Month: March 2024
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Stock & Broth
The difference between broth and stock is not apparent. Some say stock is made of the animal’s bones, while broth is made from its meat. Others say broth is a reduced stock with additional aromatics and seasonings. Call it a broth or a stock, it is an essential potable in the kitchen, whether as a…
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Loose Screw
The first time I heard the phrase, “art follows money,” was during a guided tour of the Hearst Castle, built in 1919 by the media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Resting on a 40-thousand acre hilly estate with a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean, it was described as “this is what God would have built…
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The Ideal Woman
Among the first movies I watched after immigrating to the U.S. was The Secret Garden, bedecked with beautiful garden footage in springtime. It’s the story of an unruly orphaned girl, Mary, who moved back to England from India when her parents died. Since no one taught her how to be a proper English girl in…
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Women In Vietnamese Literature
I have previously written about the Vietnamese poet Hồ Xuân Hương, who was truly an outlier in Vietnamese literature. In a culture heavily influenced by Confucianism, during a time when women were to abide by the three obediences and the four virtues, she had the audacity to write poetry that was outlandish and sexually clandestine. …
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Woman
That woman has been considered the secondary sex since the beginning of time is a mystery. Throughout the history of humanity, the construction of societies has been patriarchal, and current consensus sees matriarchal societies as exceedingly rare, if ever existing at all. In woman-led societies, the queen ruled together with men in her leadership ranks. …
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