Food fantasies, common sense, and common people…

After exhausting amounts of work, brave EU regulators finally conclude: you should be free to buy weird looking food…
Just ridiculous! I tried to hide away my irony for a few days on this, but there, can’t help it any longer. This is proof that regulators (those at the supra-national level particularly) loose their heads and common sense altogether… What do they use instead? Well, obviously not consumers opinion, not producers’, and, no, not even scientific evidence (I don’t believe there is some in this case btw). What they seem to use is their “vision” of a fairy-tale world in the creation of which every step is yet another product of their sick imagination. Their final projection: a world without “faulty” vegetables on a perfectly round plate, perfectly shaped table, in a perfect, purple Barbie house with perfect etc. Really? who’s wish is this and, most importantly, who is going to pay for all this? It doesn’t take a genius ( economists are generally ignored by politicians, right?) to understand that rules imposing standards will cause a reduction in the supply of the regulated food, accompanied by an increase in price affecting poor people the most as they already allocate a significant part of their budget to alimentary products. One pound of twisted potatoes, curved cucumbers, and ugly carrots will surely complete one family’s dinner then their non existence.

Classical music and emotional mood

Here’s a list of five classical masterpieces which I consider to be the most romantic and which I love listening from time to time:

1. Für Elise – Ludwig van Beethoven

2. Moonlight Sonata, Adagio- Ludwig van Beethoven

3. Ballade No. 1- Frederic Chopin

4. The Nutcracker: Flower Waltz – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

5. Prelude – Sergei Rachmaninoff And London Symphony Orchestra

6. Romeo & Juliet – Sergey Prokofiev

There are many more of course, but the first one is, by far, my favorite; it reminds me of my best childhood friend whom I lost when I left Moldova, almost 13 years ago, without ever saying good bye… I remember inventing excuses to stop by her home just to ask and hear her playing this song (she was taking piano lessons at that time), and she always did, again and again, for me.

Here’s Für Tanya! my dear friend, hope all is well with you.

I’m thinking about taking piano lessons myself just to be able to play this song. So beautiful!