Word: crisped
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Bookstores are a luxury, really, that everyone has the right and the ability to enjoy. Browsing the aisles, scanning the myriad titles, running admiring fingers over the colorful glossy covers that conceal treasures of literature and poetry and Romance for Dummies, turning the pages of a crisp New Yorker and lounging in the cafe with a latte and a brand-new copy of The Secret History—these are the essences of a luxury that most of us (sadly, unfortunately, tragically) never take advantage of. There’s something infinitely tempting and tantalizing about a new book?...
Novels about the discrimination suffered by Asians in America tend to be melodramatic affairs calculated to get readers reaching for tissues rather than insight. Julie Otsuka's first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, is a crisp departure from the Asian-American sobfest. Otsuka's tale of the disintegration of a Japanese-American family during World War II offers a powerful indictment of government-sponsored paranoia that has implications for today's U.S. war on terror...
...descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop her. Fate, fueled by misguided desire, carries the characters on its wheel, through good and ill and back again. Nothing, Upadhyay suggests with his crisp yet melancholy words, is ever really possessed, yet nothing?not even love?is ever truly lost...
...Looks like someone’s been a naughty girl!” crows Pappas. He’s caught Falkner eating her apple crisp before the ham and ravioli. The ravioli, says Pappas, is a great treat, but riddled with sodium. Same with the ham. Despite his initial suspicion, by the end of the conversation, Falkner is in Pappas’ good graces. “She’s a sweet young girl. She deserves the apple crisp...
Floating Rock rewards the adventurous eater—Frog Legs with Spices was the richest dish we tried, cooked in a paste of blended spices and peppers. But for a true taste of Cambodia, go for prahok in all its forms. Long Bean Salad, with crisp beans and heavy use of fermented fish, is one of the most unusually flavored things I’ve ever eaten and quickly becomes addictive. For Cambodian comfort food at its best, Prahok with Coconut Milk, a concoction used as a dip for fresh vegetables, is absolutely unforgettable. The smell may take some getting...