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While googling around for recipes today, I stumbled upon this outburst: One warning about Vietnamese food….fish sauce!!! It is one of their favorite seasonings…. The waiter said to me “fish sauce vegetarian!!” and when I explained that I did not want the fish sauce and could he ask the cook to leave it out, he again said, in a…
posted at 1:13 AM | comments (9) | food, misc
I love rice! Not the university, which put me on their “waiting list,” not the band, though they’re not bad, but rice, the food. Rice. I like rice. Basmati rice, Texmati rice, jasmine rice, Spanish rice, arborio rice and risotto, sticky rice with mangoes, peppers stuffed with rice, rice soup, Rice-A-Roni, even Rice Chex. I like rice cookers, rice…
posted at 8:50 PM | comments (4) | food, misc
While at the beach last Saturday, I dreamt of cream of mushroom beer. I was working as a waiter at a dim and tiny Japanese restaurant, moving from table to table, killing each patron. I don’t remember how. Every victim became a miniature rubber doll. No points of articulation. I would bring the dolls to the maitre d’, and…
posted at 6:39 PM | comments (1) | dreams, food