Mme. Hermine Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 methinks this fellow got his notes mixed up...? http://cgi.ebay.com/Art-of-Chinese-Cooking...VQQcmdZViewItem Link to comment
rg Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 perhaps the poor seller heard one too many stories about balanchine's seeing himself as a chef who whipped up ballets for successive seasons as a way of feeding his dancers and his audiences, and decided that the artful man must have set down his culinary skills at some point, so why not via chinese cuisine. Link to comment
bart Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 I tried to decipher the author's and it did indeed appear to be "The Balanchine School of Peking." After all, many White Russians did indeed pass through Manchuria and northern China while escaping the Bolshevik Revolution. Maybe a relation? But, alas, it turns out to be the work of the "Benedictine Sisters of Peking." A link to another source is here: http://www.geocities.com/lrampey/chinese/cookbook.htm This includes rare illustrations of what may very well be the original production of Duck Lake, as well as the long lost Dance of the Shrimp and Little Pigs pas de trois from the first performances of The Nutcracker. Link to comment
papeetepatrick Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 'They have bird's-nest soup, seaweed soup, Noodle soup, poodle soup, Talking crows with the croup, Almost anything. If you want to buy a saw Or a fish delicious when it's raw Or a pill to kill your moth'r-in-law Or a bee without a sting, Come to the supermarket, If you come on a turtle, you can park it, So come to the supermarket If you come on a goose, you can park it, So come to the supermarket And see Pe- King!' Cole Porter lyrics for Barbra Streisand's marvelous whooping and hollering of 'Come to the Supermarket in old Peking'. Maybe we'll arrive at some new old off-Broadway stuff a la Al Carmines if we make this a creative thread. Oh, and the Benedictine Sisters won't leave this verse in, I bet: 'If you want a bust of jade Or an egg that's more or less decayed Or in case you care to meet a maid For a nice but naughty fling,' Link to comment
sandik Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Oh, it is not fair to make me laugh this hard when my back hurts! Link to comment
atm711 Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Good Grief---I never thought I would see my little Chinese Cookbook featured on Ballet Talk. This is the first Chinese cookbook I owned--it was given to me 40 years ago! Since then (and about a dozen Chinese cookbooks later) my skills are a bit more sophisticated. Also, acquiring a Chinese daughter-in-law helped. Link to comment
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