My Americanization is happening at some frightening pace. I began eating chips here, not just simply, but dipping them in sauce. Every other day. I started eating bagels with cream cheese and pizza here. At work, I have a water bottle, which I, like others, carry with me. After some time getting used to it, even the local coffee started to become less offensive to me and I drink it by the liter every day.
If anyone doesn’t know, I almost didn’t eat anything flour-based and sweet throughout the entire year of 2015. It’s true that I am still keeping away from sweets – I haven’t eaten ice cream or drunk soda for a year now. But with flour-based foods, so far I have managed to avoid only bread – I haven’t bought or eaten it at a restaurant throughout the year.
On the other hand, the meat here is decent and there is a huge variety of rice. We started cooking rice more often because it’s tasty here – the store sells several dozen varieties.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 