Possibly the best part of this essay:
My mother, a Swedish Lutheran, liked to ask her five children, “What have you accomplished today?” If I’d told her, “I have eaten thirty-seven courses and drunk thirteen wines,” I would have been cast into outer darkness. But then this was the Iron Mom, who also said, with a [...]
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I really enjoyed reading the 2005 editions of Best American Whatevers because they contained so many pieces about food. I love food; not only do I like eating it and cooking it, but I also like reading about it, particularly Jim Harrison’s “A Really Big Lunch,” which covers his adventure on eating a thirty-seven course [...]
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One more interview with Hayao Miyazaki with Devin Gordon discussing his latest movie at the time, Howl’s Moving Castle. This interview is not as in-depth as the Talbot interview, being only a few lines. With such a rare opportunity, I wish Gordon had prodded Miyazaki more deeply about his thoughts on Howl’s Moving Castle and [...]
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