(** Attn U.S. Readers: The Yellow Sea is currently playing at select theaters in NYC, NJ, Skokie (IL), Cupertino (CA) and Los Angeles) ******************************* Yellow Sea Cast & Crew Director – Na Hong-jin Story/Screenplay – Na Hong-jin Actors – Jung-woo Ha, Yun-seok Kim ******************************* Given our insatiable lust for Korean crime films, it was preordained […]
You can’t sing to the flower without including the bud and stem and the root, even the mud around it, too. – The mad woman Clare in The Wedding by Sallie Bingham, p.172, Source: Mending – New and Selected Stories (Sarabande Books, 2011)
There is no such thing as “Indian food.” It’s a fabrication of the West. Each state has its own regional cuisines: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bengal. And then even the states have subcategories — there’s coastal Maharashtrian, inland Maharashtrian, Muslim-influenced. Sadly, what most of the world knows today as Indian food is bastardized, trivialized — tandoori chicken, […]