Re: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: July 04, 2010 from Miriam Taylor on 2010-07-05 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:03:51 -0400
To: veni vici <venivici_at_inbox.com>, Czernowitz Genealogy and History <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

I will be in Chernivtsi in August, but I doubt that I will go food shopping.
All I can say, is that in previous years, the cost of eating in a restaurant
was about one third of what a comparable meal would cost in Bloomington IN.

Mimi

On 7/5/10 10:21 PM, "veni vici" <venivici_at_inbox.com> wrote:

> With all the talk of food and recipes, an inevitable questions comes to my
> mind. What are food costs in Chernivtsy today? In fact, I'd love to find out
> what food prices are in European countries, in different cities in the U.S.,
> in Israel, Australia, wherever Czernowitzers are today.
>
> I'm in Toronto, Canada, and I get the sense that our food prices have
> increased dramatically in the past 12 months. And now they've added taxes to
> certain foods, too.
>
> If anyone is visiting Cz this summer please check out what they pay for the
> following basics: Milk, eggs, cheese, bread, fish, chicken, tomatoes,
> lettuce, string beans, apples, oranges and bananas. I have a feeling we're
> all in for surprises.
>
> I'll convert all the items into U.S. dollars to get a fair comparison. If you
> want to do the conversions, go to:
> http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html - it's a free currency exchange
> calculator.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
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