I like brain, preferable lamb brain, and it is possible to get it again after the "mad cow disease panic ebbed away . Normally I avoid any severe treatment, some butter, some grappa, that's it. At the moment I am on the Asean/Italian fusion cooking trail. So I marinated the brain in Shaoxing. This is a Chinese Rice Sherry.

For this dish you are free to take the cheap "polipi non veraci" which do have only one "fila di ventose". They are less tender than the polipi veraci, but with this cooking method, it makes no difference.
You may cut them into pieces. put them into a pot and add slices of non treated lemon, also some green celery is good, you can carots too, anything what you imagine good with lemon flavor, obviously no patatoes, but I could try cassava next time.
Close the pot thoroughly to avoid that vapour comes out during the cooking process.

My daughter always complains that I insist too much on "Resteverwertung" (I was sure that "leo" did not know this, it means re-use of stuff). I always try to re-use the duck fat that I took away from the main duck dish.

In this case I got no criticism. I used the duck fat to deep fry sliced Zucchini. When they were nicely brown and cross, I added simply a handful of cashew nuts - Ready to serve.

This is Vincent's (my nephew) favorite, but also Matilde likes it a lot.
Get quails from the supermarket, They are not wild, but from intensive breedings, but they are still much more tasty than the rubber chicken you get as an alternative.

A good winter dish, when you get savoy cabbage everywhere for little money. Invest into the pancetta. I use the panceta from the producer Fanelli from Riofreddo in the north of Lazium.

This is a recipe from Sardegna!
Get a good meaty duck, not too fat. The cheap ducks (5 €/kg) from Piazza Vittorio are normally excellent for the recipe.

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I already expressed my opinion about the superiority of the American education system. The attached sketch is another argument

From November 6-8 I participated in the 5th International Conference on Universal Digital Library. (Pittsburgh, USA ICUDL -

ICUDL is a worldwide initiative with strong operations in China and India to digitize library content and to make it online available.

The picture shows Prof. Jaime Carbonell giving his presentation on the state of art in machine translation

The presentation that I gave at the meeting is attached.

At the end of this East Asia trip I have done a private deviation to Borneo. Yes, Borneo, a place, which I wanted to see for years now. I took the plane from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu and then were picked up at the airport by the people from Nexus residences.