Even in health-conscious California it’s not so easy to live a vegetarian lifestyle. Sure, it’s easy enough to find one or two items on any menu when I try a new restaurant in a carnivore’s world (and it’s definitely still a carnivore’s world out there), but most likely my choices are limited to salmon a la something or to a …
Any Hardware Would Do
Well, I wasn’t disappointed. It was well past midnight by the time they showed the medal ceremony for the ice dancing competition but it was worth putting off sleep. I would have given out three gold medals last night. The competition was that good. But in the end, the right teams were on the podium without any controversy. And I …
Team Lysacek or Team Plushenko
The Vancouver winter Olympics this year is practically in my backyard (well, it’s on the west coast) but NBC is still doing tape delay in my time zone. So it’s been tough to stay off the internet in order to watch the events before the results are released everywhere. What’s tougher is watching some of the events start after 10pm …
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My New Year Valentine
It’s rare that two holidays fall on the same day, but today we get to celebrate both Lunar New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day. Tradition has it that you are supposed to do today what you’d like for the rest of your year to be. Which means no working, no bickering, and no spending money unless it’s for eating out …
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Year Of The Tiger
By the time you read this the Year of the Tiger has already begun in Asia. Here in LA, it is just the eve of Tết (Vietnamese lunar new year) so I’ll take a quick break from the FIMTSO series to blog about one of our new year traditions: the bánh chÆ°ng, a salty cake made of glutinous rice stuffed …