Forklore http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/ Thoughts on food, family, and museums Copyright 2010 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:33:39 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.35 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mayer July at the Magnes bkg_magnes.jpg

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/12/mayer_july_at_t.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/12/mayer_july_at_t.html News Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:33:39 -0500 Noam wins Golden Key Honor Society Award! noam_gold_key_small.jpg

At Friday's ceremony, the McMaster Chapter presented two scholarships, valued at $250 each, to outstanding new members. This year's deserving winners were Rebecca Jarvis, a second-year student majoring in Honours Life Science with a minor in French, and Noam Berlin, a second-year Honours Biopsychology major.

Golden Key is the world's premier honour society, with a combined membership base of more than 1.6 million students in more than 350 chapters worldwide, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

The Society, which recognizes and encourages scholastic achievement and excellence among college and university students from all academic disciplines, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

Membership is by invitation only for students in the top 15 per cent of their respective faculty. In addition, honorary members are inducted into Golden Key to unite students with faculty, administrators and community leaders. These people are chosen because of their individual accomplishments, personal interest and support of academic excellence.

Read all about it! We are so totally proud!

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/11/noam_wins_golde.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/11/noam_wins_golde.html family Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:16:29 -0500 Shawna wearing Bobe Rivke's silver purse at friend's wedding Purse_s.jpg

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/11/shawna_wearing.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/11/shawna_wearing.html family Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:22:13 -0500 Warsaw time P6200009_ss.jpg

Unable to travel at the moment, so am living on Warsaw time, up at 2:30 am EST (9:00 am in Warsaw), conference starts at 3:00 am, and done by 1:00 pm. We are using Skype with its video feature (all of it free!). Overall it works quite well. I am using a nice little Logitech webcam. Miss a glass of wine and dinner with colleagues in Warsaw, but while they play, I can write up my notes and email them. We are developing the core exhibition for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It is a very exciting project with a terrific team.

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/07/warsaw_time.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/07/warsaw_time.html museums Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:44:36 -0500 Kyle at 7 weeks kyle_CA9CRIBL_small.jpg

Lisa says since adults do not wear pajamas all day, why should kids. So this infant is in overalls!

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/06/kyle_at_7_weeks.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/06/kyle_at_7_weeks.html family Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:04:50 -0500 Mayer Mayer_DSC3169.jpg

Portrait of Mayer taken for taken for the exhibition at the Mosaica festival on June 11, 2006. With thanks to Dima Chatrov and Andrew Maidanik. Mayer's PowerPoint lecture was a smash hit! Shawna ran the rehearsal and the show.

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Shawna's photograph of Kyle, taken on May 29, 2006.

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/06/post.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/06/post.html family Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:04:54 -0500 Kyle at 5 weeks kyle.jpg

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/06/kyle_at_3_weeks.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/06/kyle_at_3_weeks.html family Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:13:08 -0500 Sourdough New batch on the go. This time, lots of rye flakes that I ground in my coffee grinder so it is more like meal, than flour, same with flax, plus hemp. So this loaf really will be like eating steak. Added gluten flour and whole wheat, and lots of caraway. Will line the hot cast iron pan with sesame seeds.

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/sourdough_4.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/sourdough_4.html sourdough Sun, 14 May 2006 20:21:09 -0500 Kyle's bris DSCN0950_s2.jpg

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/kyles_bris.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/kyles_bris.html family Sun, 14 May 2006 15:46:09 -0500 Kyle and his parents DSCN0867_3_s.jpg

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/kyle_and_his_pa_1.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/kyle_and_his_pa_1.html family Sun, 14 May 2006 13:01:16 -0500 Portrait gimblett.jpg

Tom Warren's portrain of Max.

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/portrait.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/portrait.html family Tue, 09 May 2006 07:37:01 -0500 Galanga flowers Found these amazing galanga (galingale) flowers in the freezer case of a small, but very tidy, Thai shop in Chinatown on that steep narrow street off Mott Street running into the park. It was Sunday, a lovely spring day, and Max and I went out for a walk, lunch, and a sit in the Chinatown park. Old men gathered under a tree with their finches in bamboo cages, covered in cloth, which they hung from the branches; there were eight such cagees hanging from that tree at one point. The park was recently renovated, with big boulders; it now has a kind of Chinese landscape feel. They sat on those rough stones talking to each other as their finches chirped.

Now, what to do with the galanga flowers. Seems they are to be thawed, thinly sliced, and added to a Thai-style vinaigrette for a glass noodle salad, rojak, and dishes of that kind.

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Kyle is born! Congratulations Lisa and Corey. Isn't Doron the lucky one to hold the baby! Shawna took this picture.

]]> http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/welcome_to_the_1.html http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/forklore/archives/2006/05/welcome_to_the_1.html family Tue, 02 May 2006 18:19:46 -0500 Sourdough Sign that semester is coming to an end and period of writing at home is about to start. Sourdough in the oven. All out of rye flour, so this one is a mix of rye and lots of whole wheat, with lots of altus. Have to leave the house at 9:30 this morning, so started the oven at around 6:30 and the loaf is looking good. Sprouted mung beans. Steel cut oats in the rice cooker. Made brown basmati rice, filling the loft with a lovely nutty aroma, and black bean chili.

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