I’m in the process of moving my Japan blog over from Blogger to WordPress. Since I originally wrote it on the very old version of Blogger, WordPress’s magic import feature didn’t work, so I’m having to transfer things over one post at a time, cutting and pasting manually. This has given me a chance to [...]
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Five Years Ago
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The political history of food
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More from Oracle Bones, on the historical baggage our innocent take-out dinners can carry. The author is accompanying his Uighur (Chinese minority) immigrant friend on delivery rounds in DC:
Many customers were lawyers working late; they came down, bleary-eyed, fumbling with wallets and purses. None of them looked at us twice. It would have been a lot [...]
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