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...fair. Two reporters from major metropolitan dailies also were there, asking questions about how a given family felt its lifestyle compared to that of Jessica Lange's and Sally Field's in the movie versions. Their questions were full of trendy jargon that probably went over well with the sushi-set back home but seemed lost on their down-to-earth victims: "Do you see yourself as an independent female role model for all women currently invading the workplace?" one twelve-year-old milkmaid was asked. "Are you a strong, sensitive type?" a man chewing on a chainsaw was queried...
...Neither place is too fancy or expensive, and both serve authentic dishes. For Italian, there's a decent place toward Central Square; La Groceria (853 Main St.), which specializes in North Italian cuisine. For Japanese fare, there's Roka (Eliot St.) a small spot that gets raves from sushi addicts. Also check-out the Square's newcomer Cafe Sushi (1105 Mass. Ave). The place sounds French, but the food is authentic and not too expensive. For Mexican fans, there's cafeteria-style (and -priced) Paco's Tacos (50 JFK St.). Another fast food spot is Tacomaker (JFK across from...
...most obvious exception being Japanese food. Like French cuisine, the Japanese style was first made popular by gastronomic trendsetters -- chefs in fashionable restaurants, fancy-food stores and the food press. French and American chefs, experimenting with nouvelle cuisine, became fascinated by the aesthetics of Japanese food. Japanese restaurateurs and sushi masters came $ to the U.S. in response to a demand that had already been created...
...TIME WHEN East Asian Studies, sushi bars, and visas to China are becoming increasingly trendy items, there reappears on the literary horizon an important and previously "lost" work whose intellectual voyage takes one back to the origins of the West's Oriental fascination. Raymond Schwab's book is a major critical undertaking whose ambitious task is reinterpreting a self-conscious moment crucial in the development of contemporary western civilization and thought. Quoting Friedrich Schlegel's quest, "we must seek the Supreme Romanticism in the Orient," Schwab's original hypothesis attempts, with compelling evidence, to trace 19th century Europe's Romantic...
Agreed Kenneth Grullon '86. "Why don't they just hang some sushi...