dessert

[serene]

We met a nice Bedouin man at the Ashby flea market, and he's coming over
tonight to bring us Egyptian food. I think I shall stop at the Berkeley
Bowl on the way home and get dessert -- no, wait, I know! Bakesale Betty's
sticky date pudding. That was really good. Yes, that'll be perfect.

[Edit: I forgot Bakesale Betty's is closed unti the 13th or something. Berkeley Bowl is also closed. We'll see if Whole Foods is open, and if not, we'll just go to Safeway.]

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

As is usual when BB is closed, WF had "lines out the door," in the form of a line of cars out the parking lot and onto T'graph. I decided to turn leftovers into soup tonight.

(Explain Bakesale Betty's, I beg you.)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Bakesale Betty (http://www.bakesalebetty.com/)'s real name is Alison. She's a lovely woman who wears a blue wig when she's working at her new bakery, which is in Temescal where Pizzaiolo and the Temescal Cafe are (most people think of it as being across the street from the Walgreens and Genova). Her stuff is good, sometimes really good -- best lemon bars I've ever had, lovely ginger cookies, and the sticky date pudding with caramel sauce went over really well at our family christmas get-together.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Oh, so what you're saying is, it's on the way home from work. I am so doomed.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Yes. I am evil. There ya have it.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

someotherguy, upon hearing this: "Well, if it's on her way, how come she doesn't come visit *us*?" :-)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Provided as information, not grammar crit:

I'm told that Bedouin properly is a collective plural noun, and that the proper singular is Bedou.

Sometimes it's nice that the students trust me enough to share stuff like that.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

His exact words to us: "I am a Bedouin."

[wcg.livejournal.com]

OK. If that's what he wants to be called, courtesy dictates that it's what we call him.

[pure-agnostic.livejournal.com]

When I lived in a Bedouin camp in the Sahara desert last summer, I heard them use Bedouin as both single and plural. (The pronounced it bed-u-een.) The word Bedu is used to describe Bedouin who live in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula.

[pure-agnostic.livejournal.com]

The Bedouin are among some of the kindest people I've ever met. The experience of receiving hospitality from one is a gift. Lucky you!