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Favorite comfort food: Peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Dad used to make them for me when I was a kid. I use reduced fat peanut butter now.

Favorite breakfast: Peanut butter on an onion bagel. (Don't knock it till you've tried it.)

Favorite breakfast when I have time to cook: Basically, it's French toast made with a bagel then topped with an egg and cheese and thrown under the broiler. A friend once made it for me and I thought she was nuts until I tried it.

<rooting around in the freezer looking for bagels>

I deal in lingerie and practice yoga.

Well, I came in a bit late, however I found this thread most interesting. I do not see anything wrong with languages borrowing from other languages, it has been happening ever since languages existed, mostly among 'neighbors'. However when this borrowing becomes a matter of urgency, of some 'fashion', it indicates something's not right with the society. I come from Eastern Europe and had witnessed the change the languages there underwent in the past twelve or so years. The Euro-optimists would go out of their way to insert 'internationalisms' as they are commonly referred to into every single sentence. The nationalist 'purists' were equally ridiculous, attempting to slovakize the slovak, hungarianize the hungarian, etc. They had to invent words for things we had no names for (e.g. computer became a 'calculating machine', and such). (Here I can't but insert a little fact that the work 'robot' comes from the Czech language. Invented by Czech writer Karel Čapek on the basis of the word 'robota' - work. It pleases us, members of tiny nations when something catches on). But other than the two extremes, just like spanish 'castillianize', we 'slovakize' new internationalisms into slovak gradually, czechs 'czechizise' them (or whatnot), slovenes 'slovenize' them. it makes life interesting and entertaining.

Soups, especially thick soups are great winterdishes. Bandylu2, marrow bone on dark bread is delicious. Ever tried marrow bone dumplings in your soup recipe? Frittatas, meat strudel, liver dumplings, cream of wheat dumplings? Your soup is cooked in my house at least once a week and is used as stock. Other favorites are: potatoe soup, lentil soup, Tuscany winter minestrone. All these soups are followed by something sweet, like applestrudel, fruit dumplings, or filled pancakes.