“Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?”
(via The Wilson Quarterly)
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McCulture, or: The Fate of Literary Translation in America
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Travel Photo of the Day: Hoi An, Viet Nam
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Cao Lau, the celebrated Vietnamese noodle dish (usually served with pork and fried rice paper bits), according to local legend can only be made authentically in the ancient port town of Hoi An with water drawn from wells such as the one pictured here dug hundreds of years ago by the Cham people (December, 2006)
The 'Not-So-Rough' Guide 