my stomach is in knots that keep tightening.
in april the doctors told me i cant eat gluten anymore.
at first this didnt seem like a big deal, in england all products clearly indicate what they do and do not contain. so it wasnt hard: i went to sainsburys and bought the items with the gluten free sign.
in hungary, with simina's help, i learned a new word, glutenmentes, which means that the item in question is something i can eat.
the problem is that here in russia, companies feel no need to indicate ingrediants in such details on their products, and as a result i am never quite sure what i am eating, the recipe for disaster.
and so eating has become a major problem. at home it is not too bad, rice and vegetables is always safe. but i am not home during the day, so i cant cook for myself....and the results of restaurant and street food are often not pleasant. it is amazing how many products contain gluten. for example, i cant drink beer, or put my sushi in soy sauce, as both are generally made from wheat (soy sauce can be made with out...but how do you know?). yet if you ask in a restaurant if the soy sauce has wheat, the waiters will tell you that it doesnt...grrr....
the worst thing is that since i have essentially stopped eating gluten, the results when i accidentally do are far worse than before. i dont know exactly why, but i suppose it is like when i got glasses. i didnt know i had a problem with my sight until i failed my drivers license exam, but after i got glasses, everything with out them seemed more blurry than before and within a few months my eyesight worsen considerably and i needed my perscription changed. the doctors said it was normal, even though it seemed odd. perhaps it is the same with stomachs?
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i hope you feel better now. and that you can work it out (and be luckier with what you eat when you eat out in Moscow - it seems it all comes down to luck). All this reminds me of when I was there with you and everytime we ate out you had to explain and make it very clear that you were a vegetarian, which meant you did not eat meat or any fish, and the waiters always told you "da da, salad has no fish, etc", and seldom was it that way. I remember that a lot of tuna came in your "meat and fish free" orders at restaurants...
yeah, the problem persists, same as when you were here.this has to be one of the few places on earth where ham is considered vegetarian. grrrr.
i am trying to frequent only korean and japanese places, where it is pretty obvious what you are getting, but the only problem with that is such places are rarely cheap...
in a lighter note: Have you read Daniel Kalder´s "Last Cosmonaut: travels to the republics that tourism forgot"? I just finished it. Loved it (it is pretty funny, indeed). Kalder is Scottish and he has been living in Moscow for the past 6 years...
eat more baklazhany, it's safe
i will try, but i can cook it as well as you can! at least i didnt poison myself yesterday...
actually i have read part of the book about travelinng in ex cccp...but it was about 15 pounds in england, so i only read what i could in the bookshops....looked funny though....naturally becasue the writer is scottish!
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