Source: Washington Post
Interesting throughout:
For owners of Vietnamese restaurants in the area, Hispanic workers have become vital to the eateries’ survival. Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the 1970s after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 are retiring. It is hard to find a chef now — a Vietnamese chef,” said Thi Quach, owner of Viet Taste. “Most young Vietnamese people now, they tend to stay in school and they do professional jobs, so they don’t want to stay in the kitchen, and the older generation are getting old already.
Have noticed a similar trend in Asian eateries in the Phoenix area, e.g. at Shimogamo in Chandler with its outstanding Hispanic itamae.
Second in the Commissario Soneri series, now also a popular television drama in Italy. Nice mountain landscape descriptions of the Ligurian Apennines south of the upper Po Valley roughly between Parma and La Spezia on the coast.
Another Wes Anderson gem. TLMW says Bill Murray and I were separated at birth. Flattered.
Not abook about money in the strictest sense. John Lanchester’s latest novel,