Sky Soup

food and whimsy.

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Oh, hello turaco--lucky encounter in the aviary of the Taipei Zoo.

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Dreamy fork-tailed flycatcher, via the NYPL Digital Collections!

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Gyoza lace, lunch in the Dotonbori, Osaka.

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Molten lava takoyaki at the Kuromon Market, Osaka. Totally worth the roof of your mouth.

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Gen Yamamoto bar in Tokyo offers a cocktail tasting menu, featuring smaller-than-average cocktails.

Cocktail flights? Custom glassware??? NODnodNODnod...

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Chilinn: a gorgeous little store full of locally made arts and crafts, south of Dotonburi in Osaka.  We made off with too many (or not enough...?) beautiful hand-dyed tenugui.

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An eel restaurant somewhere south of the Dotonburi, Osaka, Japan.

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The Mossy Buddha, Hozen-ji Yokocho (法善寺横丁)--we kind of wandered right into him the night before, and came back to see him in the daylight.

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Clearly I’ve got noodles on the brain, so...weekend project: Poached chicken soup with rice noodles, garlic chives, and lime, with seasoned sesame oil (caramelized garlic, red pepper flakes, sichuan peppercorns).

Kind of a mashup of L&P’s noodle recipe and my own Hainanese chicken rice recipe (to produce the stock and the poached chicken).

Maybe another weekend I’ll up the ante and roll out the noodles, too!

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Poetry Daily - A Featured Poem from the online poetry anthology and bookstore, featuring a new poem every day, and more.

The Halo

In the paintings left to us by the Old Masters, the halo, a smallish cloud of light, clung to the head, carefully framed the faces of mere mortals made divine.

Accident? My body launched by a car's incalculable momentum? It ended up outside the car. I had no idea then what it was like to lose days, to wake and find everything had changed.

Through glass, this body went through the glass window, the seatbelt snapping my neck. Not the hanged man, not a man made divine but more human. I remember those pins buried in my skull,

the cold metal frame surrounding my head, metal reflecting a small fire, a glow. All was changed. In that bed, I was a locust. I was starving. And how could I not be? I, I . . . I am still ravenous.

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The octopus that ruled London - BBC News

For Victorians the octopus inspired terror and apocalyptic visions.

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Don't throw away those premium green tea leaves after you've steeped them—save them for this simple salad perfect over steamed rice or folded into eggs.

Green, herby and downright reeking of spring--plus, I love the idea of using something you’d generally throw away.

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The super-rare Hanyu is inspiring fervor—and big-spending—from ardent collectors.

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you don’t need psilocybin to put the fun in fungi. photos by steve axford. click picture for individual fungal species shown. 

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Simple savory Longevity Noodles (via Lady and Pups, a fabulously angry food blog)

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Beignets & Cafe au Lait @ Cafe du Monde