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...definitions, and she appears to relish the rich ambiguity resulting from this blurring of binaries creates.Sen also examines culture through the lens of consumption: food, recipes, and other food-related texts. She asks, smiling, “How does an entire region or nation become ‘spicy??? What does it mean to be spicy?” While amusing on the surface, these seemingly comic questions lead into much bigger inquiries into the history of colonialism, the spice trade, issues of class and gender, and the words that artists choose to represent cultures. She says...
...special homemade tomato sauce.” The best bargain is the Lunch Special, served Monday through Thursday until 3 p.m.—$4.76 for a bowl of miso soup, and beef or chicken curry served with unlimited rice. The curry is substantial, sweet and spicy??the slivers of carrots and thin shreds of pork are cloaked by a cinnamon-brown sauce and served atop sticky rice...
...yellow curry emblazoned with a cautionary star (“spicy??) was, at least to my desensitized, spice-assailed palate, only faintly challenging, and had a number of irrelevant vegetables cluttering up the dish (although on hindsight perhaps they were meant to temper the spiciness, such as it is): pineapples, potatoes and cherry tomatoes. The traditional accompaniments, I believe, are tiny Thai eggplants—mini-grenades of acridity, the size of a blueberry, spurting an intensely bitter juice when bitten. But the curry itself was smooth and velvety, laden with an appropriately immoderate amount of coconut milk...
...real thing, but it comes close. It makes adjustments in dishes where the full deal would probably repel the more spice-resistant. For the more intrepid, however, the unmitigated experience is there to hazard; just look out for the clearly-posted signs: two stars (“Hot and Spicy??), or the telltale names (“Seafood Kamikaze?...
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