I found Gmba's style the first time around a bit feverish but funny, which is the vibe I got on Common Things. Wait, am I remembering this wrong? Hold...
Maybe I went too far there; but the end of the human race (am I remembering the story right/wrong?) didn't feel like @"Wayfarer". The sci-fi of course...
My guesses for now: The Christmas That Was Not - @"jamalrob" A Cross For Maria - @"Baden" Felice - @"180 Proof" A Christmas Valentines Day Love Story ...
That's fine. The difference here, that I feel should be made, is that you're interfacing with the Tao Te Ching in a religious sense. No need to get de...
But you were deeply moved by someone's translation of that document from an ancient language bearing scant resemblances at best to English; not by the...
I'm not a big eel fan, but had it as the final piece in an Omakase recently, and did enjoy it. It was still the same strange flavor I remember, though...
Taking the discussion to ancient Chinese poetry (if it can be called that in the western sense) certainly takes things to a very specific place. I lik...
It can be, but it's not in the zeitgeist any longer. To an extent it still does, but the problem with poetry specifically is it's obvious reliance on ...
There's not really a recipe, but she still makes it. Here's the video. Just be sure to use 2 teaspoons of salt rather than 2 tablespoons.... https://y...
I know you're well traveled, and I'm assuming you've had it in Naples, which I haven't. The best Neapolitan pizza I've had has been here in NY, but I ...
I only tried to make my own pizza as adult once, and I used a recipe given in a youtube video and subsequently written down by a youtube commenter, wh...
Judging by your post earlier, if you haven't been to NY, the traditional style is a crust that's crispier than Neapolitan, thinner, broader, but still...
I'm overwhelmed by the questions, but I'll let my inner pizza speak. Yes, I'm disgustingly spoiled by how much good pizza exists within an hours commu...
I love novels, so I hope you're right...but what you're referring to is a glut of novelists, which is what we have in the music industry; a glut of mu...
Isn't Dan Brown loved now? Assuming he hasn't reached academe yet. He very well may have. The "best of their kind" in the fiction world now are probab...
I think the bare minimum value of a tradition is it's ability to be questioned. Through questioning, it may be done away with, or it may grow stronger...
When I say "songwriting tradition", I'm not referring to a tradition in the sense of something that's perceived as unchanging, or that "should not" ch...
Interesting, didn't know that. 4-5 doesn't sound like much for a large city, true. The platonic ideal of a New York slice (i.e. you order it by the sl...
:lol: Bagels you can have very good luck with; just go wherever is nearby.... nah, you have to know what to look for. Katz's really is worth the hype ...
Yes, defining the standards is difficult (and it's not an actual concrete process of "defining"; see the "organically drawn" standards I mentioned). T...
Is that what we have? I have no idea. Are there smoked but unsalted fishes? That seems weird. I know Gravlax is a weird variation here that also invol...
I think it's equally true that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", and that there are aesthetic standards within disciplines. They're not mutually...
I think in NYC, with lox, there's some confusion on what constitutes "real" lox (I think smoked?) versus the type that's cured but not smoked. I don't...
Had to google trout and didn't realize it's also red-fleshed; I wonder if the two are pretty similar. I'm embarrassingly behind on making my way to th...
I don't have an exact answer to this, but one rubric in evaluating an aesthetic work is a relatively high level of familiarity with the specific art f...
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