User:Peter Isotalo
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My name is Peter Isotalo. I was born in Moscow in 1980 and I grew up in both Sweden and the Soviet Union. My family settled in Sweden in 1990 and I consider myself to be culturally and linguistically a Swede. I used to speak Russian as a second language, but it fell into disuse after moving from Moscow, so it's rather rusty now.
I live in Jakobsberg, a suburb of Stockholm in the municipality of Järfälla. I've completed two terms of linguistics at Stockholm University (SU). I have also taken two semesters of Mandarin at SU and a minor, unfinished, course in Dutch. Before my university studies I took several high school courses in Japanese, German, Spanish, Latin and Russian. I have done some work as a freelance translator and subtitler. I currently working part time in the souvenir shop at the Vasa Museum and studying history at SU.
I previously went under the handle user:karmosin, so any edit history prior to October 17 2005 can be found here. You can also find me at Wikimedia Commons and English Wiktionary.
sub-pages
- User:Peter Isotalo/temp
- User:Peter Isotalo/rewrite
- User:Peter Isotalo/literature
- User:Peter Isotalo/novelties
- User:Peter Isotalo/reading
- User:Peter Isotalo/project
I am participating in the following WikiProjects:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Phonetics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle Ages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink
Bias
- leftist social democrat
- middle class
- academic brat
- sexual radical
- feminist
- cannabis liberal
- internationalist
- anti-separatist (that goes for race, gender and ethnicity too)
- slightly pro-Russian
Contents |
My work
Did you know...
- ...that Valrhona, a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate?
- ...that the most common food in medieval cuisine for all social classes was bread and that almond milk and verjuice were among the most common ingredients?
- ...that a subtlety was an elaborate medieval dish that was supposed to entertain and surprise diners with extravagant decorations or by imitating other types of food?
- ...that many regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab cuisine through contact with Muslim Spain and Sicily?
- ...that maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine, and that maguey worms, spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
- ...that chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine?
- ...that bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine?
- ...that pachamanca is a Peruvian dish which has its origins in Inca cuisine?
- ...that smoking has a history that dates back at least 5,000 years and is one of the most widely practiced recreational activities in the world?
Major contributions
- articles which I have written mostly or entirely on my own
- Swedish language
- Reuben Sturman
- Scandinavism (built up from a mere redirect to Scandinavia)
- medieval cuisine
- regional cuisines of medieval Europe
- entremet
- subtlety
- potage
- sop
- whitedish (later merged with blancmange)
- Aztec cuisine
- early modern European cuisine
- Ancient Egyptian cuisine
- Inca cuisine
- Valrhona
- horse artillery
- Vasa (ship)
- smoking
- Pronunciation files as well as IPAs on a multitide of Swedish, Russian and other foreign-language related articles.
Minor contributions
- substantial, though not dominant, amounts of new info added
- Cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies
- Dansk Sprognævn
- Danish language
- Finland-Swedish
- Great Zimbabwe
- history of beer
- Norn language
- self-propelled artillery
- Skåneland
- spices
- Standard Mandarin
- voiceless palatal-velar fricative
Copyediting and reviewing
- touch-ups and providing general advice
- Battle of Oliwa
- Battle of Shiloh
- Chinese language
- Domenico Selvo
- Dutch language
- Elfdalian
- French cuisine
- cyberpunk
- Habsburg Spain
- harpsichord
- history of Africa
- Icelandic language
- Italian cuisine
- Joseph Goebbels
- Nahuatl
- Norwegian language
- Portuguese language
- Richard O'Connor
- Romanian language
- Sauvignon blanc
- Turkish language
Articles started
- Allmänna idrottsklubben
- Ancient Egyptian cuisine
- Aztec cuisine
- beakhead
- Beate Uhse AG
- Berth Milton, Jr.
- Berth Milton, Sr.
- Bruce Haack
- Caryocar amygdaliferum
- Dagens Industri
- early modern European cuisine
- entremet
- Hans Basbøll
- Hans Villius
- Ida Gerhardt
- Inca cuisine
- Lennart Hyland
- medieval cuisine
- New Swedish
- Nouvelle Vague (band)
- Obol Investment
- Peter Ladefoged
- quarter gallery
- regional cuisines of medieval Europe
- Sci-Fi Skane
- Shona people
- Snook (band)
- Stockholm Public Library
- Stålhammar
- subtlety
- Taba language
- Tukang Besi language
- UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database
- Valrhona
- Västgötalagen
- Wilhelm Burgdorf
Awards
I, MacGyverMagic, hereby award you with an Epic Barnstar for your work on Medieval cuisine - a truly marvellous article which will no doubt be featured on Did You Know pretty soon. - Mgm|(talk) 12:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC) |
A nice cookie for you becuase I could not find a dish of eels in hypocras sauce. In appreciation of your work on Medieval cuisine, Tom Harrison Talk 01:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC) |
This barnstar is awarded for notifying a steward about Robdurbar's vandalism and blatant misuse of his administrator tools, stopping a vandal with sysop tools from doing further damage. Jesse Viviano 03:03, 27 April 2007 (UTC) |
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I, User:Quadell, award you this Golden Wiki for your outstanding contributions to the smoking article. Great job! We need more writers like you! |
I, Durova, am pleased to award the imperial triple crown jewels to Peter Isotalo in recognition of his outstanding contributions to mainspace articles. DurovaCharge! 15:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC) |
Quotes
It is the nature of man to build the most complicated cage of rules and regulations in which to trap himself, and then, with equal ingenuity and zest, to bend his brain to the problem of wriggling triumphantly out again.
– Barbara Henisch, Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society
What the... That's like asking a flock of gulls about where to find something to eat!
– Swedish satirist Jan Berglin about the fact that Wikipedia is written by its own readers
Useful links
- Danish dialect samples at Statsbiblioteket
- Norwegian dialect samples - of limited value due to not being normal conversation
- University of Victoria IPA lab - plenty of sound samples
- Linguistic Discovery
Gallery
A sneaky (and thirsty) friar; medieval cuisine. |
A lovely Danish baked by the excellent pastry chefs of Vete-katten in Stockholm. |
Pölsa is an integral part of northern Swedish cuisine, the Scandinavian equivalent of haggis. Quite simply a type of meat porridge. |
My own homemade vegetarian borscht. |
From my trip to Vancouver (with friends living in Seattle); lovely, scenic Deception Pass. |
Look at those mustaches... One of the founders of modern Swedish, August Strindberg. |
A groovy and very photogenic tunnel at Frankfurt Airport. |
Reading of Alexander Pushkin's "Winter evening" (Зимний вечер ) in Russian. |
No, this is not a Miriam Makeba-remix. It's an example of the difference between the three variants of voiceless bilabial plosives, [p] that is, in Quechua. |
Harbin pronounced in (non-native) Standard Chinese. |
This is how you got to dine if you were a late medieval duke. No one sitting but yourself and your cardinal, surrounded by musicians, servants, guards, carvers, fancy plates, small dogs, chaperons and a truly grand nef (a salt cellar), topped off with a fancy red baldaquin over your noble head. And all of this in a room decorated with the most exquisite tapestry. |