I met a Russian immigrant the other day...

[Guest guest]

He looked so healthy and strong, and has been in America for 6 months.

He lived in Siberia before that and he was still working on his

English but it was ok. His name is Dimitry and he is 34 years old and

told me some interesting things about his diet back on Russia. He

seemed so grateful to have found his way onto the ranch where I

live...he was feeling pretty isolated down in the city and was

definitely suffering from culture shock...especially from all of the

violence and sex on tv and in movies.

I showed him the goats and he told me back in Russia that he would

drink 3-4 liters of milk a day. He didn't know many words but he used

the word 'organic' to describe the milk. He said he tried drinking

the milk here in the stores and he made a gesture of his stomach

hurting and described the milk as 'artificial', and said he couldn't

drink it. I am planning on giving him some goats milk once they have

the babies, but I don't think he will be able to afford organic

pastures milk as him and his wife are struggling a bit.

I showed him the chickens and he asked for an egg. He neatly punched

a whole in the top of the egg and dumped it in his mouth. He looked

so happy to be able to do that again. He said he ate so many eggs

back in russia, but he didn't like the 'artificial' eggs in the store,

but ate them sometimes anyway.

I showed him the bees and he told me he always had a lot of honey in

Siberia. He said he would eat large amounts of nuts (like a pint or

more of shelled nuts) with honey. I tried figuring out what kind of

nuts and he said they looked like a brain after being cracked so they

were walnuts.

Finally he let me know how horrible all the bread is in America. He

compared it to paper or cardboard. He said that organic food was

really cheap in Russia, that you could buy 2 good loaves of bread for

one dollar, and vegetables were really cheap too.

He was so glad to be on the ranch, to be away from the city, and he

pointed down to Los Angeles which you can see way in the distance from

these mountains...and he said down there is capitalism. He pointed up

the the ranch and said up here is communism, and he meant it as a very

good thing. He just thinks that his country and all the other

countries are too concerned with war and that is why Russia and many

places have gone downhill.

I had a good day hanging out with him, and learned a lot. I need to

talk to him again and hopefully get him on the right track so that

living in America and eating American food doesn't make him sick,

because he still obviously has robust health from many years of eating

properly.

Well I thought I would share,

-

[Guest guest]

What city is your ranch in, ?  How far from LA? Did Dimitry drink any

fermented milk product when he lived in Siberia?

Pamela

From: gdawson6 <gdawson6@...>

Subject: I met a Russian immigrant the other day...

Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 6:49 AM

He looked so healthy and strong, and has been in America for 6

months.

He lived in Siberia before that and he was still working on his

English but it was ok. His name is Dimitry and he is 34 years old and

told me some interesting things about his diet back on Russia. He

seemed so grateful to have found his way onto the ranch where I

live...he was feeling pretty isolated down in the city and was

definitely suffering from culture shock...especially from all of the

violence and sex on tv and in movies.

I showed him the goats and he told me back in Russia that he would

drink 3-4 liters of milk a day. He didn't know many words but he used

the word 'organic' to describe the milk. He said he tried drinking

the milk here in the stores and he made a gesture of his stomach

hurting and described the milk as 'artificial' , and said he couldn't

drink it. I am planning on giving him some goats milk once they have

the babies, but I don't think he will be able to afford organic

pastures milk as him and his wife are struggling a bit.

I showed him the chickens and he asked for an egg. He neatly punched

a whole in the top of the egg and dumped it in his mouth. He looked

so happy to be able to do that again. He said he ate so many eggs

back in russia, but he didn't like the 'artificial' eggs in the store,

but ate them sometimes anyway.

I showed him the bees and he told me he always had a lot of honey in

Siberia. He said he would eat large amounts of nuts (like a pint or

more of shelled nuts) with honey. I tried figuring out what kind of

nuts and he said they looked like a brain after being cracked so they

were walnuts.

Finally he let me know how horrible all the bread is in America. He

compared it to paper or cardboard. He said that organic food was

really cheap in Russia, that you could buy 2 good loaves of bread for

one dollar, and vegetables were really cheap too.

He was so glad to be on the ranch, to be away from the city, and he

pointed down to Los Angeles which you can see way in the distance from

these mountains... and he said down there is capitalism. He pointed up

the the ranch and said up here is communism, and he meant it as a very

good thing. He just thinks that his country and all the other

countries are too concerned with war and that is why Russia and many

places have gone downhill.

I had a good day hanging out with him, and learned a lot. I need to

talk to him again and hopefully get him on the right track so that

living in America and eating American food doesn't make him sick,

because he still obviously has robust health from many years of eating

properly.

Well I thought I would share,

-

[Guest guest]

I am in Altadena, on the southern border of the Angeles National

Forest. Its about a 30 minute drive north of LA.

Dimitry drank most of the milk fresh from my understanding. He

pointed to glass quart bottles and just said he would drink 3 or 4 of

those a day. I was surprised because I've been drinking about a

gallon a milk a day since march with little other food, so we

definitely had some stuff in common. He told me that if the milk went

sour they would make a certain kind of cheese out of it...sounded like

ricotta from what little I know about cheese.

I was feeding the chickens and I showed him some freshly sprouted

organic barley, and thought he might be confused because it was

already starting to look a little like grass and had a few inch long

sprouts but before I could say anything he grabbed some and popped it

in his mouth.

-

>

> What city is your ranch in, ?  How far from LA? Did Dimitry

drink any fermented milk product when he lived in Siberia?

>

> Pamela

[Guest guest]

I would be curious to find out where he is from in Siberia. Probably some

smaller village,

because city dwellers don't have access to raw milk. I'm from Siberia and the

only place I

had raw milk was at my grandmas. But I do agree - produce back in Russia is MUCH

better

then any of the commercial foods here. My mom had IBS since she moved to the

States

(about 10 years ago) and every time she goes back to Russia it all goes away in

a few

days. But I do remember having eggs just like that - out of the shell. Or

gogol-mogol

when you whip up a raw egg and throw some salt in there and break bread in

pieces, mix

is with the egg and eat it right then and there.

Elena

> >

> > What city is your ranch in, ?  How far from LA? Did Dimitry

> drink any fermented milk product when he lived in Siberia?

> >

> > Pamela

>