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What may strike us as most remarkable about contemporary authors Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami is the relative familiarity of the world they write about - the fact that they don't seem tortured by the question of Japan's position relative to the rest of the world. When the heroine of Yoshimoto's Kitchen mixes Japanese and French dishes in her menus, she's not making a point about cultural miscegenation. The deadpan Yoshimoto seems to be merely reporting how people eat in Tokyo...
...discussions. (For those of you PSLM members who are starting to fume and feel that sending me a nasty e-mail is the best way to release that anger, just count to 10, then think of rainbows and little tweeting parakeets, and then go buy yourself a fudge-covered banana split. See, that wasn’t so hard...
...their own neat categories: Chinese, Japanese, Siamese. They represent the sanctity of our nation-states, our flags, our soccer teams. After all, if you're not one or the other, what are you? If you're, say, half Asian and half Western, where do you belong? Are you a banana: yellow on the outside and white inside? Or an egg: white on the outside and yellow inside? Or are you, as proclaimed by that most swirled of celebrities Tiger Woods, a "Cablinasian"?a Caucasian-black-Indian-Asian smattering of everything, a global progeny of an increasingly global world? And what...
...hour upstream by canoe is the island of Don Khong. There a French colonial house with a spacious veranda overlooking a garden of mango trees has been transformed into the 24-room Auberge Sala Done Khong ($20-$30). Feast at the restaurant on succulent Mekong fish steamed in banana leaves. Both rest houses are owned by Auberges Sala Lao, tel: (856-31) 212725. From Don Khong take a bus to Pakse (three hours) and continue to Vientiane or cross into Thailand, an hour away...
Here's a medical pop quiz: Frick and Frack are friends who sport matching spare tires around their waists. Frick goes to Weight Watchers and loses 30 lbs.; Frack goes to the ice-cream parlor and downs a triple banana split every day for a month. So who will live longer? Anybody with a clue about obesity knows that conscientious Frick has lowered his risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke. Frack has done exactly the opposite...