I’ve been really stuck on a lot of the small island nations - St Kitts and Nevis? Palau? With food - I prefer to go to a proper restaurant but for harder cases like Abkhazia I ordered some candy online (and debatable whether that’s a country any way)

Anyone else have a similar project?

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Estonia

    Food: Verivorst with lingonberry jam ideally, but cranberry will do in a pinch. Short of that, you can try our famous mustard, Põltsamaa Kange , which might be easier to import if you’re located far away.

    Music: I’m mostly into hip-hop so in Estonian language I’d suggest Valitud Mõtted by Noizmakaz (‘Select Thoughts’) or Ühendatud Inimesed by Chalice (‘Connected People’). Both are from the 00s. Anything by Metsatöll is great if you want to listen to folk metal, I won’t even give you a specific album. Good Man Down by Ewert And The Two Dragons for something in English, it’s pretty good and has kind of a modern folk vibe (folk-ish music has been really popular last few decades here).

    Book: Truth and justice is the obvious choice if you have time for a pentalogy. If you want something more modern and funny, The man who spoke Snakish is THE book to read. Andrus Kivirähk is a national treasure. Any time I happen to turn the radio on when his and Mart Juur’s show is on, it makes my Sunday morning much better. Somehow I’ve got like 300-400 books here in this house and that’s not one of them so I should go buy it since I’ve only read parts of it.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    New Zealand here. The most traditional Pacific Island foods are cooked in an earth oven - cover the food in tinfoil, wrap it in wet sacks, place it on hot stones in a hole you’ve dug, then cover it with earth until enough time has passed to cook it. Chances are you won’t find that in a restaurant, so I’m going to recommend our favourite dip. Take one can reduced cream (like condensed milk but thicker and unsweetened) and mix thoroughly with one packet dehydrated onion soup. Cover with film and leave in the fridge for an hour to set. Simple!

    For an album I’m going to recommend We Rise by alt-metal band Devilskin. It’s uniformly good and singer Jenny Skulander has a powerful voice.

    For a book, try Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir. Sci-Fantasy necromancers in space. How can you go wrong?

  • comador @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was about 60% international travel for 15 years (Industrial Automation) and got into a similar thing:

    Basically I feel that in order to experience somewhere, you have to get out of the tourist zone, then eat where the locals eat.

    One of my coolest experience was in Port Harcourt, Nigeria where my wife and I partook in what can only be described as a Yoruba (language) BBQ featuring a lovely dish of Esunsun (Termites) and rice while drinking some Kegite Club (fermented palm date juice) and singing yoruba songs with drunken dancing.

  • imrighthere@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Canada: Poutine/Rush-Moving Pictures or 2112/Margaret Atwood - whichever title interests you.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorOP
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      Alias Grace is slept on, but Oryx and Crake fucked me up and changed my life.

      Poutine is one of those foods that could be used as an argument for a benevolent creator deity.

  • djmikeale@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    Yeah I did a similar thing - cooking a dish from every country in the world. Think I got to 30 countries or something and then I got distracted with other projects. Also struggled because the list I made had some nations without inhabitants.

    Anyways! For Denmark, I’d recommend

    • “Ris A La mande” which has that name to sound French, but has nothing to do with France
    • Tina Dickow - count to ten (listened to this a lot back in high school and learned to play some of the tracks on piano)
    • as for books, I’m not sure.
    • nilaus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      As a classic alternative try:

      -Frikadeller with potatoes and gravy

      -Shubidua (any album)

      -barndommens gade (street of childhood) by Tove Ditlevsen

    • Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Trainspotting (although i loved it when i was younger) is a bit grim.

      Have you ever heard of “McAuslan in the Rough” by George Macdonald Frasier. Very fun, light hearted, but heartfelt, well written and more Scottish than a dram of the wee creature.

      And yer no foolin’ we the Haggis, tatties and neeps.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorOP
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      2 months ago

      I should put together a spreadsheet, but really just through a kinda memory palace thing. Same way I track my place in books.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Not a project but an illusion. I’d like to do a road trip around Spain buying food typical of each region and at the end make big diner party with samples of everything collected during the trip.

  • toofpic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Russia: Eat Beef Stroganoff+buckwheat+chanterelles, read “Master and Margaret”, listen to “Целлулоид” (Celluloid) album by Tequilajazz.