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Tranzicija kafana

Baš juče prođoh pored Manježa, i dalje zatvoren zbog renoviranja i adaptacije, adaptacije na šta, pitam se, prolazim pored nekadašnjeg Malog Pariza svaki dan, već dve godine, adaptira se se sve vreme, samo nema rezultata, to je mali problem, i dalje je zatvoren, a kad se otvori, ko zna šta će da osvane.

Isto, čitam neki tekst na BBC News o dobitnicima i gubitnicima tranzicije u Rusije, tekst, onako, piše šarmantno o toj situaciji, ali čitala sam već fenomenalnu knjigu Ane Uzelac 'Deca Putina' pa znam sve to vrlo dobro.
U svakom slučaju, u ovom pomenutom textu dugogodišnji dopisnik piše kako su se tokom tranzicije promenile kafane u Moskvi:

"In the old days eating out in the Soviet Union went like this:
A waiter who looked like a guard from a hospital for the criminally insane would hand you a menu the size of a book of wallpaper samples. Slowly it would become clear that the items described did not constitute a list of items for sale, just a kind of collective folk memory of the entire Russian nation on the subject of food.
Trying to tease out of your server the one or two dishes that were actually available nearly always took longer than the process of eating dinner itself.
Nowadays it is all sushi, and service, and salads dressed in olive oil, rather than motor oil - all signs that a new Russia has risen to its feet, albeit a little unsteadily, on the ruins of the old Soviet Union."

Ruska priča deluje poznato, isti generalni trendovi kao i kod nas, samo sve malo naglašenije, i kad je u plusu i u minusu.
A ako niste znali da je Beograd imao prvu kafanu pre Pariza, Beča i ostalih evropskih metropola, e pa nisam ni ja, ali tako kaže JAT revija. Pa sad, ko veruje...

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