We now have a gum rack. (Click to make it bigger.) It's one of those old-fashioned things that used to be in your corner store, you know? Since I found this one, abandoned along 20th street, I have been experimenting with how to use it. I'm thinking it might make a good plant holder on my back porch.
Last night, we made this dinner -- salmon, broiled with sliced yellow onions on top; pasta with many spices; and baby artichokes boiled until they are soft enough that you can suck out their interiors without even bothering to peel away the leaves.
For appetizers, we ate seaweed, which Junko claims is turning my hair black -- back to how it used to be.
Today I took her to Costco. She'd heard of it, from other Japanese, but the actual experience freaked her out. She kept saying that she felt "overwhelmed" and "dizzy."
Here in the center of capitalistic excess, her reaction was an honest one, that of a human being unaccustomed to the food orgy many Americans feel so entitled to. Japanese men and women remain small, slender, and youthful-looking in ways almost unimaginable in America.
Meanwhile, we all become more obese.
Why? Stay tuned. We'll be having much more to say about this subject in the future...You heard it here first -- a new book will be emerging.
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