Month: May 2022
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Food is Art
The mimosa is brunch’s popular cocktail. Made with Champagne and orange juice, it’s named after the beautiful mimosa flower for its bright yellow hue. But did you know that there is another cocktail made in a similar manner, of Prosecco and white peach juice, called the Bellini. The story of how its name came upon…
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On Reading
There’s much concern around reading. It’s demonstrated through the anxieties around our children’s ability to read – how soon, how much, and how fast. And we’re right to be concerned. Reading is the most basic and low-cost, yet has the power to change the world. Not just about a passing school grade, but being able…
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Hồ Xuân Hương’s Poetry
About 200 years ago, there was a Vietnamese poet named Hồ Xuân Hương. Born into a culture heavily influenced by Confucianism, during a time when women were to abide to the three obediences and the four virtues, she had the audacity to write poetry that was as sexual as obnoxious. For a kid reading her…
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Poetry
Some folks, including myself, find it difficult to understand poetry. A big part of it is sentence structure, which does not align closely to speech the way a novel does. Classical poetry conforms to rules and forms, but modern poetry, especially the free-verse kind, hardly does. Another reason is missing context, the lack of knowledge…
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