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Mango Sticky Rice
It’s mango sticky rice season. I really like Thai food, but I love mango sticky rice. At the first hint of spring, I begin craving this sticky rice cake covered in an almost-buttery coconut milk, whose flavor contrasts perfectly with the sharpness of the fresh – and not mushy – mango. In early spring I find myself calling restaurants, multiple times, to find out if mango sticky rice is on the menu. Unfortunately, my cravings don’t always align exactly with an actual mango season and I frequently hang up the phone, disappointed, and having to wait. Not tonight. I walked into Mama Thai and saw, tacked to the wall, the…
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And so it begins
I don’t video well. Hence, a blog. I like to write but, like everyone else in the world, I find that time is a scarce resource and unless it is required, I don’t make the time to write. I spend time with family and friends, I travel, I eat, I work, but I don’t write. An off-handed comment I made about an earlier suggestion that I start a blog led to my being challenged to follow through on it. After thinking about it for several weeks, but not really doing anything to start it, my students (who were looking for ways to avoid researching for their final project) suggested that…