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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

About the Gelinaz Shuffle

One of my increasingly rare excursions into actually writing stuff that people might want to read; embedded with a top chef as he’s parachuted into a strange kitchen.
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Labels: CNN, food, Thailand, unabashed self-promotion

Wednesday, November 09, 2016

About America


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“The writing itself is no big thing. I mean I like writing. It’s even relaxing for me. But the content is a real zero. Pointless in fact.”
[...]
“So what choice have you got?” she said.
“I don't know. The way I see it, it’s like shoveling snow. You do it because somebody’s got to, not because it's fun.”
“Shoveling snow, huh?” she mused.
“Well, you know, cultural snow,” I said.
—from Dance Dance Dance, by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
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