What were her other choices? Could she have managed to immerse herself globally in, say, Tahiti? From what I hear, Tahitians need as much management as anybody.

Wow, EL! Tough days for you! Don't worry, two weeks goes by very quickly and your pincess will be home before you know it! That trouble maker, Bill Gates!

Courage, dear heart. Gailor will be fine.

Some of those shots really hurt. I didn't care for malaria pills, either.

This is just more proof that Bill Gates is out to make everyone miserable.

But, I hope she has a great time. She probably won't be going into the north of Uganda, or much out of Kampala, so she should be fine.

Hopefully the princess will have a satellite phone available to keep in touch with the queen mother whilst she is away?

That might help ease the queen mother's worries.

Awww... I'm sure she'll be fine & come home safe!

Good luck to the princess. And good luck to her mom. Its only till the 28th. Poor Mom.

The saddest thing about motherhood is accepting the fact that you can't protect your child forever.

(((EL))) (cyber hugs)

Perhaps tis revenge for being named Gailor.

Thank you for sharing your feelings so beautifully with the many, many friends you've made through this blog -- who look forward to word that the glorious Gailor is back in the 'north country' safe and sound.

Thanks for your and everyone's kind words this morning. Except for the slight to Gailor's beautiful family name. :-) EL

Look at it this way...Gailor can provide some blog posts on food in Uganda!

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Gailor can provide some blog posts on food in Uganda!

Yeah, that should comfort EL

Most Egotistical Post of the Day goes to Kate.

It's so sad. In the blogware Kate's comment says "I heart-symbol this post." (She made sideways with a karat and a 3.) But the heart-symbol, or at least its karat, makes the whole rest of her comment disappear. Good to know. Especially as you're always yelling at me about using (heart). :-) EL

Maybe Kate is narcoleptic and suddenly fell asleep.

Our son also suffered from wanderlust and spent 2 inglorious years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, where the diet for the locals was mostly millet; rice was considered a luxury. It was here that he met another volunteer whom he later married. Our DIL has since spent time in Uganda for work and has had no ill experiences [pun intended].

Beware the evil mefliquine, which caused The Prince permanent partial deafness. The malarone pills are safer but may cause severe nausea. When we were near malarial areas several years ago, we decided after a few days that the disease was more desirable than the preventative. The last time, too, we took our chances.

Be brave, little buckaroo. she'll be fine.

Maybe Kate is narcoleptic and suddenly fell asleep.

My guess is, her blasted phone probably rang.

Beware the evil mefliquine, which caused The Prince permanent partial deafness. The malarone pills are safer but may cause severe nausea.

Does this make you feel better EL?

Beware...

Really, I don't see any sentence that begins with this word bringing comfort.

Don't make me laugh out loud in my office. EL

The Ides of March are coming up.

Good catch, Lissa. I think EL should do a Top Ten Caesar Salads for the Ides of March, rather than something for St. Patrick's Day, which everybody in the world will be doing.

Oh, for goodness sake.

Trying again:
I heart this post.

Bucky, I love that idea. It is warming up, so one's thoughts turn to early spring greens. Of course, one doesn't use early spring greens on a Caesar salad, but after what Hollywood has done to Rome, I think we could probably take that small liberty.

EL: try and remind yourself that her travels mean that you did your job well!
You have raised her with the courage to go out into the world. Instead, you could have had a daughter who would be unable to handle the world, and would live at home and became an old, unmarried hoarder cat lady!
Have a glass of wine and some chocolate each evening, and before you know it, the two weeks will be up.

Top Ten Caesar salads? That should burn up the blogosphere.

When I was in the Navy and over that way, we only had to take our malaria pills once a week, but you needed to take them at about the same time of day each week.

EL, when Gailor gets back most likely the health folks will give her another anti-malarial pill to take for at least two weeks after she returns. Make sure she takes that.

I spent ten days in Mombasa Kenya and had a blast. We lived like royalty for a fraction of what that would cost in the USA.

Hey! My anniversary is the Ides of March (and yes my ring is engraved "Et tu, Brute").

Best wishes to Elizabeth and for Gailor's safe return.

Bucky -- given your foodie quiz of last week, wouldn't it be more appropriate to hold the Top Ten Caesar Salads list for Cinco de Mayo?

I don't think I know of ten places with great Ceasar salads. I'd be interested for sure. Too often the salads are sans anchovies or overpowered with garlic or (the worst) not made with the requisite raw egg. Some that call themselves Ceaser salads are decent but definitely NOT a Ceasar salad, Zannino's for example. I love that salad that they call Ceasar but it's not a "real" one. Great salads are like great iced tea - seem so simple but get so lost.

Joyce W. -- I agree with you about the difficulty in finding a genuine Caesar Salad. Could you find even one that actually uses raw egg? The truth is, this is something that could easily be made at home but -- I'm afraid of using raw egg.

mat hudock -- "Et tu, Brute" on the wedding ring: that is just too funny. That's going to get me through the rest of my day.

"I heart-symbol this post." (She made sideways with a karat and a 3.)

Why not just use a ... heart? And a carat 3 would look like this ^3, which makes no sense. I think you mean a left angle bracket (which starts out all html imbedded code, so duh..) and a 3. That particular constriuction is sideways and reversed and consequently just looks like lady parts to me.

I ♥ Ewe

What's the big deal to do it right?

I sort of thought the big deal was that she tried to say something nice to me even if it didn't quite work out. :-) EL

I always laugh when people ask for Caesar salad with no anchovies because they hate anchovies. Idjits.

Oh LawnDwarf Laura Lee, you're afraid of working with raw egg at home but you'll let the lowest person on the kitchen totem pole make it for you? Great Caesar's ghost!

Ok, now it's just weird. My daughter was born on Cinco de Mayo (and yes, her college birthdays will be lots of fun).

hmpstd - yes, technically, you are correct. I was trying to make a food journalism pun? (I was actually trying to redeem myself in EL's eyes for my meatball faux pax.)

I sort of thought the big deal was that.....

Come on baby, why you gotta be like that? Sorry for the grumpiness, I just mean that why not just insert the actual heart symbol? Harumph.

Because I know you can take it. Plus her keyboard may not have an actual heart symbol. EL

Commercial eggs are sickening in this country. The conditions that battery hens lay under are unsanitary, unethical and very inexpensive. To eat raw eggs from those chickens would be suicidal.

To eat raw eggs from a free range chicken, raised by a farmer you've talked with? That is not a problem. Hard to find, but I'll eat those raw all day, with little chance of illness.

I won't buy commercial eggs if I can possibly avoid it, and I'll cheerfully pay more for eggs from properly raised and treated chickens.

Owl Meat Gamete -- that caesar salad I described to you before was consumed when I was young and reckless and not as aware of the prevalence of salmonella contamination. I see Mark Bittman recommends piercing the shell with a pin and boiling the eggs for 60 to 90 seconds. That would probably be better than using pasteurized egg product.

matt hudock -- my birthday is also on May 5th but I was born back before anybody in the mid-atlantic states was celebrating Cinco de Mayo. Don't remember tamales or margaritas while growing up.

Lissa - I agree with you about commerical eggs in this country, and will go a bit further to say, all food conditions in this country are not much removed from Upton Sinclairs The Jungle. I think that there are pasturized egg products out there that will sort of do the job, and I saw someone on tv (probably TFN) saying if you just coddle the egg, you can kill anything lurking in there and still use it as a binding agent for Ceasar salad, mayo, eggnog, etc.

Having said all of that, I'm not in denial that there are certainly food borne illnesses everyday, but I personally nor anyone that I know (personally) has ever had one. Luck of the draw I guess. I just miss the old days when you could eat raw stuff (and cooked for that matter) and not worry about dying!

raw eggs? you people are disgusting.

Joyce, I prefer not to mollycoddle anything!

You are right about food inspection. I guess it cuts into the profits.

maybe if yous people would cook your food like real men instead of eating hat crap like sushie and rawed eggs and braine bougers you coold haveh the strenth to get lift some weights and be real men. EAT STEak TREE HUMPIN LIBRELS! Us meet eaters will defeat yous.all

skinny pete can'tbe beet! he don't drink rain water

Tim Lumber - - - is that you?

Kate,
I ♥ Preview. It catches many of my all-too-common mistakes.

While we're on suits,

I like a ♣ sandwich.
♦♦♦♦ are a girl's best friend.
I ♠ my cat.

Laura Lee, the Caesar salad dressing recipe in Joy of Cooking calls for "coddling" an egg--boiling it for two minutes--before adding it. That makes the egg safe to use in a "raw" dressing. I also prefer anchovy paste over canned anchovies. The final result is absolutely delicious, and keeps for a few weeks in the fridge!

Joyce W--you've never had food poisoning???

Dahlink, thinking back, actually, yes. One time that I can 100% attribute to food. It was from chicken ceasar salad (!) at Pepe's on Fall's Road. All 3 of us who had it for lunch got it, so it was definitely that. I stand corrected-I wonder if they use raw eggs?