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| 37477bf | Dairy Chiko, in the basement of Nakano Broadway, is a surrealist ice cream shop known for octuple-decker soft-serve cones. You can also order a smaller cone with less than one billion calories, but the draw at Dairy Chiko is watching how other people eat their towering cones of vanilla, yuzu, milk tea, matcha, ramune, orange, strawberry, and chocolate (flavors may vary). Walking while eating is taboo in Japan, and Dairy Chiko has no seating.. | ice-cream japan tokyo | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| 26483f1 | The most obvious difference between Japanese and American ice cream bars is that if the Japanese bar promises something crispy, it will damn well be crispy. The Haagen-Dazs Crispy Sandwich, for example, is a slim bar of ice cream between two delicate wafers. How do they keep the wafers from getting soggy? Is it a layer of shellac? Maybe it's best not to ask. Crepes, soft but not mushy, are also a frequent player in ice cream bars. Near the .. | ice-cream ice-cream-sandwiches | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| dec7760 | For my first home-cooked meal in Tokyo, I took an assortment of beautiful Japanese ingredients and did what came naturally: I made Chinese food. I stir-fried some beautifully marbled (Berkshire breed) pork with bok choy, ginger, and leeks, sauced it with soy sauce, mirin, and vinegar, and served it over rice, sprinkled with seven-spice mixture. This seemed like a reasonable act of Japanese-Chinese fusion. I made some quick-pickled cucum.. | cucumbers homecooking japanese-food spongebob-squarepants stirfry | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| 00af54d | But Tokyo offers cat cafes, a commercial solution to the problem of wanting to commune with cats but being unwilling or unable to have one at home. Iris's favorite cat cafe is Nekorobi, in the Ikebukuro neighborhood. When I first heard about cat cafes, I imagined something like Starbucks with a cat on your lap. Wrong. Nekorobi is what you'd get if you asked a cat-obsessed kid to draw a floorplan of her dream apartment: a bathroom, a drink v.. | cat-cafe cats japan nekorobi | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| d6a1106 | Iris and I will eat at a skeezy yakitori joint and enjoy char-grilled chicken parts on a stick. We'll go to an eel restaurant and eat several courses of eel, my favorite fish. Iris's favorite is mackerel, , tearing off fatty bits with our chopsticks. We will eat our weight in rice... we'll have breakfast at Tsukiji, the world's largest fish market. And we'll eat plenty of sushi from a conveyor belt. | rice sushi tokyo vacation-plans yakitori | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| a0ebebd | We did go to a skeezy yakitori place, however, which is where Iris discovered , chicken tail, the fattest, juiciest bit of the chicken, and the best to grill on a stick and brush with sweetened soy sauce. | chicken yakitori | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| e4a10be | Japan is obsessed with French pastry. Yes, I know everyone who has access to French pastry is obsessed with it, but in Tokyo they've taken it another level. When a patissier becomes sufficiently famous in Paris, they open a shop in Tokyo; the department store food halls feature Pierre Herme, Henri Charpentier, and Sadaharu Aoki, who was born in Tokyo but became famous for his Japanese-influenced pastries in Paris before opening shops in his.. | desserts french fruit-flavors pastries pastry-chef patisserie tokyo | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| eb63513 | We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| fc81a1f | Something about Tokyo's exuberant modernism made Iris and me feel like the city existed just to make us happy: the waving cats seemed to whisper. Iris and I came back with a list of Tokyo attractions we never made it to on our first trip, a list about a month long. And we started to drive Laurie insane by breaking into misty-eyed reminiscences about our cherry blossom days in Japan. | Matthew Amster-Burton | ||
| de9bdb8 | Finally, let's talk about those Kit Kat bars. There is no flavor that can be embodied in Kit Kat form and sold in Japanese stores. Green tea. Black tea. Miso. Cherry blossom. Soy sauce. Toasted soybean powder ( ). Chile. Orange. Melon. Only a few are available at any given time, and right now, evil geniuses at Nestle are coming up with new flavors. I'd like to suggest okonomiyaki flavor, which would consist of a bag of assorted flavors (gin.. | fruity japan kitkats natural-flavors | Matthew Amster-Burton | |
| 5019bd1 | He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| dcd4689 | In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| ec7858a | Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| 9be242e | Without your sheep, you would have no livelihood, you would die. This dependency creates a sort of equality, doesn't it? Not individually, but collectively. As a group, you and your sheep are at opposite sides of a seesaw, and somewhere in between there is a fulcrum. You must maintain the balance. In that sense, we are no better than they. | veganism | Yann Martel | |
| 53524b9 | I don't hold with all this washing. This modern Behind-the-ears nonsense. | Nonsense | ||
| 673cedc | shelf, stand mountains of neatly stacked cans and packages. A reserve of food to last the siege of Leningrad. CHAPTER 7 It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head and lit a match. | Yann Martel | ||
| 7780bfe | The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| a214401 | The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense. | Nonsense | ||
| 7af2361 | The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. | Alexis de Tocqueville | ||
| 7409f05 | It seemed to her the diabolical instrument of their estrangement. | Edith Wharton | ||
| c237351 | if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to--to offensive insinuations--'' She | Edith Wharton | ||
| d5d8fdc | He started to walk across the Common, and on the first bench, under a tree, he saw her sitting. She had a gray silk sunshade over her head--how could he have ever imagined her with a pink one? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 86206ca | I wonder what her fate will be?'' ''What we've all contrived to make it,'' he | Edith Wharton | ||
| c78844e | Some human happiness is a landlocked lake; but the Grancys' was an open sea, stretching a buoyant and inimitable surface to the voyaging interests of life. There was room to spare on those waters for all our separate ventures; and always, beyond the sunset, a mirage of the fortunate isles toward which our prows were bent. | happiness marriage | Edith Wharton | |
| 1391fec | Why could one never do a natural thing without having to screen it behind a structure of artifice? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 7810904 | Week after week he swung between the extremes of hope and dejection, | Edith Wharton | ||
| a5b5e21 | Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five. "Oh, Ethan, it's time!" she cried. He drew her back to him. "Time for what? You don't suppose I'm going to leave you now?" "If I missed my train where'd I go?" "Where are you going if you catch it?" She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his. "What's the good of either of us going anywheres without the other one now?" he said." | suicide-attempt tragic-love-story | Edith Wharton | |
| fde0f6b | est' mnogo sposobov otvetit' na pis'mo -- i, kak ni stranno, pisat' -- eto ne moi sposob. (Nik Lensing - Siuzi Branch) | Edith Wharton | ||
| 8df15ee | The party was made up of what Mrs. Trenor called "poky people"--her generic name for persons who did not play bridge--and, it being her habit to group all such obstructionists in one class, she usually invited them together, regardless of their other characteristics. The result was apt to be an irreducible combination of persons having no other quality in common than their abstinence from bridge, and the antagonisms developed in a group lac.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5352894 | a frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 6be8c04 | The extravagance in dress--" Miss Jackson began. "Sillerton took me to the first night of the Opera, and I can only tell you that Jane Merry's dress was the only one I recognised from last year; and even that had had the front panel changed. Yet I know she got it out from Worth only two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them." | Edith Wharton | ||
| a364e54 | Yes; she's one of the few. In my youth," Miss Jackson rejoined, "it was considered vulgar to dress in the newest fashions; and Amy Sillerton has always told me that in Boston the rule was to put away one's Paris dresses for two years. Old Mrs. Baxter Pennilow, who did everything handsomely, used to import twelve a year, two velvet, two satin, two silk, and the other six of poplin and the finest cashmere. It was a standing order, and as she .. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 61d6152 | he wonders whether young women raised under such restrictive conditions can ever overcome the disadvantage of deliberately engineered lacunae in their mental, moral, and emotional development. The | Edith Wharton | ||
| ccd1512 | As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure? | Edith Wharton | ||
| 94ac577 | He went on to praise the company they had just left, declaring that he knew no better way for a young man to form his mind than by frequenting the society of men of conflicting views and equal capacity. "Nothing," said he, "is more injurious to the growth of character than to be secluded from argument and opposition; as nothing is healthier than to be obliged to find good reasons for one's beliefs on pain of surrendering them." | Edith Wharton | ||
| 54e048f | The bravest mob of independent fighters has little chance against a handful of disciplined soldiers, and the Church is perfectly logical in seeing her chief danger in the Encyclopaedia's systematised marshalling of scattered truths. As long as the attacks on her authority were isolated, and as it were sporadic, she had little to fear even from the assaults of genius; but the most ordinary intellect may find a use and become a power in the r.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 888ec2c | But the long hours of mechanical drudgery were telling on his active body and undisciplined nerves. He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life; and after the long dull days in the office the evenings at his grandfather's whist-table did not give him the counter-stimulus he needed. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e4f60bf | is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions. | Edith Wharton | ||
| 266f421 | running to and fro with trays of refreshments. Odo, who knew that his mother lived in the Duke's palace, had vaguely imagined that his father's death must have plunged its huge precincts into silence and mourning; but as he followed the abate up successive flights of stairs and down long corridors full of shadow he heard a sound of dance music below and caught the flash of girandoles through the antechamber doors. The thought that his fathe.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| e01908f | The contrast to his life of subjection at Donnaz; the precocious initiation into motives that tainted the very fount of filial piety; the taste of this mingled draught of adulation and disillusionment, might have perverted a nature more self-centred than his. From this perversion, and from many subsequent perils he was saved by a kind of imaginative sympathy, a wondering joy in the mere spectacle of life, that tinged his most personal impre.. | Edith Wharton | ||
| d779dd2 | Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her. | unhappiness | Edith Wharton | |
| 0117948 | He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler. | henry-james | Jennie Fields | |
| eb13d41 | Santiaguinos | Isabel Allende | ||
| faa5236 | The bravest mob of independent fighters has little chance against a handful of disciplined soldiers, and the Church is perfectly logical in seeing her chief danger in the Encyclopaedia's systematised marshalling of scattered truths. As long as the attacks on her authority were isolated, and as it were sporadic, she had little to fear even from the assaults of genius; but the most ordinary intellect may find a use and become a power in the r.. | Edith Wharton |