I don’t shy from exotic food – in fact it is one reason I love traveling. A blog post on BoingBoing.net reminded me that one of the fruits I grew accustomed to in my 5 + years living in S.E.…
Beef tendon soup
Common in Chinese cooking, and a frequent ingredient in Vietnamese Pho soups, Beef Tendon is surprisingly tasty and a texture not found in western food. My son refers to it as “beef gummy,” and it’s one of my “go to”…
Wild Fruit
Wild plums are in season, and while I like the idea of wild fruit (they tend to be loaded with anti-oxidants) I haven’t decided what to do with these. Most that we picked were under-ripe, because the ripe fruit falls…
Linguistic integrity? Royal order of linguistic prejudice?
People often assume to know my position on English Only laws and proposals – but my take is nuanced and complicated. Linguistic integrity is an interesting idea – but it hasn’t been tried yet. WHY do Asian menus refer to…
audience and voice: this blog
Just checked google analytics to see how much traffic this blog gets and from where. Interestingly, the summer has seen an increase in traffic, and though we’ve always gotten a strong following from Alaska – China has come on lately…
Day trips: the Nelson
Recognize the Day lilies at the right? They c0mprise less than 10 % of the space of one of my favorite paintings by arguably the greatest painter of the 20th century. The portrait (?) is a contemporary interpretation of a…
Taste test: Lilies
I’ve eaten lilies in soups, but only recently learned those same lilies grew almost wild. The same lilies you find around old farms and homesteads are tasty – and a surprising number of sites offer recipes, advice and information.Some say…
Critiquing layout and design: Message fail?
This billboard faces the east-bound lane of I-70 just outside of Topeka, KS. My wife and I used to look forward to the last image on this board – it said, “Superpower your baby” and had a badly photoshopped greased/…
food: Korean
One of the best parts of any trip through Springfield MO is a stop Golden Korean Restaurant (map). Korean meals come with the traditional 5-6 small dishes that make the experience fun. The soft tofu soup (with a raw egg…
In America, there are no small eggs.
We do something illogical with in American culture regarding our language used to describe sizes. An Ivy League educated linguist I worked for in Taiwan used to ponder about this, and ask me, “Why, in America, don’t you have small…