request for bleeding edge culinary suggestions

[Mark Thibodeau]

Remind people of the Montreal section (pp 88-89) by bringing a platter
of dessert crepes, poutine, and Montreal-style pizza (complete with
difficult to identify sausage).

YOPJerky

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:49 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Scroll down for tongue polonaise recipe:
>
> http://cooking.marcgottlieb.com/2012/03/pesach-menu-meat/
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Petto
> Sent: Mar 23, 2014 11:43 AM
> To: pynchon -l
> Cc: David Morris
> Subject: Re: request for bleeding edge culinary suggestions
>
> Kugel & blintzes sounds fantastic.
>
> Casserole dishes are great for groups, and ricotta cheese blintzes smothered
> in fresh strawberries (can I get some now?) is SO much more appealing than
> cheese danishes.
>
> Thanks!
>
>    Peter++
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 23, 2014, at 11:16 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Kugel & blintzes?
>
> Kugel:
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel
>
> Blintz:
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blintz
>
> Kugelblitz:
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
>
> In theoretical physics, a kugelblitz (German: "ball lightning", not to be
> confused with ball lightning) is a concentration of light so intense that it
> forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped: according to general
> relativity, if enough radiation is aimed into a region, the concentration of
> energy can warp spacetimeenough for the region to become a black
> hole(although this would be a black hole whose original mass-energy had been
> in the form of radiant energy rather than matter). In simpler terms, a
> kugelblitz is a black hole formed from energy as opposed to mass. According
> to Einstein's general theory of relativity, once an event horizon has
> formed, the type of mass-energy that created it no longer matters. A
> kugelblitz is so hot it surpasses thePlanck temperature, the temperature of
> the universe 5.4×10-44 seconds after The Big Bang.
> The best-known reference to the kugelblitz idea in English is probably John
> Archibald Wheeler's 1955 paper "Geons",[1] which explored the idea of
> creating particles (or toy models of particles) from spacetimecurvature.
> Wheeler's paper on geons also introduced the idea that lines of electric
> charge trapped in a wormhole throat might be used to model the properties of
> a charged particle-pair.
> A kugelblitz is an important plot element inFrederik Pohl's novel Heechee
> Rendezvous.
>
> On Sunday, March 23, 2014, Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com> wrote:
>>
>> The book club I'm in will be discussing Bleeding Edge on Tuesday evening.
>> It one of our traditions to serve food that has some connection to the book
>> we've just read.
>>
>> I'm just wondering what readers here think might be most apropos for this
>> occasion.
>>
>> (Nearly sixteen years ago, when I picked V., we had Maltese food topped
>> off with Cheese Danishes.)
>>
>> I'd appreciate any suggestions.
>>
>>    Peter++
>>
>>
>> ===
>>
>> Peter Petto <http://guysbookclub.net>
>> Lakewood High School Math-
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