“. . . the desire her whole person expressed was that of communicating to me what she was tasting: communicating with me through flavors, or communicating with flavors through a double set of taste buds, hers and mine. . . .”
Italo Calvino, "Under the Jaguar Sun."

Outside NYC

Albanian Food at Çka Ka Qëllu

New York City has a surprisingly large Albanian population. I first became aware of this when I was at a COVID test site at LaGuardia Airport and saw the list of languages for which the test site had interpreters. I recognized most of the languages, but the one that stood out as unusual was called […]

Le Petit Cafe: Cambodian food in Lowell, MA

New York City, despite its wealth of immigrant cuisines, is almost completely devoid of Cambodian restaurants (the one exception being the sandwich minichain Num Pang). In fact, the nearest large Cambodian community is in Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell has the second-largest Cambodian population in the US (behind Long Beach, California) and has a wealth of Cambodian […]

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