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Written by Russ Johnson
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 Nepal cusine isn't what it used to be. I have dined at wonderful Japanese and Viennese restaurants, I tasted the best apple pie ala mode since my Mom's Minnesota version and experienced something I thought unattainable...Nepalese cuisine that I found just as satisfying as Thai, Indian or Chinese.
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Written by Russell Johnson
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 Fanghsan, located in Beihai Park in Beijing rates as serving up the most courses I have ever had any dinner, anywhere. What were once the Tang Imperial Kitchens brought in a total of 27 courses including Empress Cixi favored Cakes, Bamboo Shoots with Crab Roe, Sharks Fin, Frog-Shaped Abalone and Stewed Deer. There are actually about 800 dishes on the menu.
27 nibbles provides a delicious test of your chopstick dexterity, although knives and forks are also de rigeur in this former royal kitchen.
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Written by Russell Johnson
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”Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow” Frank Zappa
God tipped over the snowglobe and fresh flakes fall, frosting the castle and the Canadian Rockies.
On the banks of the Bow we sit, sprinkled with new snow, un-sullied by foot and tire prints, un-yellowed by cats and dogs. It is the first snow of the season.
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Written by Russell Johnson
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If less is more, what is NOTHING?
Every place I revisit these days --
as little as a year later -- has changed to become almost
unrecognizable. Every little buttcrack town has heard the sucking sound
of globalization with a premium outlet mall, a Starbucks and a KFC/Taco
Bell combo store.
Almost.
I
had not been to Death Valley since 1970. Except for a couple of luxury
hotels, a motel that in any place with trees would be named "The Shady
Rest," lots of huge crows and a passel of coyotes, it could be Mars.
Nothing has changed.
But, in this age where less is more, nothing can be truly something.
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