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December 13, 2006

shape-shifter

Hi Sarah!

I'm headed our way: WEST!

Yes, I know you were being ironic and I think I was, too, though I also was addressing how love of food (as you have these past few months) can be influenced by regionality, nationality, and politics: funnel cake, beef-on-a-stick, and calamari. That's how I feel about tofu, which in many ways is the "perfect" food: textureless but by artifce, itself flavorless, yet pregnant with the flavors in which it stews.

Tofu is Zen.

Plus, Imagine feeling xenonationalism and Asian pride at the culinary and horticultural triumph of the mass cultivation of tofu. Is tofu production environment-friendly?

So, revelations and self-indexing, but not serious.

Today, I spent all day working on a letter of recommendation and an half. How is that possible?

Let's talk when my travel's done.

Much love,

Johnnie