Jan 07 2008
Some call it Chinese grapefruit. Not far from the truth, especially now they have even matched pinky color of grapefruit. English translates gan 甘 as sweet which in most cases are correct, but it omits some elements, not just sweet, the gan as dry and gan as sugary. Gan is the most appropriated word to describe [...]
Jan 07 2008
Speculation over Bloomberg candidacy grows. He’s compact, successful and no nonsense. Not sure the city got that. The last few times I dealt with city, over parking tickets, etc. were all sloppy. A meter-maid issued me a parking ticket this past summer for the wrong car: as usual, I glued the wrong registration sticker. I thought that’s [...]
Jan 07 2008
I just found (should say decided to try .. since I’ve seen this for a while .. narrow mind kept me from tasting it sooner, hehehe ..) a new type of pear, the green one on the left from Xinjiang. The light yellow on the right has been there, if not for centuries, at least more [...]