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Southern European and Latin American friends say things are different where they come from. Where they come from, they say, young adults often live with their parents until they’ve married. Where they come from, families coexist in a cheerful multigenerational chaos that Americans know only from pasta commercials. But American families are, and long have been, less rooted. Most of us will not extend our nuclear families so much as Xerox them with varying degrees of precision...
...things to buy (even if we can't actually afford an SUV). But consumer America is different from political America. In consumer America, diversity of preference is not just tolerated. It is mandatory. The market has created reasons for us to be finicky and dissatisfied about anything - cable TV, pasta sauce, running shoes, yoga programs. It depends on you to like zesty Italian and me to like chipotle ranch and someone else to like low-sodium raspberry honey mustard. Through niche media, niche foods and niche hobbies, we fashion niche lives. We are the America of the iPod ads - stark...
...beautifully restored neo-classical home in the famed old quarter of Plaka. A leg of lamb is pierced with cloves of garlic and then covered with minced tomatoes, olive oil, dried oregano and maybe some thyme, then served with kritharaki, the tear-shaped Greek pasta, and chunks of feta. kokoretsi You need guts to eat this, and guts to make it - specifically, sheep's intestines stuffed with diced offal. Kokoretsi is a mainstay of tavern menus, particularly those along the Vlachika, a famous strip of butchers' tavernas, in the bustling district of Vari on Athens ' southern outskirts. The offal...
Determined, I try again, getting it going for a good three hours while I cook, eat and clean after my dinner (plain pasta boiled with garlic and peanut butter spread over my four remaining meusli bars—mmm!). I manage in the process to go through not only every log in the hut but every stick, twig or leaf in a 10-meter area outside...
...Then descend into the dark depths of acmi, where the other artists dwell. Here Marcus Lyall's video Slow Service, 2003, is essential viewing. Filmed at 1,000 frames a second then played back in excruciating slow motion, a succession of sitters have food thrown in their face - custard, pasta, tomato sauce - offering but a hand or squint in self-defence. Audiences better get used to it. "2004" is a visual pie fight...