Japan is renowned for its healthy people. Its national diet of fish, rice and vegetables, coupled with healthy doses of green tea, is lauded for being packed with antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids, and other things that sound vaguely good for you. It shows in terms of longevity and vitality, as old Japanese folk remain active [...]
My daily commute to and from work in Palma takes me through a wide and variegated slice of ciutat (“city”), as Majorcans are apt to call it. It weaves from my apartment in the immigrant-heavy Pere Garau neighborhood, through the old city, through neighborhoods trendy and trashy, as far west as one can go on [...]
The first time I came across Lucky’s, it was in the afternoon and the lights were off. I could barely see into the dark interior, a serpentine breakfast counter of questionable upkeep, but the old-timey Americana feel had me before I ever took a step inside. Lucky’s looked like my kind of place.
Then I saw [...]
Some of you already know that I’ve been working over the last few months on the staff of New York’s Asian American International Film Festival. The screenings, workshops and parties all begin this Thursday night, and as a result I’ve been put out of commission as a food blogger for this week and possibly the [...]
In a particularly demonstrative scene of Lost in Translation, washed up movie star Bob Harris is asked to swirl his whisky and pout several times, in different ways, to capture the perfect image of the Suntory man. His director seems to be rather unsatisfied, as he wants Bob to, “With wholehearted feeling, slowly, look at [...]
Comrades,
Four items of note…
1. The Eaten Path will continue its expansion this week with the addition of its second overseas correspondent! Although she currently lives and works in Beijing, international economist Victoria Lai will be writing a series of columns documenting her travels to Japan and Taiwan. Her column will appear every other Friday, alternating [...]
I remember once reading an article about the American palette that claimed America’s favorite flavor was ‘crispy’. Synesthetic quips aside, there’s a certain truth to this assertion, and I think that it’s not in any way limited to those of us who hail from the United States. As sure as the sky is blue and [...]
Since moving to New York, I’ve eaten a startlingly scarce amount of Indian food. This may have to do with the fact that I used to live near two quality South Indian restaurants and worked in the thick of an Indian culinary paradise; having absorbed my fair share of masala spices over seven years on [...]
I have a confession to make. If you start interrogating me on the ins and outs of fish tacos, you’re going to make things awkward between us. If that’s the case, my apologies in advance, because I just haven’t had that many tacos pescado in my life, and I’m the only one to blame. As [...]
I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled upon Can Angel, but it was relatively soon after I arrived here, quite possibly a random encounter while wandering the circuitous alleys of Palma’s medieval center. Regardless of how I arrived there, it became very quickly my favorite place to go out in Palma. It is informal. It [...]
