bodied. Irish Breakfast is very, very rich and strong. British tea drinkers can tell the difference and come out and buy 10 boxes at a time."
The British Butcher Shoppe in North Vancouver and John Bull British Bakery and Deli in Coquitlam are other shopping meccas for local Celts. There are some 30 different sausages covering Irish, Scottish and Welsh traditions at British Butcher. The shop sells "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of haggis, culminating in 2,400 pounds sold around Robbie Burns Day. "I might celebrate [on Robbie Burns Day] but I won't eat it," says owner Gerry Davenport.
15th March 2008 05:25 PM
Bloozehound
quote:Fiji Joe wrote:
The shop sells "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of haggis, culminating in 2,400 pounds sold around Robbie Burns Day. "I might celebrate [on Robbie Burns Day] but I won't eat it," says owner Gerry Davenport.
Isn't haggis like purreed goat lungs, kidneys and stuff like that
nasteee
15th March 2008 06:22 PM
PartyDoll MEG
15th March 2008 06:39 PM
PartyDoll MEG
15th March 2008 07:02 PM
MrPleasant
i don't wanna leave you on the farm
i don't wanna leave you on the farm
i don't wanna go
oh, just so ya know
i don't wanna leave you on the farm
days go by
and i'm still high
but you know
i'm thinkin' about you
corn's turned brown
the eves fall to the ground
it's a sound that reminds
me of you
i don't wanna leave you on the farm
i don't wanna leave you on the farm
i don't wanna go
oh, just so ya know
i don't wanna leave you on the farm
no telephone
to call you at home
i'm alone
on the throne
go get somethin'
hey, thanks for nothin'
i'll keep truckin'
and gettin' myself stoned
15th March 2008 07:09 PM
PartyDoll MEG
boot scootin'
15th March 2008 11:43 PM
GotToRollMe
COUNTRY
16th March 2008 01:12 AM
Ten Thousand Motels
16th March 2008 01:24 AM
Ten Thousand Motels
16th March 2008 02:31 AM
Bloozehound
quote:GotToRollMe wrote:
Far out, thats a great vid to ol Hank
Nice to see some fello country music appricianos
16th March 2008 02:35 AM
Bloozehound
quote:Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Thats Boss, ol' Robert Mitchum kickin ass runnin shine all over the place
16th March 2008 04:06 AM
Bloozehound
Don Williams ~ If Hollywood Don't Need You
16th March 2008 10:18 AM
PartyDoll MEG
As much as I love Hank and these old but dead country boys, time to recognize what we have now.
16th March 2008 10:21 AM
PartyDoll MEG
17th March 2008 01:35 AM
MrPleasant
17th March 2008 01:36 AM
MrPleasant
17th March 2008 01:45 AM
stonedinaustralia
the original from the 20/30s is the best but this from 65 ok
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