I had a terrible craving for ramen the other day, due to my inability to have some ramen when I was in Hong Kong. Sounds strange, but my logic assumes that Hong Kong is close enough to Japan to shelter some bona-fide ramen masters.
I ended up making my own. My maternal grandmother gave me A [...]
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While it actually started snowing this past weekend, it didn’t begin snowing steadily until today. Watching the snow outside - lazy, large, and loose is best kind - I thought about eating candy. Unfortunately, I’ve been sucking on zinc lozenges in an attempt to ward off the cold so my tongue felt thick, coated, and [...]
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The Lunchroom rebellion
by Burkhard Bilger
The New Yorker, Sept, 2006
The lunch ladies of my elementary-school memories in Oklahoma are a stout, sweet-tempered breed. They wear cat’s-eye glasses and have beauty-shop perms, with hairnets drawn taut across their foreheads. They have gray uniforms and dishwater complexions, and stand in line dolloping out grayish food—boiled okra, spinach with [...]
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