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Tasty China reveals a different side of one of the world’s great cuisines by Richard Foss I have been fascinated with Chinese food since childhood, because it was the only exotic dining experience in the South Bay. On special occasions we’d visit Tai Song, a cavernous restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in Manhattan Beach that […]
by Richard Foss Depending on which set of statistics you look at, Chinese food is either the most popular restaurant cuisine in the U.S. or in second place. That includes high style fusion places, down home eateries, and take-out counters all lumped into the one category, but one statistic proves the appeal. There are more […]
Don’t get your hopes up “In the Presence of Schopenhauer,” by Michel Houellebecq (Polity Press) Every volume by Arthur Schopenhauer, and in particular “The World as Will and Representation,” should carry a warning label: Not to be read before the age of 30, especially by those maintaining a “Romantic” outlook on life. Why? because the […]