tex mex a la oslo
Tuesday, 24. October 2006, 10:59:55
Wow. Went upstairs to the canteen for lunch today and was met by the familiar smell of Tex-Mex. It wasn't the same as in Texas but there was guacamole (not like we make it but good), sour-cream, tortillas, taco shells, and unusual but quite edible vegetarian and meat filler. With red beans and corn, it was a good hearty meal on a sunny but cool Fall day.
There's a local Mexican food chain here called Mucho Mas that I haven't tried yet. Apparently the prices are good for the portions here but it's still conceptually hard for an Austin expat to think of burritos and taco plates as something other than the least expensive option in town. I'll save my first outing there for sometime down the road when the snow has long since turned to a grey icy slush and the skies darken early in the afternoon and the first pangs of homesickness turn inside us. then it will be time to calm the insidious creature with tortillas and salsa and maybe even a Mexican beer.
In other Opera/food related silliness, there is a new sign out in front of our office that says:
Last Friday I missed Previn conducting Carmina Burana. Andre Previn has been the director of the Oslo Philharmonic for a while now. I'd have liked to have seen this famed conductor (and famed ex of Mia Farrow and father to Soon-Yi) performing such a dynamic piece. Although it has been used in a million movies and previews, I've rarely heard the whole thing and this has got to be one of Previn's last performances here since I believe I read that 2006 is his final season in Norway.
That will teach me not to look ahead at what's happening in town.
We do have a things-to-do mailing list at the office. Several people are planning to go to a trance concert by Sander van Doorn in a couple weeks that could be a lot of fun. I'm just starting to learn where to look for things that are going on in town. Last night there was a discussion in English on digital art called something like, "software in the age of hyperactivity". I wasn't able to make that one but it's good to know that visiting artisits and theater and lecture series are available for the Norwegian impaired.
Now we just need to start the Expat Cinema that provides English subtitles for Norwegian films.
There's a local Mexican food chain here called Mucho Mas that I haven't tried yet. Apparently the prices are good for the portions here but it's still conceptually hard for an Austin expat to think of burritos and taco plates as something other than the least expensive option in town. I'll save my first outing there for sometime down the road when the snow has long since turned to a grey icy slush and the skies darken early in the afternoon and the first pangs of homesickness turn inside us. then it will be time to calm the insidious creature with tortillas and salsa and maybe even a Mexican beer.
In other Opera/food related silliness, there is a new sign out in front of our office that says:
We Make Web Browsers
Not Falafel.
Sorry.
Last Friday I missed Previn conducting Carmina Burana. Andre Previn has been the director of the Oslo Philharmonic for a while now. I'd have liked to have seen this famed conductor (and famed ex of Mia Farrow and father to Soon-Yi) performing such a dynamic piece. Although it has been used in a million movies and previews, I've rarely heard the whole thing and this has got to be one of Previn's last performances here since I believe I read that 2006 is his final season in Norway.
That will teach me not to look ahead at what's happening in town.
We do have a things-to-do mailing list at the office. Several people are planning to go to a trance concert by Sander van Doorn in a couple weeks that could be a lot of fun. I'm just starting to learn where to look for things that are going on in town. Last night there was a discussion in English on digital art called something like, "software in the age of hyperactivity". I wasn't able to make that one but it's good to know that visiting artisits and theater and lecture series are available for the Norwegian impaired.
Now we just need to start the Expat Cinema that provides English subtitles for Norwegian films.
I wonder what Firefox developers have as their office sign ..... no foxes on fire???
By anonymous user, # 24. October 2006, 17:40:42