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...know my name,” “Yellow Submarine,” most of Sgt Pepper (including that bit at the end where you just hear the mopheads laughing and talking), “Bungalow Bill” and threw in some Plastic Ono tracks for good measure. Twenty-two tracks of it. It’s long, unremitting and opaque, and even the cool cartoon album cover artwork by David Barnes, (presumably brother of Kevin, the brains behind the band) which extends to an entire booklet and foldout poster, cannot redeem it (even the musical interpretation...
...Humphries, along with teammate Jill Ono, deserves special credit for having played over the weekend. Both played on the team last year, but elected to focus on swimming this year instead. Injuries, though, kept the duo from participating in either sport most of the winter...
...label Sono, you'd call it French with a Japanese accent. Ono, a burly Tokyo native with slicked-back hair and a beard, trained at the four-star L'Orangerie in Los Angeles. "Japanese cuisine is a cuisine of ingredients; French cuisine is one of technique," he explains. "So I combine the two. I'll take pompano and marinate it in miso, which preserves and enhances the flavor. That's very Japanese. Then I'll turn to French technique in how I cook it." Ono points to his salmon dish: he cures the fish with salt and ginger, adds...
...Ono concedes such extreme tampering with traditional recipes would be viewed as not quite kosher in Japan. But as Nish of March sees it, mixing and matching international cuisines is what Americans do best. Like many Americans, Nish himself is a mix. His ancestry happens to include Japanese (the name Nish is short for Nishimura, changed by his father to duck anti-Japanese sentiment). Growing up in Queens, Nish watched his father and his Maltese mother try to recreate dishes from home. "They always had to substitute ingredients," he recalls. "But that didn't mean the dish had less integrity...
...Ono found this out the hard way when he opened his restaurant last year. His first dessert menu offered kuzukiri, glassine noodles made from the starch of kudzu leaves. It flopped. "Alas," he says, "they were not ready...