request for bleeding edge culinary suggestions

[Doc Sportello]

Don't forget to bring the designer Soviet-era ice cream for dessert


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com> wrote:

> 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++
>
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> 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<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics>,
> a *kugelblitz* (German: "ball lightning", not to be confused with ball
> lightning <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning>) is a
> concentration of light <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light> so intense
> that it forms an event horizon<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon> and
> becomes self-trapped: according to general relativity<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity>,
> if enough radiation is aimed into a region, the concentration of energy can
> warp spacetime <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime>enough for the
> region to become a black hole <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole>(although
> this would be a black hole whose original mass-energy<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence> 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 <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_temperature>, the
> temperature of the universe 5.4×10-44 seconds after The Big Bang<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang>
> .
> The best-known reference to the kugelblitz idea in English is probably John
> Archibald Wheeler <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler>'s
> 1955 paper "Geons",[1]<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)#cite_note-1> which
> explored the idea of creating particles (or toy models<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_model> of
> particles) from spacetime <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime>curvature.
> Wheeler's paper on geons <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics)> also
> introduced the idea that lines of electric charge trapped in a wormhole<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole> throat
> might be used to model the properties of a charged particle-pair.
> A kugelblitz is an important plot element inFrederik Pohl<http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl>'s
> novel *Heechee Rendezvous
> <http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee_Rendezvous>*.
>
> On Sunday, March 23, 2014, Peter Petto <ppetto at ppetto.com> wrote:
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>> 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++
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>>
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