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- Hot climes, lean times
I am trying to direct my nervous energy and diva-like personality towards a job that challenges and fulfills me in a way that public relations never did. Meanwhile, I have been spending time in a pastry kitchen.
Working as a pastry cook in a busy restaurant means that I have some reasonable knife skills. It also […]
- Hysterical Ageusia
I have no idea how to even begin to pronounce “ageusia”, but I can tell you that it’s the medical name for losing your sense of taste.
For six terrifying days, when I was seventeen years old, I stopped tasting. Anything.
No, I didn’t have a cold. Trying to explain ageusia is very frustrating. Almost as frustrating […]
- Some Unusual Breakfast Foods
Yes, I like Spam. I like it, as Hong Kong people do, in soup, with macaroni and frozen mixed vegetables. For breakfast. Preferably with Horlicks (an unfortunately-named malted milk drink, originally from Britain, but now consumed only in former colonies), and puffy toast spread with salted butter and sweetened condensed milk. You can take your […]
- Aerial Rant and Noodle Soup Odyssey, Part I
I’m starting this entry five and a half hours into a fifteen-hour plane ride. Technology! This is the first plane I’ve ever flown in with an electrical outlet at every seat, not to mention enough computer games (crosswords included) to make a nerd like me want the ride to go on just a little longer. […]
