temps as high as +8 for a week

that's like the upper 40s in real numbers.

Ah yes, you still use that obsolete system where zero is the
freezing point of a saturated salt solution and 100 is the
temperature of a moderately ill Frenchman. [g]

As opposed to the most rational system, where
the boiling point of water is 373.16.

I hope people are formulating plans B for the future.

And C and D. We are, but none of them are either desirable or cheap.

They are going to look desirable soon enough.

A beet and herring free dish ...

When I was in Estonia and Latvia, which are pretty
much like Lithuania except perhaps not quite so
antisemitic, the food was generally pretty poor,
certainly uninspired, except at Gutenbergs, which
is named for a guy who probably never got within
a thousand miles of the place, but was to the rest
of the food as Johannes was to woodcut printing.
But there a fine meal cost more than it would have
in Paris.

Title: Lithuanian Pork Feet Braised with Bacon
Cook meat in salted water with bay leaves. Fry bacon, add onion
and fry until onion is lightly browned. Place cooked meat into a
pot, cover with minced garlic, fried bacon-onion mixture and
braise covered for about 15 minutes. Serve pork feet surrounded
with onions and hot potatoes.

Doesn't look bad, actually. I'd find a way to brown
the cooked pig feet, but that might be seen as a
lily gilding beyond the means even of the wealthier
kulaks who might be served that dish.

... I prefer whisky flavoured whisky.

Thank goodness, a real human being.

Blue Latvian
categories: booze, don't know if it's real or not
yield: 1

1 oz whisky (whiskey,bourbon...)
Raspberry juice (blue)
Lemon-lime soda (blue)

Pour the whiskey into a mixing glass. Add blue
raspberry juice until the mixture is more blue
than brown. Finish with lemon-lime soda until
the mixture is fizzing. Serve in a collins glass.

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