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...KOBE...
REVERSE LAYUPS WHILE WEDGED between defenders. Fadeaway jumpers in traffic. Three-pointers shot from Catalina. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant hit them all one Hollywood night in January, scoring 81 points, the second highest total in NBA history (Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 in 1962), in the Lakers' 122-104 win over the Toronto Raptors. In the second half alone, Bryant outscored the entire Toronto team...
...flying in speciality vegetables and Kyoto's soft water for the signature clear soup. He trawls from Iceland to Madagascar for fantastic fish. Grated Shizuoka wasabi - not that fake electric-green paste - accompanies the tsukuri, a sashimi course elaborately composed on handmade ceramics. Fragrant matsutake mushrooms evoke autumn, while Kobe beef melts in the mouth like foie gras. Dishes like sesame tofu are nods to Kyoto's Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. At the end comes the spiritual heart of the meal: rice, pickles and the best miso soup around. If Umu sounds traditional, it isn't. The reinvented Kyoto flavors...
...Scotland, migrated alone to Canada at 21 and have had the privilege of working and living in Libya, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan and Japan. As a global citizen, I count myself fortunate to have learned so much about humanity from the diverse places I have lived. Ian A.M. Robertson Kobe, Japan Liam Fitzpatrick's article, "Noodling together," about the intersection of Italian and Chinese food in Hong Kong, was interesting, but the notion that Hong Kong kids are "pestering their parents for 'Italian wontons' (ravioli)" seems to have dropped from the sky. People in Hong Kong are more accustomed to eating...
...three summers to prepare for this year's World's, next year's Olympic qualifiers, if needed, and the 2008 Games in Beijing. This group balances perhaps the three best players on the globe--the Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade, the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James and the L.A. Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who's sidelined for Japan by knee surgery-- with non-ball-hogging role players like Bruce Bowen and Shane Battier...