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Two notable events from the weekend:
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moonwolf made some General Tso's chicken. From scratch, from a recipe found on 4chan. I chopped the fresh ginger and garlic for the sauce. I thought I had tasted some pretty good General Tso's before, but this was really, really good. I think fresh ginger in particular is something no Chinese food should be without; it makes an amazing difference.
2) I finished Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Arabesk Trilogy, consisting of Pashazade, Effendi and Felaheen. It's an alternate history semi-cyberunk noir detective kind of trilogy. Mr. Grimwood apparently hangs out in a group with China Miéville, and there are some similarities. The prose paints places that do not exist rather well, and the language is colorful and vocabulary-building. The aspects of North-African and Ottoman culture seem both well researched and intentionally fake at the same time. Regardless, unlike Miéville, I rather enjoy Grimwood's books, and can recommend these ones as well.
1)
moonwolf made some General Tso's chicken. From scratch, from a recipe found on 4chan. I chopped the fresh ginger and garlic for the sauce. I thought I had tasted some pretty good General Tso's before, but this was really, really good. I think fresh ginger in particular is something no Chinese food should be without; it makes an amazing difference.2) I finished Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Arabesk Trilogy, consisting of Pashazade, Effendi and Felaheen. It's an alternate history semi-cyberunk noir detective kind of trilogy. Mr. Grimwood apparently hangs out in a group with China Miéville, and there are some similarities. The prose paints places that do not exist rather well, and the language is colorful and vocabulary-building. The aspects of North-African and Ottoman culture seem both well researched and intentionally fake at the same time. Regardless, unlike Miéville, I rather enjoy Grimwood's books, and can recommend these ones as well.
