Ramen Quotes

One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever." - Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

I was raised on ramen and hard work!

Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.

Easy as pie. Actually, come to think of it, not easy as pie. Easy as something else. Like ramen noodles. Or microwave popcorn. Because, what exactly about pie is easy?

Aku tidak suka makan ramen kalau dia sudah dingin. Jadi tidak perlu kujawab ya Bee. Biarkan kamu saja yang menilai, apakah aku sungguh-sungguh mencintaimu atau tidak. "Rendy ~ Her Footprints on His Heart

Le poisson rouge ne peut ramener la complexité des océans à la quiétude de son bocal. (p.185)

Then she went back to the kitchen, where she found her ramen had gotten cold. Great.

Top Ramen, my favorite comfort food—because it’s comforting to know that in the event of nuclear fallout, my food has enough MSG and preservatives to out-survive all of mankind.

And I think of how time passes so differently for different people. Mabel and Jacob, their months in Los Angeles, months full of doing and seeing and going. Road trips, the ocean. So much living crammed into every day. And then me in my room. Watering my plant. Making ramen. Cleaning my yellow bowls night after night after night. “It’s

Less than a year ago, my life had been so simple. I had a nice little freelance design business going. I was marrying a man I thought I loved. And then --poof. Ghosts in my kitchen and ramen for breakfast.

Et ça, je n'y étais pas préparé, à ramener à force d'exactitude et de concentration, de l'arrière-plan d'instants révolus, une présence suffisamment solide pour hanter la viduité de ce plateau extrudé d'un Golgoth.

Fermi proslul svou schopností jednoduchým a rychlým způsobem odhadnout fyzikální veličiny. Při explozi první jaderné bomby v Alamogordu v poušti v Novém Mexiku 15. července 1945 například upustil kus papíru z výšky ramen a sledoval, jak se vlivem nárazové vlny z bomby odklonil. Tím, že věděl, že epicentrum je devět mil daleko, odhadl energii výbuchu – jednalo se o ekvivalent více než 10 000 tun TNT.

High school and college students like to torture their bodies. They pull countless all-nighters, continually skip breakfast, eat nothing but ramen noodles for dinner, find creative new ways to guzzle alcohol, transform into couch potatoes, and gain 15 pounds at the freshman dinner buffet. At least, that's the stereotype.

Live cleanly, rightly, beautifully. Take walks and read books, laugh and save money...

He could live without furniture and on a ramen-only diet, but he needed more bandwidth. 

She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them.

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

The contemporary church can, at times, market a kind of "ramen noodle" spirituality. Faith becomes a consumer product - it asks little of us, affirms our values, and promises to meet our needs, but in the end it's just a quick fix that leaves us glutted and malnourished.

You know, you the worst kind, you want to marry the artist and live like squalor, but you wait, in five years you be like, Baby Jake why we eat ramen noodles every night? You a hustler, don't blind me, I see.

Only weird people can create something new and interesting.

Desire always breeds more desire. Eventually, it becomes difficult to control.

He’s still a baby.” “No, he’s not! I’ve been taking care of Jiyoung’s bags, school supplies, and homework since I was ten. When we were his age, we mopped the floor, hung laundry, and made ramen and fried eggs for ourselves.” “He’s the youngest.” “You mean he’s the son!

Soms, als ze in het bleke schemerdonker over straat slenterde met de bitterzoete geur van stof en bloemen - lenteavonden met verlichte ramen en de langgerekte kreten voor het avondeten, wanneer de huiszwaluwen zich buitelend boven de stad verzamelden en samen naar hun nesten vlogen en de lucht leeg en wijd achterlieten - in die lange lenteschemer welde er een soort weemoed in haar op en verstarde haar hart, stokte bijna.

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Ego sum in flammis, ramen non adolebit. (frei übersetzt: Ich stehe in Flammen, aber ich verbrenne nicht)

My cart is half full of the ramen I will have tonight and then tomorrow.

Who the hell was this guy, barging in to deny me my ramen?

Tout ce qui plaît a une raison de plaire, et mépriser les attroupements de ceux qui s'égarent n'est pas le moyen de les ramener où ils devraient être.

My place smells like whatever loneliness smells like. Ramen and broken dreams or something.

Aucun de nous n'a envie de revivre ce passé. Maxim moins que tout autre. Et c'est à vous, comprenez-le, de nous en détacher. Il ne faut pas nous y ramener.

If circumstances dictate that your disposable income has to come from eating ramen alongside your vintage Cantillon gueuze, so be it.

I mean, stars and stones. Two million bucks would buy you a lot of ramen.

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Sure.” He lowered himself onto a stool and sat ramrod-straight, rubbing his hands on his jeans. “Do you need any help?” “Making ramen? Nope.” She popped the p.

No thanks! I’ll take my beef ramen along with my independence, thank you very much.

Nobody wants xenocide, but if it happens, I want to make sure it’s the other guys that disappear. When it comes to war, human is human and alien is alien. All that ramen business goes up in smoke when we’re talking about survival.

That's the detail of the dead woman I always remember: her bare left foot, along with packets of Top Ramen and a torn box of cat food strewn about as plastic bags danced in the wind of passing cars. I always think how, when she left the house that day, the last thing on that woman's mind must have been the possibility of dying on the pavement with dried noodles crowning her head. Maybe if she had paid more attention to detail, like the oncoming car, she would have made it home to feed her cat.

I would love, though, to be able to forage---to pick the rosemary that grows near my mum's house, the dandelion flowers and their leaves that I've seen on the little patch of grass outside the studios---and to be able to eat the foods the artists in this building are growing, the mushrooms, tomatoes, herbs... I'd love, also, to be able to just go to a normal shop and buy my food, to peel back an aluminum and plastic lid on a polystyrene box and tuck into my dinner in the way a human can with instant ramen.

J'écris à la lueur de deux Vérités éternelles : la Religion, la Monarchie, deux nécessités que les événements contemporains proclament, et vers lesquelles tout écrivain de bon sens doit essayer de ramener notre pays. Sans être l'ennemi de l'Election, principe excellent

The contemporary church can, at times, market a kind of “ramen noodle” spirituality. Faith becomes a consumer product—it asks little of us, affirms our values, and promises to meet our needs, but in the end it’s just a quick fix that leaves us glutted and malnourished.

Když jsem jedl, slečna Sook mi položila ruku kolem ramen. „Jenom tohle bych ti chtěla říct, Bráško. Ze dvou špatností nikdy nevzešlo nic dobrého. Od něj bylo zlé, že vzal tu brož. Ale my nevíme, proč ji vzal. Možná si ji ani nechtěl nechat. Ať už měl jakýkoliv důvod, určitě to neměl naplánované. Proto to, co jsi udělal ty, bylo mnohem horší: ty jsi ho chtěl pokořit. Ty sis to naplánoval. Teď mě poslouchej, Bráško: je jen jeden neospravedlnitelný hřích – úmyslná krutost. Všechno ostatní může být odpuštěno. Tohle nikdy. Rozumíš mi, Bráško?

In Taipei we had oyster omelets and stinky tofu at Shilin Night Market and discovered what is arguably the world's greatest noodle soup, Taiwanese beef noodle, chewy flour noodles served with hefty chunks of stewed shank and a meaty broth so rich it's practically a gravy. In Beijing we trekked a mile in six inches of snow to eat spicy hot pot, dipping thin slivers of lamb, porous wheels of crunchy lotus root, and earthy stems of watercress into bubbling, nuclear broth packed with chiles and Sichuan peppercorns. In Shanghai we devoured towers of bamboo steamers full of soup dumplings, addicted to the taste of the savory broth gushing forth from soft, gelatinous skins. In Japan we slurped decadent tonkotsu ramen, bit cautiously into steaming takoyaki topped with dancing bonito flakes and got hammered on whisky highballs.

Les grands moments de l'existence, les naissances, la maladie, la mort ont le don de vous ramener à l'extrême banalité et de vous faire monter aux lèvres ces expressions toute faites, nées de la sagesse populaire, et qui traduisent mieux qu'un langage savant les réactions viscérales (47).

This isn’t hyperbole, not exactly. Kurume treats tonkotsu like a French country baker treats a sourdough starter—feeding it, regenerating, keeping some small fraction of the original soup alive in perpetuity. Old bones out, new bones in, but the base never changes. The mother of all ramen.

With chopsticks, I cut through the dark-skinned egg, releasing molten yoke into waiting broth. Face bathed in the warming steam, I tasted. Sheltered from the rain Soothing train, ramen-numbed brain I reap contentment With the Zen meal consumed and consumed by the Zen meal, I exited back into the chaotic Tokyo night.

When you put a hot bowl of ramen in front of most Americans—white or otherwise—they will wait for it to cool down. It defeats the purpose, but they do not know this. It’s the equivalent of ordering a burger, and then when it comes, you don’t touch it! You wait for it to cool down, the lettuce to wilt, the cheese to congeal.

It is said that real human nature reveals itself under extreme conditions. As I starved in prison, I realizes that eating was one of the highest forms of human activity.

But beyond the extravagance of Rome's wealthiest citizens and flamboyant gourmands, a more restrained cuisine emerged for the masses: breads baked with emmer wheat; polenta made from ground barley; cheese, fresh and aged, made from the milk of cows and sheep; pork sausages and cured meats; vegetables grown in the fertile soil along the Tiber. In these staples, more than the spice-rubbed game and wine-soaked feasts of Apicius and his ilk, we see the earliest signs of Italian cuisine taking shape. The pillars of Italian cuisine, like the pillars of the Pantheon, are indeed old and sturdy. The arrival of pasta to Italy is a subject of deep, rancorous debate, but despite the legend that Marco Polo returned from his trip to Asia with ramen noodles in his satchel, historians believe that pasta has been eaten on the Italian peninsula since at least the Etruscan time. Pizza as we know it didn't hit the streets of Naples until the seventeenth century, when Old World tomato and, eventually, cheese, but the foundations were forged in the fires of Pompeii, where archaeologists have discovered 2,000-year-old ovens of the same size and shape as the modern wood-burning oven. Sheep's- and cow's-milk cheeses sold in the daily markets of ancient Rome were crude precursors of pecorino and Parmesan, cheeses that literally and figuratively hold vast swaths of Italian cuisine together. Olives and wine were fundamental for rich and poor alike.

By my fifth sip, I am sooooo glad I splurged thirty-five delicious Euros. That’s right math whizzes, the Red Beach set me back over fifty American dollars. Who cares if I have to eat Top Ramen when I get home? I’ll gladly pilfer condiment packages from fast food restaurants to survive if it means I get to sit in ZPlage and sip Red Beaches with anorexic Russian models and their playboy sugar daddies.

In Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyōza, Yamaoka and the gang are on an assignment to help a lonely gyōza chef find a new recipe and true love. While investigating, they have lunch at a dumpling restaurant that boasts "100 types of gyōza" on the sign. (Incidentally, a cute thing about Japanese restaurant chains is that they often put the word "chain" in the name, like, "Gyōza Chain Hanasaki.") They eat dumplings with fillings like garlic-miso, flaked salmon, and Chinese roast pork.

Over the years, I've made good money in real estate, and for some reason, this hurts Stephen's feelings. He's not a churchman, but he's extremely big on piety and sacrifice and letting you know what fine values he's got. As far as I can tell, these values consist of little more than eating ramen noodles by the case, getting laid once every fifteen years or so, and arching his back at the sight of people like me -- that is, people who have amounted to something and don't smell heavily of thrift stores.

Memories fill my mind, as though they are my own, of not just events from Gideon's life, but of various flavors and textures: breast milk running easily down into my stomach, chicken cooked with butter and parsley, split peas and runner beans and butter beans, and oranges and peaches, strawberries freshly picked from the plant; hot, strong coffees each morning; pasta and walnuts and bread and brie; then something sweet: a pan cotta, with rose and saffron, and a white wine: tannin, soil, stone fruits, white blossom; and---oh my god---ramen, soba, udon, topped with nori and sesame seeds; miso with tofu and spring onions, fugu and tuna sashimi dipped in soy sauce, onigiri with a soured plum stuffed in the middle; and then something I don't know, something unfamiliar but at the same time deeply familiar, something I didn't realize I craved: crispy ground lamb, thick, broken noodles, chili oil, fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk, tamarind... and then a bright green dessert---the sweet, floral flavor of pandan fills my mouth.

While you can sell ramen relatively expensively in Japan, you can’t do it in America. People will unblinkingly pay $ 20 a plate for spaghetti pomodoro—which is just canned tomatoes and boxed pasta—but they will bitch to the high heavens about forking over $ 20 for a bowl of soup that requires three or four or five different cooked and composed components to put together. Plus, you will rake yourself over the coals looking for ingredients that even approximate what you can buy down the alley from your shop in Tokyo.

Salt can take a while to dissolve in foods that are low in water, so add it to bread dough early. Leave it out of Italian pasta dough altogether, allowing the salted water to do the work of seasoning as it cooks. Add it early to ramen and udon doughs to strengthen its gluten, as this will result in the desired chewiness. Add salt later to batters and doughs for cakes, pancakes, and delicate pastries to keep them tender, but make sure to whisk these mixes thoroughly so that the salt is evenly distributed before cooking.

L'amour d'une courtisane cache, entre mille attraits, un hameçon lancéolé, qui pique surtout l'âme des artistes. Ces passions, inexplicables pour la foule, sont parfaitement expliquées par cette soif du beau idéal qui distingue les êtres créateurs. N'est-ce pas ressembler un peu aux anges chargés de ramener les coupables à des sentiments meilleurs ? N'est-ce pas créer que de purifier un pareil être ? Quel allèchement que de mettre d'accord 'la beauté morale et la beauté physique ! Quelle jouissance d'orgueil si l'on réussit !

forward to it, and Cooper, coatless and chilly in the desert evening, was thinking that the radio man was an asshole. He’d chased Vasquez for nine days now. Someone had warned the programmer just before Cooper got to the Boston walk-up, a brick rectangle where the only light had been a window onto an airshaft and the glowing red eyes of power indicators on computers and routers and surge protectors. The desk chair had been against the far wall as if someone had leaped out of it, and steam still rose from an abandoned bowl of ramen. Vasquez had run, and

« Tu crois qu’il faut le kidnapper ? - Franchement, Widget... - Non, sincèrement. On peut s’introduire chez lui en douce, le frapper avec quelque chose de lourd et le ramener ici aussi discrètement que possible. On le mettra debout et les gens croiront que c’est un ivrogne du coin. Le temps qu’il reprenne conscience, il sera déjà dans le train, et là, il n’aura plus vraiment le choix. Rapide et indolore. Enfin, pour nous. À part le fait d’avoir à le traîner. - Je ne pense pas que ce soit la meilleure idée, Widget. - Oh, allez, ce sera drôle, proteste Widget. »

What to eat? You've crossed a dozen time zones to get here and you want to make every meal count. Do you start at an izakaya, a Japanese pub, and eat raw fish and grilled chicken parts and fried tofu, all washed down with a river of cold sake? Do you seek out the familiar nourishment of noodles- ramen, udon, soba- and let the warmth and beauty of this cuisine slip gloriously past your lips? Or maybe you wade into the vast unknown, throw yourself entirely into the world of unfamiliar flavors: a bowl of salt-roasted eel, a mound of sticky fermented soybeans, a nine-course kaiseki feast.

Habits shape our desires. I desired ramen noodles more than good, nourishing food because, over time, I had taught myself to crave certain things and not others. In the same way I am either formed by the practices of the church into a worshiper who can receive all of life as a gift, or I am formed, inevitably, as a mere consumer, even a consumer of spirituality. The contemporary church can, at times, market a kind of “ramen noodle” spirituality. Faith becomes a consumer product—it asks little of us, affirms our values, and promises to meet our needs, but in the end it’s just a quick fix that leaves us glutted and malnourished.

Il y a dans toute poésie une contradiction essentielle. La poésie, c'est de la multiplicité broyée et qui rend des flammes. Et la poésie, qui ramène l'ordre, ressuscite d'abord le désordre, le désordre aux aspects enflammés; elle fait s'entre-choquer des aspects qu'elle ramène a un point unique : feu, geste, sang, cri. Ramener la poésie et l'ordre dans un monde dont l'existence même est un défi a l'ordre, c'est ramener la guerre et la permanence de la guerre; c'est amener un état de cruauté appliqué, c'est susciter une anarchie sans nom, l'anarchie des choses et des aspects qui se réveillent avant de sombrer et de se fondre a nouveau dans l'unité. Mais celui qui réveille cette anarchie dangereuse en est toujours la première victime

Now, back to Sapporo-ya. The place is deep enough below street level that the windows let in no natural light; harsh fluorescent lamps made everyone look ill. The walls are greenish-yellow. If you are directing a modern adaptation of The Divine Comedy, shoot the purgatory scenes here. The waitress set down my hiyashi chūka goma dare (sesame sauce). It was in every way the opposite of its surroundings: colorful, artfully presented, sweated over. The tangle of yellow noodles was served in a shallow blue-and-white bowl and topped with daikon, pickled ginger, roast pork, bamboo shoots, tomato, shredded nori, cucumber, bean sprouts, half a hard-boiled egg, and Japanese mustard. It was almost too pretty to ruin by tossing it together with chopsticks.

Seth and his co-workers were born imperialists, and so would pillage the city for tiny, cash-only ramen places or Thai restaurants that had a secret, ultra-authentic room behind the kitchen where the staff also ate and where they would insist on eating, too. They were the best and the only and the highest and the chef was trained in Beirut as a prisoner of war and the waitstaff had to get scuba training so that they could understand what it meant to touch pleasure and the restaurant itself used to be a church or a secret meeting place for the Illuminati or a Tibetan monastery that only the hottest, most favored Tibetans were invited to. It was not just about owning the city. It was about owning everything beneath and above and behind the city, too.

It was one thing to know with his mind that Human would not really die. It was another thing to believe it. Ender did not take the knives at first. Instead he reached past the blades and took Human by the wrists. “To you it doesn’t feel like death. But to me—I only saw you for the first time yesterday, and tonight I know you are my brother as surely as if Rooter were my father, too. And yet when the sun rises in the morning, I’ll never be able to talk to you again. It feels like death to me, Human, how ever it feels to you.” “Come and sit in my shade,” said Human, “and see the sunlight through my leaves, and rest your back against my trunk. And do this, also. Add another story to the Hive Queen and the Hegemon. Call it the Life of Human. Tell all the humans how I was conceived on the bark of my father’s tree, and born in darkness, eating my mother’s flesh. Tell them how I left the life of darkness behind and came into the half-light of my second life, to learn language from the wives and then come forth to learn all the miracles that Libo and Miro and Ouanda came to teach. Tell them how on the last day of my second life, my true brother came from above the sky, and together we made this covenant so that humans and piggies would be one tribe, not a human tribe or a piggy tribe, but a tribe of ramen. And then my friend gave me passage to the third life, to the full light, so that I could rise into the sky and give life to ten thousand children before I die.” “I’ll tell your story,” said Ender. “Then I will truly live forever.

To be a ramen writer of Kamimura's stature, you need to live in a ramen town, and there is unquestionably no town in Japan more dedicated to ramen than Fukuoka. This city of 1.5 million along the northern coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands, is home to two thousand ramen shops, representing Japan's densest concentration of noodle-soup emporiums. While bowls of ramen are like snowflakes in Japan, Fukuoka is known as the cradle of tonkotsu, a pork-bone broth made milky white by the deposits of fat and collagen extracted during days of aggressive boiling. It is not simply a specialty of the city, it is the city, a distillation of all its qualities and calluses. Indeed, tell any Japanese that you've been to Fukuoka and invariably the first question will be: "How was the tonkotsu?

In summer, most ramen restaurants in Tokyo serve hiyashi chūka, a cold ramen noodle salad topped with strips of ham, cucumber, and omelet; a tart sesame- or soy-based sauce; and sometimes other vegetables, like a tomato wedge or sheets of wakame seaweed. The vegetables are arranged in piles of parallel shreds radiating from the center to the edge of the plate like bicycle spokes, and you toss everything together before eating. It's bracing, ice-cold, addictive- summer food from the days before air conditioning. In Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyōza, a young lifestyle reporter wants to write an article about hiyashi chūka. "I'm not interested in something like hiyashi chūka," says my alter ego Yamaoka. It's a fake Chinese dish made with cheap industrial ingredients, he explains. Later, however, Yamaoka relents. "Cold noodles, cold soup, and cold toppings," he muses. "The idea of trying to make a good dish out of them is a valid one." Good point, jerk. He mills organic wheat into flour and hires a Chinese chef to make the noodles. He buys a farmyard chicken from an old woman to make the stock and seasons it with the finest Japanese vinegar, soy sauce, and sake. Yamaoka's mean old dad Kaibara Yūzan inevitably gets involved and makes an even better hiyashi chūka by substituting the finest Chinese vinegar, soy sauce, and rice wine. When I first read this, I enjoyed trying to follow the heated argument over this dish I'd never even heard of. Yamaoka and Kaibara are in total agreement that hiyashi chūka needs to be made with quality ingredients, but they disagree about what kind of dish it is: Chinese, Japanese, or somewhere in between? Unlike American food, Japanese cuisine has boundary issues.

Irie serves me three ramens, including a bowl made with a rich dashi and head-on shrimp and another studded with spicy ground pork and wilted spinach and lashed with chili oil. Both are exceptionally delicious, sophisticated creations, but it's his interpretation of tonkotsu that leaves me muttering softly to myself. The noodles are firm and chewy, the roast pork is striped with soft deposits of warm fat, and the toppings- white curls of shredded spring onion, chewy strips of bamboo, a perfect square of toasted seaweed- are skillfully applied. Here it is the combination of tare, the culmination of years of careful tinkering, and broth, made from whole pig heads and knots of ginger, that defies the laws of tonkotsu: a soup with the savory, meaty intensity of a broth made from a thousand pigs that's light enough to leave you wanting more. And more. And more.

Een maand na de dood van mijn vader hield mijn moeder grote schoonmaak. Zijn geur moest worden weggeschrobd, zijn geest verjaagd. Ze zeulde de matras van zijn ziekbed naar buiten en gaf hem er stevig van langs met de mattenklopper. Scheerkwast, nagelborstel, tandenborstel, klerenborstel - de brand erin, zuiveren en de rest in een diepe kuil begraven - geen haar of schilfer mocht er van hem achterblijven. Na een dag luchten, waarbij de ramen in hun haakjes huilden, stak ze een kaars aan en liepen we drie keer met een bibbervlam om het huis, daarmee sneden we de negatieve krachten die ons omsingelden voorgoed af. Voortaan zou zijn woede de deur van ons huis niet meer kunnen vinden en zijn geschreeuw ons niet meer uit de slaap houden. Zo bande ze mijn driftige vader uit - met dweil, luiwagen, mattenklopper en lucifers. En door de tafel zo tegen de muur te schuiven dat alleen zij nog aan het hoofd kon zitten.

Though my mother and I hadn't parted on good terms, once a month, huge boxes would arrive, reminders I was never far from her mind. Sweet honey-puffed rice, twenty-four packs of individually wrapped seasoned seaweed, microwavable rice, shrimp crackers, boxes of Pepero, and cups of Shin ramen I would subsist on for weeks on end in an effort to avoid the dining hall. She sent clothing steamers, lint rollers, BB creams, packages of socks. A new "this is nice brand" skirt she'd found on sale at T.J. Maxx. The cowboy boots arrived in one of these packages after my parents had vacationed in Mexico. When I slipped them on I discovered they'd already been broken in. My mother had worn them around the house for a week, smoothing the hard edges in two pairs of socks for an hour every day, molding the flat sole with the bottom of her feet, wearing in the stiffness, breaking the tough leather to spare me all discomfort.

The filth of these all-male rooms was horrifying. Moldy mandarin orange skins clung to the bottoms of wastebaskets. Empty cans used for ashtrays held mounds of cigarette butts, and when these started to smolder they’d be doused with coffee or beer and left to give off a sour stink. Blackish grime and bits of indefinable matter clung to all the bowls and dishes on the shelves, and the floors were littered with ramen wrappers and empty beer cans and lids from one thing or another. It never occurred to anyone to sweep up and throw these things in a wastebasket. Any wind that blew through would raise clouds of dust. Each room had its own horrendous smell, but the components of that smell were the same: sweat and body odor and garbage. Dirty clothes would pile up under the beds, and without anyone bothering to air the mattresses on a regular basis, these sweat-impregnated pads would give off odors beyond redemption. In retrospect, it seems amazing that these shit piles gave rise to no killer epidemics.

Our neighborhood ramen place was called Aoba. That's a joke. There were actually more than fifty ramen places with in walking distance of our apartment. But this one was our favorite. Aoba makes a wonderful and unusual ramen with a mixture of pork and fish broth. The noodles are firm and chewy, and the pork tender and almost smoky, like ham. I also liked how they gave us a small bowl for sharing with Iris without our even asking. What I really appreciated about this place, however, were two aspects of ramen that I haven't mentioned yet: the eggs and the dipping noodles. After these two, I will stop, but there's so much more to ramen. Would someone please write an English-language book about ramen? Real ramen, not how to cook with Top Ramen noodles? Thanks. (I did find a Japanese-language book called State-of-the-Art Technology of Pork Bone Ramen on Amazon. Wish-listed!) One of the most popular ramen toppings is a soft-boiled egg. Long before sous vide cookery, ramen cooks were slow-cooking eggs to a precise doneness. Eggs for ramen (ajitsuke tamago) are generally marinated in a soy sauce mixture after cooking so the whites turn a little brown and the eggs turn a little sweet and salty. I like it best when an egg is plunked whole into the broth so I can bisect it with my chopsticks and reveal the intensely orange, barely runny yolk. A cool egg moistened with rich broth is alchemy. Forget the noodles; I want a ramen egg with a little broth for breakfast. Finding hot and cold in the same mouthful is another hallmark of Japanese summer food, and many ramen restaurants, including Aoba, feature it in the form of tsukemen, dipping noodles. Tsukemen is deconstructed ramen, a bowl of cold cooked noodles and a smaller bowl of hot, ultra-rich broth and toppings. The goal is to lift a tangle of noodles with your chopsticks and dip them in the bowl of broth on the way to your mouth. This is a crazy way to eat noodles and, unless you've been inculcated with the principles of noodle-slurping physics from birth, a great way to ruin your clothes.

And her. What would she do without him? She’s not special, not like BB and Ghostly, who awe her with their intelligence and the things they’re capable of, all their humbling potential. All she does is write - a lot - because it’s fun. She’s under no illusions, she’s popular through quantity not quality, she’s not bad but she is not Blackbindings and she never will be. She writes because it’s fun. And she thinks about him, and what he does. She works three jobs she hates, just to keep the bills paid. She wanted to get into journalism but she can’t afford the internships. She already sees what her life will be like, she sees the path ahead, she knows there’s no way off; she’ll never not be working three dead end jobs she hates, she’ll marry her boyfriend and unless there’s an accident they’ll decide almost too late that fuck it they’d better have those kids now or never, because they never will be able to afford them; she’ll never do anything amazing, never be anything amazing, just a person in a world full of people, getting by. But there’s him. And every time she faces life and thinks she can’t bear it, there’s him. If he can be so brave, can’t she manage the littlest bravery? Because - because her little pointless life that will never mean anything, that will have vanished beyond notice within hardly more than a hundred years if she has those kids to remember her, her dragging, struggling life of bills and broken pipes and fuck it it’s another ramen week unless they can live without cell phones - If she was in trouble, he’d still rescue her, wouldn’t he? Her life wouldn’t mean anything less to him. He rescues people. She’s still a person, as much as anyone else. She’s not important and she’s not special. But she’s a person. And she wipes her nose on the back of her wrist because she tossed the tissues and that’s what he gave her, and maybe it’s the smallest way to save someone’s life, to let them know they still matter whoever they are, but fuck like it doesn’t mean anything to her. It does. She owes him this, and everything …

It can be beneficial to reflect on what you used to accept as normal. Consider your first paycheck—how big it seemed then. Or your first apartment, with its own bedroom and bathroom and the ramen you gladly scarfed down in the kitchen. Today, as you’ve become more successful, these conditions would hardly feel sufficient. In fact, you probably want even more than what you have right now. Yet just a few years ago those paltry conditions were not only enough, they felt great! When we become successful, we forget how strong we used to be. We are so used to what we have, we half believe we’d die without it. Of course, this is just the comfort talking. In the days of the world wars, our parents and grandparents made do with rationed gas, butter, and electricity. They were fine, just as you have been fine when you had less. Remember today that you’d be OK if things suddenly went wrong. Your actual needs are small. There is very little that could happen that would truly threaten your survival. Think about that—and adjust your worries and fears accordingly.

I first came to Hokkaido for two reasons: miso ramen and uni, the island's most famous foods and two items on my short list for Last Supper constituents. The only thing they share in common, besides a home, is the intense fits of joy they deliver: the former made from an unholy mix of pork-bone broth, thick miso paste, and wok-crisped pork belly (with the optional addition of a slab of melting Hokkaido butter), the latter arguably the sexiest food on earth, yolk-orange tongues of raw sea urchin roe with a habit-forming blend of fat and umami, sweetness and brine. Fall for uni at your own peril; like heroin and high-stakes poker, it's an expensive addiction that's tough to kick. But my dead-simple plan- to binge on both and catch the first flight back to Tokyo- has been upended by a steam locomotive and Whole Foods foliage, and suddenly Hokkaido seems much bigger than an urchin and a bowl of soup. No one told me about the rolling farmlands, the Fuji-like volcanoes, the stunning national parks, one stacked on top of the other. Nobody said there would be wine. And cheese. And bread.

Esther n'était certainement pas bien éduquée au sens habituel du terme, jamais l'idée ne lui serait venue de vider un cendrier ou de débarrasser le relief de ses repas, et c'est sans la moindre gêne qu'elle laissait la lumière allumée derrière elle dans les pièces qu'elle venait de quitter (il m'est arrivé, suivant pas à pas son parcours dans ma résidence de San Jose, d'avoir à actionner dix-sept commutateurs); il n'était pas davantage question de lui demander de penser à faire un achat, de ramener d'un magasin où elle se rendait une course non destinée à son propre usage, ou plus généralement de rendre un service quelconque. Comme toutes les très jolies jeunes filles elle n'était au fond bonne qu'à baiser, et il aurait été stupide de l'employer à autre chose, de la voir autrement que comme un animal de luxe, en tout choyé et gåté, protégé de tout souci comme de toute tâche ennuyeuse ou pénible afin de mieux pouvoir se consacrer à son service exclusivement sexuel. Elle n'en était pas moins très loin d'être ce monstre d'arrogance, d'égoïsme absolu et froid, au, pour parler en termes plus baudelairiens, cette infernale petite salope que sont la plupart des très jolies jeunes filles; il y avait en elle la conscience de la maladie, de la faiblesse et de la mort. Quoique belle, très belle, infiniment érotique et désirable, Esther n'en était pas moins sensible aux infirmités animales, parce qu'elle les connaissait ; c'est ce soir-là que j'en pris conscience, et que je me mis véritablement à l'aimer. Le désir physique, si violent soit-il, n'avait jamais suffi chez moi à conduire à l'amour, il n'avait pu atteindre ce stade ultime que lorsqu'il s'accompagnait, par une juxtaposition étrange, d'une compassion pour l'être désiré ; tout être vivant, évidemment, mérite la compassion du simple fait qu'il est en vie et se trouve par là-même exposé à des souffrances sans nombre, mais face à un être jeune et en pleine santé c'est une considération qui paraît bien théorique. Par sa maladie de reins, par sa faiblesse physique insoupçonnable mais réelle, Esther pouvait susciter en moi une compassion non feinte, chaque fois que l'envie me prendrait d'éprouver ce sentiment à son égard. Étant elle-même compatissante, ayant même des aspirations occasionnelles à la bonté, elle pouvait également susciter en moi l'estime, ce qui parachevait l'édifice, car je n'étais pas un être de passion, pas essentiellement, et si je pouvais désirer quelqu'un de parfaitement méprisable, s'il m'était arrivé à plusieurs reprises de baiser des filles dans l'unique but d'assurer mon emprise sur elles et au fond de les dominer, si j'étais même allé jusqu'à utiliser ce peu louable sentiment dans des sketches, jusqu'à manifester une compréhension troublante pour ces violeurs qui sacrifient leur victime immédiatement après avoir disposé de son corps, j'avais par contre toujours eu besoin d'estimer pour aimer, jamais au fond je ne m'étais senti parfaitement à l'aise dans une relation sexuelle basée sur la pure attirance érotique et l'indifférence à l'autre, j'avais toujours eu besoin, pour me sentir sexuellement heureux, d'un minimum - à défaut d'amour - de sympathie, d'estime, de compréhension mutuelle; l'humanité non, je n'y avais pas renoncé. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)

What are we doing for supper tonight?” Avery asked, turning around in my desk chair and separating me from my memories. I grunted and tossed a package of ramen over my shoulder. She groaned. “Not again. Please. You need real food, Summer.” “Noodles are real food. They’re a relative to real pasta, which came from Italy and we know how kick-ass Italian food is. Boom. They’re gourmet badassness.” She tossed them to the corner. “They’re not, and I’m pulling my friendship card.” No way. She couldn’t. I rotated around in my chair to stare at her. “Not the friendship card.” “Totally the friendship card.” I pretended to gasp and shudder. Okay, I really did shudder. I’d never admit it, but the ramen wasn’t doing it for me either... "I was thinking we could go to a restaurant or something.” “What is this you speak of? A dwelling where they serve many varieties of solids?” Her lip twitched in a grin. “Yeah, that. You and me, we’re going to dress up, and we’re going to dine like queens.” “Can I wear a tiara?” “Without a doubt.” She winked at me as she got up and went to the door. “Thirty minutes, then we’re leaving.

this. I can’t smile or fake things I’m not feeling. Digging chopsticks out of the drawer, I stick them in the bowl and pick it up, carrying it upstairs. I reach the top and don’t pause as I turn away from their bedroom door and head left, toward my own room. Carrying the bowl to my desk, I pause, the smell of the ramen making my stomach roll. I set it down and move to the wall, sliding down until I’m sitting on the floor. The cool hardwood eases my nerves, and I’m tempted to lie down and rest my face on it. Is it weird I stayed in the house tonight when they died just down the hall this morning? The coroner estimated the time of death about two a.m. I didn’t wake up until six. My mind races, caught between wanting to let it go and wanting to process how everything happened. Mirai is here every day. If I didn’t find them, she would’ve. Why didn’t they wait until I’d gone back to school next week? Did they even remember I was in the house? I let my head fall back against the wall and lay my arms over my bent knees, closing my burning eyes. They didn’t leave me a note. They dressed up. They put the dog out. They scheduled Mirai to come late this morning, instead of early.

Other than chicken and rice, you'll find Tokyo restaurants specializing in fried pork cutlets, curry rice, ramen, udon, soba, gyōza, beef tongue, tempura, takoyaki, yakitori, Korean-style grilled beef, sushi, okonomiyaki, mixed rice dishes, fried chicken, and dozens of other dishes. Furthermore, even if you know something about Japanese food, it's common to come across a restaurant whose menu or plastic food display indicates that it specializes in a particular food you've never seen before and can't quite decipher. Out of this tradition of single-purpose restaurants, Japan has created homegrown fast-food chains. McDonald's and KFC exist in Tokyo but are outnumbered by Japanese chains like Yoshinoya (beef-and-rice bowl), CoCo Ichiban (curry rice), Hanamaru Udon, Gindaco (takoyaki), Lotteria (burgers), Tenya (tempura), Freshness Burger, Ringer Hut (Nagasaki-style noodles), and Mister Donut (pizza) (just kidding). Since the Japanese are generally slim and healthy and I don't know how to read a Japanese newspaper, it was unclear to me whether Japan's fast-food chains are blamed for every social ill, but it seems like it would be hard to pin a high suicide rate on Mister Donut.

David Chang, who had become the darling of the New York restaurant world, thanks to his Momofuku noodle and ssäm bars in the East Village, opened his third outpost, Momofuku Milk Bar, just around the corner from my apartment. While everyone in the city was clamoring for the restaurants' bowls of brisket ramen and platters of pig butt, his pastry chef, Christina Tosi, was cooking up "crack pie," an insane and outrageous addictive concoction made largely of white sugar, brown sugar, and powdered sugar, with egg yolks, heavy cream, and lots of butter, all baked in an oat cookie crust. People were going nuts for the stuff, and it was time for me to give this crack pie a shot. But as soon as I walked into the industrial-style bakery, I knew crack could have nothing on the cookies. Blueberry and cream. Double chocolate. Peanut butter. Corn. (Yes, a corn cookie, and it was delicious). There was a giant compost cookie, chock-full of pretzels, chips, coffee grounds, butterscotch, oats, and chocolate chips. But the real knockout was the cornflake, marshmallow, and chocolate chip cookie. It was sticky, chewy, and crunchy at once, sweet and chocolaty, the ever-important bottom side rimmed in caramelized beauty. I love rice crisps in my chocolate, but who would have thought that cornflakes in my cookies could also cause such rapture?

The only garnish for the noodles was sesame and spring onions. The two perfect squares of butter on top were already beginning to lose their shape in the clear broth, their outlines blurring messily. Beneath them floated the crinkled noodles with their strong yellow hue. Dissolved in the soup, the butter formed golden circles on its surface. Rika deliberately passed the noodles through those circles on their way to her mouth. The taste of lye water was a little strong, but they weren't badly cooked, and retained their bite. She sipped the soup. Against the faint chicken base of the stock she could detect the flavor of bonito. The broth was hot but it slipped down easily, lubricating her painfully dry throat. Alone, the cheap butter had an overly milky tang, but in combination with the noodles and the soup, its flavor grew golden and staked its territory, with a kind of violence. A certain depth of flavor began to assert itself, and as the droplets plummeted to the centre of her body, its arc of influence expanded. The back of her nose grew hot, and she reached for the tissue box on the counter. Feeling the moisture flowing, she blew her nose loudly. A film of butter was forming across her insides. The hot broth and the hot noodles were more assertive, more forceful than Makoto's warmth and smell. As she raised them to her mouth alternately, Rika's body regained more and more of its heat and softness. She was already warmer than she had been back in the hotel room.

The hot case at a kombini features tonkatsu, fried chicken, menchikatsu (a breaded hamburger patty), Chinese pork buns, potato croquettes, and seafood items such as breaded squid legs or oysters. In a bit of international solidarity, you'll see corn dogs, often labeled "Amerikandoggu." One day for lunch I stopped at 7-Eleven and brought home a pouch of "Gold Label" beef curry, steamed rice, inarizushi (sushi rice in a pouch of sweetened fried tofu), cold noodle salad, and a banana. Putting together lunch for the whole family from an American 7-Eleven would be as appetizing as scavenging among seaside medical waste, but this fun to shop for and fun to eat. Instant ramen is as popular in Japan as it is in college dorms worldwide, and while the selection of flavors is wider than at an American grocery, it serves a predictable ecological niche as the food of last resort for those with no money or no time. (Frozen ramen, on the other hand, can be very good; if you have access to a Japanese supermarket, look for Myojo Chukazanmai brand.) That's how I saw it, at least, until stumbling on the ramen topping section in the 7-Eleven refrigerator case, where you can buy shrink-wrapped packets of popular fresh ramen toppings such as braised pork belly and fermented bamboo shoots. With a quick stop at a convenience store, you can turn instant ramen into a serious meal. The pork belly is rolled and tied, braised, chilled, and then sliced into thick circular slices like Italian pancetta. This is one of the best things you can do with pork, and I don't say that lightly.

In Tokyo, ramen is a playground for the culinary imagination. As long as the dish contains thin wheat noodles, it's ramen. In fact, there's a literal ramen playground called Tokyo Ramen Street in the basement of Tokyo Station, with eight top-rated ramen shops sharing one corridor. We stopped by one evening after a day of riding around on the Shinkansen. After drooling over the photos at establishments such as Junk Garage, which serves oily, brothless noodles hidden under a towering slag heap of toppings, we settled on Ramen Honda based on its short line and the fact that its ramen seemed to be topped with a massive pile of scallions. However, anything in Tokyo that appears to be topped with scallions is actually topped with something much better. You'll meet this delectable dopplegänger soon, and in mass quantities. The Internet is littered with dozens if not hundreds of exclamation point-bedecked ramen blogs (Rameniac, GO RAMEN!, Ramen Adventures, Ramenate!) in English, Japanese, and probably Serbian, Hindi, and Xhosa. In Tokyo, you'll find hot and cold ramen; Thai green curry ramen; diet ramen and ramen with pork broth so thick you could sculpt with it; Italian-inspired tomato ramen; and Hokkaido-style miso ramen. You'll find ramen chains and fiercely individual holes-in-the-wall. Right now, somewhere in the world, someone is having a meet-cute with her first bowl of ramen. As she fills up on pork and noodles and seaweed and bamboo shoots, she thinks, we were meant to be together, and she is embarrassed at her atavistic reaction to a simple bowl of soup.

Lobster tomalley fish innards! The richness of all the ingredients have melded into one powerful whole! What a robust, almost wild flavor! Next, let's try the broth together with the noodles... here I go! Ye gods! I have to hold myself together or I'll black out! As it is, that was nearly a knockout punch! Who knew umami flavor could be this powerfully violent! How about the toppings? I see three varieties of shredded cheese. Rouille... *Rouille is a type of aioli, usually consisting of olive oil, breadcrumbs and various spices like garlic and chili flakes. It, along with croutons and cheese, is a standard garnish to Soupe de Poisson.* And are those tempura flakes? Aha! He must have added those as a crouton analogue! And finally the rusk! It looks like it's been spread with Échiré butter and well toasted. Perhaps it was added as a palate cleanser for after that strong, rich broth. WHAT?! What an intense, aromatic flavor! But where is all of this coming from?! Hm? What are these pink flakes in the butter? Wait, now I see! Those shells he crushed! He had them dried to increase their umami flavor!" "It's about time you noticed. I added those powdered shells to everything in this dish, from the soup stock to the butter on the rusk." "See, the umami flavor in lobsters and shrimp comes from three elements: glycine, arginine and proline. Of all seafood, crustaceans carry the highest concentration of umami components, y'know. Since Ryo took that powdered lobster shell- chock full of those three umami components- and added it to every element of the dish... ... it's, like, only natural that it's flavor is going to have a strong umami punch.

The broth... it's made with a mix of soy milk and charred miso. But how could you get a flavor this robust with just those?" "I mixed in grated ebi taro root. It's a strongly flavored tuber that mashes easily into a smooth, thick paste. Adding that to the broth gave it a creamy texture and a richer flavor." "Weird. All of a sudden I'm starting to feel warm." "That's the chili oil and grated raw garlic and ginger taking effect. The soy milk took the edge off of the spicy bite... so now it just gently warms the body without burning the tongue." "The rest of the ingredients are also a parade of detailed work. Thin slices of lotus root and burdock deep-fried to a crispy golden brown. Chunky strips of carrot and turnip grilled over an open flame until lightly charred and then seasoned with just a little rock salt to bring out their natural sweetness. Like a French buffet, each side ingredient is cooked in exactly the best way to bring out its full flavor! But the keystone to it all... ... is the TEMPEH!" TEMPEH Originating in Indonesia, tempeh is made of soybeans fermented into a cake form. Soybeans are lightly cooked and then wrapped in either banana or hibiscus leaves. When stored, the naturally occurring bacteria in the leaves causes the soybeans to ferment into tempeh. Traditional food with a history over four hundred years long, tempeh is well-known and often used in Indonesian cuisine. "Mm! Wow! It's really light, yet really filling too! Like fried rice." "It has a texture a lot like that of a burger patty, so vegetarians and people on macrobiotic diets use it a lot as a meat substitute. I broiled these teriyaki style in a mix of soy sauce and sake.

Fukuoka, more than any other city in Japan, is responsible for ramen's rocket-ship trajectory, and the ensuing shift in Japan's cultural identity abroad. Between Hide-Chan, Ichiran, and Ippudo- three of the biggest ramen chains in the world- they've brought the soup to corners of the globe that still thought ramen meant a bag of dried noodles and a dehydrated spice packet. But while Ichiran and Ippudo are purveyors of classic tonkotsu, undoubtedly the defining ramen of the modern era, Hideto has a decidedly different belief about ramen and its mutability. "There are no boundaries for ramen, no rules," he says. "It's all freestyle." As we talk at his original Hide-Chan location in the Kego area of Fukuoka, a new bowl arrives on the table, a prototype for his borderless ramen philosophy. A coffee filter is filled with katsuobushi, smoked skipjack tuna flakes, and balanced over a bowl with a pair of chopsticks. Hideto pours chicken stock through the filter, which soaks up the katsuobushi and emerges into the bowl as clear as a consommé. He adds rice noodles and sawtooth coriander then slides it over to me. Compared with other Hide-Chan creations, though, this one shows remarkable restraint. While I sip the soup, Hideto pulls out his cell phone and plays a video of him layering hot pork cheeks and cold noodles into a hollowed-out porcelain skull, then dumping a cocktail shaker filled with chili oil, shrimp oil, truffle oil, and dashi over the top. Other creations include spicy arrabbiata ramen with pancetta and roasted tomatoes, foie gras ramen with orange jam and blueberry miso, and black ramen made with bamboo ash dipped into a mix of miso and onions caramelized for forty-five days.

Kamimura has been whispering all week of a sacred twenty-four-hour ramen spot located on a two-lane highway in Kurume where truckers go for the taste of true ramen. The shop is massive by ramen standards, big enough to fit a few trucks along with those drivers, and in the midafternoon a loose assortment of castaways and road warriors sit slurping their noodles. Near the entrance a thick, sweaty cauldron boils so aggressively that a haze of pork fat hangs over the kitchen like waterfall mist. While few are audacious enough to claim ramen is healthy, tonkotsu enthusiasts love to point out that the collagen in pork bones is great for the skin. "Look at their faces!" says Kamimura. "They're almost seventy years old and not a wrinkle! That's the collagen. Where there is tonkotsu, there is rarely a wrinkle." He's right: the woman wears a faded purple bandana and sad, sunken eyes, but even then she doesn't look a day over fifty. She's stirring a massive cauldron of broth, and I ask her how long it's been simmering for. "Sixty years," she says flatly. This isn't hyperbole, not exactly. Kurume treats tonkotsu like a French country baker treats a sourdough starter- feeding it, regenerating, keeping some small fraction of the original soup alive in perpetuity. Old bones out, new bones in, but the base never changes. The mother of all ramen. Maruboshi Ramen opened in 1958, and you can taste every one of those years in the simple bowl they serve. There is no fancy tare, no double broth, no secret spice or unexpected toppings: just pork bones, noodles, and three generations of constant simmering. The flavor is pig in its purest form, a milky broth with no aromatics or condiments to mitigate the purity of its porcine essence.

In theory, toppings can include almost anything, but 95 percent of the ramen you consume in Japan will be topped with chashu, Chinese-style roasted pork. In a perfect world, that means luscious slices of marinated belly or shoulder, carefully basted over a low temperature until the fat has rendered and the meat collapses with a hard stare. Beyond the pork, the only other sure bet in a bowl of ramen is negi, thinly sliced green onion, little islands of allium sting in a sea of richness. Pickled bamboo shoots (menma), sheets of nori, bean sprouts, fish cake, raw garlic, and soy-soaked eggs are common constituents, but of course there is a whole world of outlier ingredients that make it into more esoteric bowls, which we'll get into later. While shape and size will vary depending on region and style, ramen noodles all share one thing in common: alkaline salts. Called kansui in Japanese, alkaline salts are what give the noodles a yellow tint and allow them to stand up to the blistering heat of the soup without degrading into a gummy mass. In fact, in the sprawling ecosystem of noodle soups, it may be the alkaline noodle alone that unites the ramen universe: "If it doesn't have kansui, it's not ramen," Kamimura says. Noodles and toppings are paramount in the ramen formula, but the broth is undoubtedly the soul of the bowl, there to unite the disparate tastes and textures at work in the dish. This is where a ramen chef makes his name. Broth can be made from an encyclopedia of flora and fauna: chicken, pork, fish, mushrooms, root vegetables, herbs, spices. Ramen broth isn't about nuance; it's about impact, which is why making most soup involves high heat, long cooking times, and giant heaps of chicken bones, pork bones, or both. Tare is the flavor base that anchors each bowl, that special potion- usually just an ounce or two of concentrated liquid- that bends ramen into one camp or another. In Sapporo, tare is made with miso. In Tokyo, soy sauce takes the lead. At enterprising ramen joints, you'll find tare made with up to two dozen ingredients, an apothecary's stash of dried fish and fungus and esoteric add-ons. The objective of tare is essentially the core objective of Japanese food itself: to pack as much umami as possible into every bite.

Si l’humanité s’est écartée des conditions initiales dont je parlais, si elle a renoncé, sans le savoir et sans le vouloir, à la stabilité à laquelle elle pouvait tendre, on pouvait supposer qu’étant arrivée à un certain niveau, elle s’y serait stabilisée, comme les abeilles ont pu se stabiliser (elles ont trouvé certains procédés de construction, d’accumulation des réserves), et demeurer en cet état indéfiniment, comme il semble que les abeilles y soient demeurées, nous aurions pu arriver à concevoir une humanité comme une fourmilière ou une ruche d’abeilles. Pas du tout. Elle n’a cessé de s’écarter de son bien-être, le bien-être n’a pas suffi à l’humanité. Hélas ! dans bien des cas on pourrait se lamenter à ce sujet et pleurer, mais il s’est trouvé toujours que les hommes se soient écartés de la norme déjà établie, que des hommes, des penseurs par exemple aient spéculé assez pour trouver que la stabilité acquise était une stabilité insuffisante, très insuffisante. C’est pourquoi j’ai pu prononcer dans ma dernière leçon ce mot de l’aventure qui m’a paru résumer la vie humaine dans son ensemble. L’aventure... c’est-à-dire ce fait qu’il y a eu un changement qui a toujours etendu à repousser, à nier, à ruiner les conditions d’existence, même favorables, même satisfaisantes pour la majorité des individus, et qui a tendu à détruire cet ordre-là, à le renverser. J’avais associé à ce mot-là le mot le plus connu de progrès, mais je préfère celui d’aventure, et je vais vous dire pourquoi le terme de progrès, que j’ai essayé de préciser en le ramenant à ce qui est observable, progrès que j’ai défini par l’accroissement de précision dans les mesures marquées par les décimales qu’on peut calculer et observer : progrès dans l’acquisition des moyens d’action, progrès de puissance mécanique, nombre de chevaux-vapeur par tête à telle époque, progrès dans les automatismes sociaux, par conséquent progrès qui permet de commander beaucoup plus d’éléments humains ou matériels à l’aide d’un plus petit effort, diminution de l’effort à accomplir. Tout ceci est parfaitement observable, ce ne sont pas des chimères. On a ajouté à cela une véritable religion du progrès, qui fait croire que, quoi qu’il en soit après bien des aventures, beaucoup d’expériences, l’humanité marche toujours vers une amélioration de son sort.

Hij genoot van de verschillende afvalcontainers die overal stonden, van de ingeblikte groenten in de ziekenhuiskoele winkels – supermarkten werden ze genoemd –, hij genoot van de trams en hun heupdans die de passagiers heen en weer schudde wanneer zij klingelend een bocht maakten, hij genoot van de bomen die overal voor schaduw zorgden, compleet met een kroost van groene houten banken en een vuilnisbak, hij genoot van de grachten, die rimpelend een wiegenlied voor hem zongen, hij genoot van de vooroverhellende en schuine grachtenpanden, hij genoot van de standbeelden bedekt met patina en duivenuitwerpselen, hij genoot van het bruisen van zo veel mensenlevens, hij genoot van de pleinen en de onberispelijke kantoorgebouwen met ramen waarin het universum weerkaatste, van de vele straatbelichting, de neonreclames – de stad was 's nachts een ware boomgaard van kleurig neon –, hij genoot van de markten waar het rook naar gezouten vis, gebrande noten en kaas, van de vele eethuizen die met de mensen mee waren geëmigreerd, hij genoot van de fietsers die elke verkeersregel overtraden, hij genoot van het stille lawaai en de zinderende sensualiteit die de meisjes uitwasemden en van verliefde stellen die hun liefde op straat uitstalden voor voorbijgangers, hij genoot van het wolkenheer, van de regens en de buien, van de natte zonnen op regendagen als beslagen brillenglazen, van de regenplassen en hun weerspiegelingen, hij genoot van de chaos, van de beierd ver weg tussen het hooi van zijn doofheid, hij genoot van de duiven, van de zwervers met hun winkelwagentjes vol onbegrijpelijke huisraad, van de drankschuiten die over de effen straten kapseisden, zijwaarts hellend door een overbelaste lever, hij genoot van de sissende venters van genotsmiddelen, hij genoot van de drukke winkelstraten waar alles wat men nodig had te koop was en alles wat men niet nodig had, hij genoot van de rosse buurten en de uitstalling van vrouwelijk vlees, dat niet aan duitloze hem besteed was, van de vele kroegen en bars waarin klanten dronken en kwetterden en zich ontlastten zoals de vogels in de johannesbroodboom van Cheira en Heira, hij genoot van de welvaart die de mensen zichtbaar goeddeed, vooral de vrouwen met hun papieren tassen vol nieuwe aankopen in de weekeinden en hun ontspannen roddels en koetjes en kalfjes op terrassen, op vensterbanken achter de geraniums, hij genoot van de broeders die steeds in aantal toenamen en hem eerbiedig bejegenden wanneer hij hun bedwelmende koopwaar weigerde, met eerbied want hij was een van hem en het deed hem goed om te zien dat ze hoe dan ook werk hadden gevonden, hij genoot van de levendige rusteloosheid van dit alles, van de Amstel die voor verfrissing zorgde en het land bevloeide en het meest genoot hij van de ultieme wonderen in het park, dat hij nu betrad.

Because for all my massive appetite, I cannot cook to save my life. When Grant came to my old house for the first time, he became almost apoplectic at the contents of my fridge and cupboards. I ate like a deranged college frat boy midfinals. My fridge was full of packages of bologna and Budding luncheon meats, plastic-wrapped processed cheese slices, and little tubs of pudding. My cabinets held such bounty as cases of chicken-flavored instant ramen noodles, ten kinds of sugary cereals, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and cheap canned tuna. My freezer was well stocked with frozen dinners, heavy on the Stouffer's lasagna and bags of chicken tenders. My garbage can was a wasteland of take-out containers and pizza boxes. In my defense, there was also always really good beer and a couple of bottles of decent wine. My eating habits have done a pretty solid turnaround since we moved in together three years ago. Grant always leaved me something set up for breakfast: a parfait of Greek yogurt and homemade granola with fresh berries, oatmeal that just needs a quick reheat and a drizzle of cinnamon honey butter, baked French toast lingering in a warm oven. He almost always brings me leftovers from the restaurant's family meal for me to take for lunch the next day. I still indulge in greasy takeout when I'm on a job site, as much for the camaraderie with the guys as the food itself; doesn't look good to be noshing on slow-roasted pork shoulder and caramelized root vegetables when everyone else is elbow-deep in a two-pound brick of Ricobene's breaded steak sandwich dripping marinara.

I put a pot of water on the stove to boil. I don’t know what I’m going to make for dinner, but it’s probably going to involve some sort of noodle being boiled in water, be it of the ramen or spaghetti or spiral noodle variety.

Les livres sont comme un voyage dans le temps. Tous les vrais lecteurs savent cela. Mais ils ne vous ramènent pas seulement à l'époque où ils ont été écrits, ils peuvent aussi vous ramener à d'autres versions de vous-même.

Mankind is Noodlekind.

I pushed the white onions that were floating on top of my ramen aside with my chopsticks and said nothing. Onions smell, so I hate them.

Zo werd het voorjaar, dat zo direct aanwezig was langs het jaagpad waar het fluitekruid het groot hoeiblad trachtte te verdringen maar dat verdween tussen de huizen waar slechts hier en daar klein kruiskruid, dat het gehele jaar door bloeit, tussen de straatstenen stond zodat zij de lente was op het schoolplein, elke dag opnieuw als ik op de eerste verdieping achter de ramen stond om haar te zien binnenrijden.

On ne saura jamais quel a été le patient zéro de l'hystérie. Le promoteur de cette maladie pourrait être le serpent qui a incité Eve à donner la pomme défendue à Adam. La nudité leur apparut alors comme une menace, puis la sexualité comme un danger permanent. L'hystérie du paradis terrestre était alors unisexe et le port de vêtements en a été le premier symptôme. Dans l'Égypte pharaonique, l'hystérie est devenue sexuée, elle ne concernait plus que le genre féminin, car la médecine était une exclusivité masculine. Les maladies où le corps s'exprimait de façon incompréhensible ne pouvaient toucher que des femmes. Les symptômes erratiques de l'hystérie étaient interprétés comme une errance de l'utérus à travers toutes les parties du corps. Pour ramener l'utérus à sa place, les médecins prescrivaient des fumigations de cire brûlée à l'entrée du vagin. On ignore les résultats de cette méthode; on peut au moins supposer que le mal changeait de nature. Plus tard, c'est l'exorcisme qui devint le traitement idéal, suite au diagnostic alléguant une possession du corps par le démon. Il s'agissait toujours du corps des femmes, car les thérapeutes, tous mâles, étaient également prêtres et ne pouvaient être pénétrés par le démon, ou alors avec la discrétion qui convient aux hommes d'Église. Beaucoup plus tard, quand les symptômes de l'hystérie ont été mis en évidence chez les mâles sapiens, il a bien fallu innocenter l'utérus et le démon. On a alors choisi le cerveau comme siège de la maladie; il eût été inconvenant de choisir la prostate ou les testicules.

Atticus: I've been working there four fucking weeks! I'm going to be eating ramen noodles for the rest of my life. Asher: Never tried them. Atticus: Dude, fucking disgusting. Trust me. Asher: Matilda's making roast au jus for dinner tonight with those homemade Yorkshire puddings you like. Atticus: I hate you. Loathe. Despise. Basically every synonym for hate there is. Asher: Call me? My phone rang a minute later, and I whined long and loud into the receiver in place of saying hello. I'd been accused of being overly dramatic in the past. There might be some truth behind it. Asher chuckled. "You're pathetic." "Why have you not run away with me? We've been separated. I can't stand it. It's like the individual cells in my body are trying to divide again and make another you. It hurts. I can't do it twice." I whimpered again for emphasis. "Ash, I'm screwed, and not in the bend me over the hood of the Jag and pound my ass type of way. The bad way. The painful way. The oh-crap-my-bank-account-is-in-the-negative way. I'm fast running out of ideas, and you're over there living the high life and eating roast au jus with my goddamn Yorkshire puddings." "I get the sense you're trying to tell me something, but whatever it is, it's getting lost in translation. You're rambling. What's going on? Speak-a the English. What's the problem?" "What isn't the problem? I'm poor and miserable. I was not ready for adulthood this soon. Tell Mom and Dad it was all lies. It was a phase. I'm over it. Ha, good joke, right?" "Riiight, and how do you propose I magically make the burned image of your mouth around Ryan Vector's cock disappear from Matilda's mind?" "Fuck. You know what? We don't need a housekeeper. Fire her ass! Tell Mom and Dad she's a big fat liar who lies and hates me. Tell them she's stealing from them. She's an illegal immigrant! No, tell them, she's a housekeeper by day and a hooker by night. I saw her walking the streets of Fifth Avenue after sundown in a mini skirt and fishnet stockings." I paused, envisioning our sixty-year-old housekeeper/used-to-be-nanny in that kind of attire. Asher and I both audibly ewwed at the exact same time. "Dude, that's fucking gross as shit, and you know it. I just threw up in my mouth. Why would you put that image in my head?" "I regret many of my life decisions. Add it to the list. Ash, I'm serious. Just make something up. Get rid of her. We don't need a housekeeper, and we're long past requiring a nanny. Especially one who walks into rooms without knocking. What was she thinking?" "The door wasn't closed." "Not the time, Ash!" "Okay, so let's pretend for five minutes Matilda dies in a horrible car crash." "We could make that happen.

I ate some ramen out of a mug and watched the only channel on the television, which happened to be Evangelical TV—twenty-four-seven hymns to heal your soul. I sang along, not because I was particularly religious, but damn, some of these songs were as catchy as Chlamydia in Vegas.

Uncomfortable and anxious, Jiyoung lay awake next to her sister that night and calmly went over the things that had happened. She thought about menstruation and ramen. About ramen and sons. Sons and daughters. Sons and daughters and chores.

One giant bowl of perfectly cooked ramen in rich, golden pork broth, densely packed with noodles and with an egg, boiled to just the right degree of softness, perched on top, beneath a sprinkling of bright, crunchy green scallions. She could almost taste it, and feel it in her mouth, the rich glide of egg yolk, the chewy, toothsome tangle of noodles, the sharp bite of scallion, and the comforting warmth of the broth, as salty as the ocean.

Wat Bella wil. Wat Bella wil is wat ze niet kan krijgen. Wat zij wil is open ramen tijdens zomernachten. Lange strandwandelingen. Geen angst om met autopech langs de weg te staan. Geen vrees voor het donker. Geen schrik voor straatbende. Geen commentaar op straat. Geen vluchtige aanrakingen in de ondergrondse. Geen gestreel meer van hun ego's uit beduchtheid voor de vuist in het gezicht, de gebroken neus, het bloed en het snot die in haar mond lopen. Bella werd als vrij mens geboren en is nu aan alle kanten getekend. Usurpators hebben haar erfenis gestolen, en die moet ze terugeisen. 'Het is niet eerlijk,' zei ze. 'Dat weet ik.

My non-Catholic friends have often asked me what the Eucharist – the unleavened bread that is consecrated to become the body of Christ via the process of transubstantiation (phew) – tastes like. My answer, unfailingly, is that it’s a little like a dry ramen noodle except instead of salt it contains guilt.

And to think, I’d spent an evening eating extremely good ramen with this guy.

Face à la montée des couches populaires en 1985–1986, la classe dominante avait renoncé à la maîtrise directe de l’appareil politico-administratif. Elle se contente, dans la plupart des cas, d’inspirer et de piloter à distance la politique économique et monétaire. Exemples ? Le long discours-programme rédigé en partie par le secteur privé et lu par le général-président Henry Namphy en mars-avril 1986. En 1991–1992, à la suite de l’embargo imposé pour ramener Aristide au pouvoir, elle abandonnait ses projets d’industrialisation. Elle se concentrait sur la recherche du profit, laissant aux couches moyennes la triste et ingrate besogne de la gestion de la misère du peuple et de la répression. Il faut vraiment que ses intérêts paraissent en grand danger pour qu’elle se résigne à « aller au charbon », comme lorsqu’il fut nécessaire de mobiliser l’Association des Industries d’Haïti afin d’abattre Jean-Claude Duvalier, à la fin de janvier 1986, quand celui-ci avait épuisé sa durée de vie politique utile. Ce scénario rappelle l’apologue du chien hollandais que conte Chateaubriand dans ses Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe : « Quand les Hollandais essuient un coup de vent en haute mer, ils se retirent dans l’intérieur du navire, ferment les écoutilles et boivent du punch, laissant un chien sur le pont pour aboyer à la tempête; le danger passé, on renvoie Fidèle à sa niche au fond de la cale, et le capitaine revient jouir du beau temps sur le gaillard. » Voilà ce qui pourrait fort bien s’appliquer tant à Jean-Claude Duvalier qu’à Henry Namphy, à cette différence près que la bourgeoisie haïtienne, au lieu de les renvoyer à la cale, les a simplement basculés par-dessus bord.

Following the crowds came the blog entries. My early favorite read: “I thought for sure the soup would have a ketchup flavor to it, so I was surprised and thrilled to eat such an authentic, delicious bowl of ramen. Sorry, Ivan, for thinking such negative things about you.” Every news article, blog post, TV interview, and conversation focused on the gaijin angle. Every positive review started, “I expected Ivan Ramen to be terrible, but …” The online forums were alive with conspiracy theories. Some people said I was a front for a large Korean corporation; others claimed that I was just a front for a Japanese chef; my favorite one speculated that I was really Japanese and was just pretending to be a foreigner.

She thought about menstruation and ramen. About ramen and sons. Sons and daughters. Sons and daughters and chores.

In de namiddag is Eva langsgekomen. Ik weet nog maar half er gebeurd is. Ik geloof dat zij zich niet goed voelde. Ik herinner mij tranen en gestotter. Een rood aangelopen gezicht. Ik herinner mij dat ik niet gevraagd heb waarom ze huilde. Dat ik een heel betoog heb afgestoken. Over de leegte van het leven, en de onmogelijkheid van echte liefde, en het gore perspectief van de gewisse dood. Over hoe geen mens te vertrouwen valt. Of zo. Ik geloof zelfs dat ik op het einde ben beginnen te janken. Uit angst, geloof ik toch. Om te sterven. Of uit zelfmedelijden. Ik gok een beetje naar de inhoud, maar zoiets moet het geweest zijn. Ik ken de verhalen van anderen over mijn speeches als ik ver genoeg heen ben. Dan gulpt er alles uit wat op nuchterder kwartieren dapper binnen wordt gehouden. Achter dichtgespijkerde ramen en op slot gedraaide deuren. Een mens moet wat.

Wie leest over de maanden van de Blitz, stuit op de ene na de andere beschrijving van een wonderlijke kalmte die neerdaalde over Londen. Een Amerikaanse journalist interviewde een Brits echtpaar in hun keuken. Terwijl de ramen trilden, genoten ze rustig van hun thee. Waren ze niet bang, vroeg de journalist. 'O nee. En als we dat waren, wat zouden we daaraan hebben?

Inside an H Mart complex, there will be some kind of food court, an appliance shop, and a pharmacy. Usually, there's a beauty counter where you can buy Korean makeup and skin-care products with snail mucin or caviar oil, or a face mask that vaguely boasts "placenta." (Whose placenta? Who knows?) There will usually be a pseudo-French bakery with weak coffee, bubble tea, and an array of glowing pastries that always look much better than they taste. My local H Mart these days is in Elkins Park, a town northeast of Philadelphia. My routine is to drive in for lunch on the weekends, stock up on groceries for the week, and cook something for dinner with whatever fresh bounty inspires me. The H Mart in Elkins Park has two stories; the grocery is on the first floor and the food court is above it. Upstairs, there is an array of stalls serving different kinds of food. One is dedicated to sushi, one is strictly Chinese. Another is for traditional Korean jjigaes, bubbling soups served in traditional earthenware pots called ttukbaegis, which act as mini cauldrons to ensure that your soup is still bubbling a good ten minutes past arrival. There's a stall for Korean street food that serves up Korean ramen (basically just Shin Cup noodles with an egg cracked in); giant steamed dumplings full of pork and glass noodles housed in a thick, cakelike dough; and tteokbokki, chewy, bite-sized cylindrical rice cakes boiled in a stock with fish cakes, red pepper, and gochujang, a sweet-and-spicy paste that's one of the three mother sauces used in pretty much all Korean dishes. Last, there's my personal favorite: Korean-Chinese fusion, which serves tangsuyuk---a glossy, sweet-and-sour orange pork---seafood noodle soup, fried rice, and black bean noodles.

Les livres sont comme un voyage dans le temps. Tous les vrais lecteurs savent cela. Mais ils ne vous ramènent pas seulement à l’époque où ils ont été écrits, ils peuvent aussi vous ramener à d’autres versions de vous-même. La dernière fois que j’avais ouvert le livre que je tenais entre les mains, je devais avoir onze ou douze ans. J’aime à penser que c’était l’été et que je veillais à une heure tardive, dans ma chambre exiguë, sous un simple drap, un moustique bourdonnant sûrement dans un coin de la pièce. Mon père écoutait ses disques dans le salon, trop fort, en fonction de son degré d’ébriété. La plupart des nuits se terminaient de la même façon, ma mère lui baissant sa musique - généralement du jazz, même s’il lui arrivait d’écouter des groupes de fusion, comme Frank Zappa ou Weather Report - et mon père râlant qu’elle ne le comprenait pas. Mais tout cela n’était qu’un bruit de fond, car je n’étais plus vraiment là, dans ma chambre. J’étais en Floride, en 1963, traînant parmi les promoteurs immobiliers véreux, les divorcées sexy, à boire de grands verres de bourbon. Et voilà qu’aujourd’hui, à bientôt quarante ans, mes yeux lisaient les mêmes mots, mes mains tournaient les mêmes pages que près de trente ans plus tôt, ces pages qu’un homme d’affaires ou une ménagère avaient tournées il y avait cinquante ans. Un voyage dans le temps.

Utlannings are strangers from our own world. Framlings are strangers of our own species, but from another world. Ramen are strangers of another species, but capable of communication with us, capable of co-existence with humanity. Last are varelse—and what are they?” “The pequeninos are not varelse. Neither is the hive queen.” “But the descolada is. Varelse. An alien life form that’s capable of destroying all of humanity …” “Unless we can tame it …” “ … Yet which we cannot possibly communicate with, an alien species that we cannot live with. You’re the one who said that in that case war is unavoidable. If an alien species seems bent on destroying us and we can’t communicate with them, can’t understand them, if there’s no possibility of turning them away from their course peacefully, then we are justified in any action necessary to save ourselves, including the complete destruction of the other species.

But I knew myself, and I knew that I’d been a thousand times happier eating ramen with him in his dorm room than I’d ever been attending some fancy gala draped in jewels and a fake smile.

Maybe she hadn't worked in a restaurant, but anyone who made their cookbooks look like that must have known something. I flipped through a few others. Thai salads, meringue-topped cakes, Carolina barbecue. Then on the bottom shelves, I found a row of cheap black-and-white speckled notebooks. They didn't fit the grown-up vibe of the rest of the room. Everyone has a soft spot, Jay had said. I reached for one. "Cooking Notes," it said in sparkly green pen on the cover. The handwriting was rounder. A kid's. "October 25," I read slowly, trailing my finger along the page. Fish sticks. Cook at 400F for two minutes longer than the box says. Hank likes one tablespoon ketchup and one tablespoon yellow mustard mixed together. Mom likes one tablespoon mayonnaise with juice of a quarter of a lemon and one teaspoon Tabasco. Hank's waffles. Toast Eggos on medium, put on butter and maple syrup, then microwave for ten seconds to melt everything together. I flicked through a year of little Ellie's cooking. A lot of it was her trying to dress up convenience food--- pancakes, ramen. Toward the end of the notebook, she'd started to try random scratch recipes. Ground Turkey Tacos had lots of stars and fireworks drawn around it, while another for zucchini omelets only had "Yuck.

Stalingrad is platgebrand. Ik zou te veel moeten opschrijven als ik er een beschrijving van zou willen geven Stalingrad platgebrand. Stalingrad ligt in de as. De stad is dood. Mensen zitten in kelders. Alles is uitgebrand De hete muren van de gebouwen zijn als de lichamen van mensen die in de verschrikkelijke hitte zijn omgekomen en nog niet zijn afgekoeld. Enorme gebouwen, gedenktekens, parken Borden: 'Hier oversteken' elektriciteitsdraden op een hoop, een slapende kat op een vensterbank, bloemen en gras in bloempotten. Een houten paviljoen waar ze bruiswater verkochten, staat wonderbaarlijk genoeg ongehavend tussen duizenden verbrande en half verwoeste stenen gebouwen. Een stad als Pompei, overvallen door rampspoed op een dag dat alles bloeide. Trams en auto's zonder ramen. Uitgebrande huizen met gedenkplaten: `I.V Stalin hield hier in 1919 een toespraak.' Een kinderziekenhuis met een gipsen vogel op het dak. Een vleugel is afgebroken, de ander gespreid klaar voor op vlucht. Het Cultuurpaleis: het gebouw is door het vuur fluweelachtig zwart geworden, en twee sneeuwwitte naakte beelden steken af tegen deze zwarte achtergrond. Rondzwervende kinderen, veel lachende gezichten. Veel mensen zijn halfgek. Avondrood boven een plein. Een beangstigende en vreemde schoonheid: door de duizenden lege ramen en daken zie je de lichtroze lucht. Een kolossaal pamflet met ordinaire kleuren: De stralende weg. Een gevoel van kalmte. De stad is na veel leed ter ziele gegaan en aan en oogt als het gezicht van een dode man die is overleden aan een dodelijke ziekte en eindelijk zijn eeuwige rust heeft gevonden. Opnieuw bommen, bommen op de dode stad.

Stalingrad is platgebrand. Ik zou te veel moeten opschrijven als ik er een beschrijving van zou willen geven. Stalingrad is platgebrand. Stalingrad ligt in de as. De stad is dood. Mensen zitten in kelders. Alles is uitgebrand. De hete muren van de gebouwen zijn als de lichamen van mensen die in de verschrikkelijke hitte zijn omgekomen en nog niet zijn afgekoeld. Enorme gebouwen, gedenktekens, parken Borden: 'Hier oversteken' Elektriciteitsdraden op een hoop, een slapende kat op een vensterbank, bloemen en gras in bloempotten. Een houten paviljoen waar ze bruiswater verkochten, staat wonderbaarlijk genoeg ongehavend tussen duizenden verbrande en half verwoeste stenen gebouwen. Een stad als Pompei, overvallen door rampspoed op een dag dat alles bloeide. Trams en auto's zonder ramen. Uitgebrande huizen met gedenkplaten: `I.V Stalin hield hier in 1919 een toespraak.' Een kinderziekenhuis met een gipsen vogel op het dak. Een vleugel is afgebroken, de ander gespreid klaar voor op vlucht. Het Cultuurpaleis: het gebouw is door het vuur fluweelachtig zwart geworden, en twee sneeuwwitte naakte beelden steken af tegen deze zwarte achtergrond. Rondzwervende kinderen, veel lachende gezichten. Veel mensen zijn halfgek. Avondrood boven een plein. Een beangstigende en vreemde schoonheid: door de duizenden lege ramen en daken zie je de lichtroze lucht. Een kolossaal pamflet met ordinaire kleuren: De stralende weg. Een gevoel van kalmte. De stad is na veel leed ter ziele gegaan en aan en oogt als het gezicht van een dode man die is overleden aan een dodelijke ziekte en eindelijk zijn eeuwige rust heeft gevonden. Opnieuw bommen, bommen op de dode stad.

Stalingrad is platgebrand. Ik zou te veel moeten opschrijven als ik er een beschrijving van zou willen geven. Stalingrad is platgebrand. Stalingrad ligt in de as. De stad is dood. Mensen zitten in kelders. Alles is uitgebrand. De hete muren van de gebouwen zijn als de lichamen van mensen die in de verschrikkelijke hitte zijn omgekomen en nog niet zijn afgekoeld. Enorme gebouwen, gedenktekens, parken Borden: 'Hier oversteken' Elektriciteitsdraden op een hoop, een slapende kat op een vensterbank, bloemen en gras in bloempotten. Een houten paviljoen waar ze bruiswater verkochten, staat wonderbaarlijk genoeg ongehavend tussen duizenden verbrande en half verwoeste stenen gebouwen. Een stad als Pompei, overvallen door rampspoed op een dag dat alles bloeide. Trams en auto's zonder ramen. Uitgebrande huizen met gedenkplaten: `I.V Stalin hield hier in 1919 een toespraak.' Een kinderziekenhuis met een gipsen vogel op het dak. Een vleugel is afgebroken, de ander gespreid klaar voor op vlucht. Het Cultuurpaleis: het gebouw is door het vuur fluweelachtig zwart geworden, en twee sneeuwwitte naakte beelden steken af tegen deze zwarte achtergrond. Rondzwervende kinderen, veel lachende gezichten. Veel mensen zijn halfgek. Avondrood boven een plein. Een beangstigende en vreemde schoonheid: door de duizenden lege ramen en daken zie je de lichtroze lucht. Een kolossaal pamflet met ordinaire kleuren: De stralende weg. Vassily Grossman Een gevoel van kalmte. De stad is na veel leed ter ziele gegaan en aan en oogt als het gezicht van een dode man die is overleden aan een dodelijke ziekte en eindelijk zijn eeuwige rust heeft gevonden. Opnieuw bommen, bommen op de dode stad.

Stalingrad is platgebrand. Ik zou te veel moeten opschrijven als ik er een beschrijving van zou willen geven. Stalingrad is platgebrand. Stalingrad ligt in de as. De stad is dood. Mensen zitten in kelders. Alles is uitgebrand. De hete muren van de gebouwen zijn als de lichamen van mensen die in de verschrikkelijke hitte zijn omgekomen en nog niet zijn afgekoeld. Enorme gebouwen, gedenktekens, parken Borden: 'Hier oversteken,' elektriciteitsdraden op een hoop, een slapende kat op een vensterbank, bloemen en gras in bloempotten. Een houten paviljoen waar ze bruiswater verkochten, staat wonderbaarlijk genoeg ongehavend tussen duizenden verbrande en half verwoeste stenen gebouwen. Een stad als Pompei, overvallen door rampspoed op een dag dat alles bloeide. Trams en auto's zonder ramen. Uitgebrande huizen met gedenkplaten: `I.V Stalin hield hier in 1919 een toespraak.' Een kinderziekenhuis met een gipsen vogel op het dak. Een vleugel is afgebroken, de ander gespreid klaar voor op vlucht. Het Cultuurpaleis: het gebouw is door het vuur fluweelachtig zwart geworden, en twee sneeuwwitte naakte beelden steken af tegen deze zwarte achtergrond. Rondzwervende kinderen, veel lachende gezichten. Veel mensen zijn halfgek. Avondrood boven een plein. Een beangstigende en vreemde schoonheid: door de duizenden lege ramen en daken zie je de lichtroze lucht. Een kolossaal pamflet met ordinaire kleuren: De stralende weg. Een gevoel van kalmte. De stad is na veel leed ter ziele gegaan en aan en oogt als het gezicht van een dode man die is overleden aan een dodelijke ziekte en eindelijk zijn eeuwige rust heeft gevonden. Opnieuw bommen, bommen op de dode stad.

Stalingrad is platgebrand. Ik zou te veel moeten opschrijven als ik er een beschrijving van zou willen geven. Stalingrad is platgebrand. Stalingrad ligt in de as. De stad is dood. Mensen zitten in kelders. Alles is uitgebrand. De hete muren van de gebouwen zijn als de lichamen van mensen die in de verschrikkelijke hitte zijn omgekomen en nog niet zijn afgekoeld. Enorme gebouwen, gedenktekens, parken Borden: 'Hier oversteken,' elektriciteitsdraden op een hoop, een slapende kat op een vensterbank, bloemen en gras in bloempotten. Een houten paviljoen waar ze bruiswater verkochten, staat wonderbaarlijk genoeg ongehavend tussen duizenden verbrande en half verwoeste stenen gebouwen. Een stad als Pompei, overvallen door rampspoed op een dag dat alles bloeide. Trams en auto's zonder ramen. Uitgebrande huizen met gedenkplaten: `I.V Stalin hield hier in 1919 een toespraak.' Een kinderziekenhuis met een gipsen vogel op het dak. Een vleugel is afgebroken, de ander gespreid klaar voor op vlucht. Het Cultuurpaleis: het gebouw is door het vuur fluweelachtig zwart geworden, en twee sneeuwwitte naakte beelden steken af tegen deze zwarte achtergrond. Rondzwervende kinderen, veel lachende gezichten. Veel mensen zijn halfgek. Avondrood boven een plein. Een beangstigende en vreemde schoonheid: door de duizenden lege ramen en daken zie je de lichtroze lucht. Een kolossaal pamflet met ordinaire kleuren: De stralende weg. Een gevoel van kalmte. De stad is na veel leed ter ziele gegaan en oogt als het gezicht van een dode man die is overleden aan een dodelijke ziekte en eindelijk zijn eeuwige rust heeft gevonden. Opnieuw bommen, bommen op de dode stad.

If I was going to make it to that one day, it would require sacrifices like blue box mac ’n’ cheese and ramen noodles.

- Ne jamais sous-estimer le danger de ne pas y aller, au bout du chemin. - Ne jamais confondre (j'ai confondu) les refuges, les oasis, les îles et les prisons. - Ne jamais ramener à leur maison les petites filles à bout de chemin.

The menu was full of foods that felt like home to me, but that also had a flair of originality. Brisket and matzo balls in a hearty bowl of ramen. Lox bowls with nori and crispy rice. Savory potato kugel and boureka pastries with hummus and fried artichokes with kibbeh. Knishes with kimchi and potato filling and a gochujang aioli. "This menu is so... Jewish." "So Jewish," Seth agreed. "And make sure you're saving room for dessert. The rugelach is unreal, and the rainbow cookies are---" he looked around, then lowered his voice--- "better than my mom's." One of the things I actually missed about living in New York was seeing all the fun twists people put on Jewish and Israeli food at restaurants and in delis. Nobody was doing that in Vermont. Maybe you could do that in Vermont, something whispered in my head. I was used to just pushing that voice away, but, for once, I let myself pause and consider it. Would it be that crazy to sell babka at my café? I bet people would love a thick, tender slice of the sweet bread braided with chocolate or cinnamon sugar or even something savory with their coffee. I could experiment with fun fillings, have a daily special. Or I could rotate shakshuka or sabich sandwiches on the brunch specials menu, since they both involved eggs. My regulars might see eggs poached in spicy tomato sauce and pitas stuffed with fried eggplant, eggs, and all the salad fixings as breaths of fresh air.

He detected a faint hint of tonkatsu in the broth, but the base was definitely chicken rather than pig bones. The broth wasn't quite transparent, but it was a great deal clearer than the turbid liquid that usually accompanied ramen these days. It seemed quite possible there was some kind of fish stock in there too. A garlicky, gingery aroma rose from the bowl. The noodles were the thin, straight type, and cooked slightly on the firm side. On top of them lay two slices of roast pork and another two of kamaboko fish cake. These were accompanied by bean sprouts, pickled bamboo shoots, and negi onion.

I swear, sometimes I get so mad at her for staying with him. I know I’m only fifteen and probably don’t understand all the reasons she chooses to stay, but I refuse to let her use me as her excuse. I don’t care if she’s too poor to leave him and we’d have to move into a crappy apartment and eat ramen noodles until I graduate. That would be better than this.

stopped inside and the smell of roasting chicken hit my nose. My mouth started to water; Mom hadn’t shopped for at least a week before she disappeared. Last night I picked at the remainder of what was in the fridge. It was a little desperate; I was over ramen noodles and ketchup. A big counter of clear glass stretched across the wall of the store. I could see a huge selection of meats and cheeses waiting inside it. My eyes wandered to the big freezers with boxes and bags of food, and I felt like I was going to start drooling. There were booths arranged near the

Instead, we spent our downtime prodding at lifeless characters and wondering how long a human body could subsist on a diet of ramen and Coke before liver function ceased entirely.

That’s right, house one wing short of a mansion, 7 series in the driveway, and he was cooking the food that costs less than a quarter. Ramen noodles, the great equalizers of the classes.

Ik woon in een stille buurt, eindelijk, en heb de milde gewoonte aangenomen regelmatig een wandeling te maken in de omgeving. De weg die ik graag kies is smal, stil, aan het oog onttrokken en komt uit op een landgoed waarop een prachtig huis is gelegen: oplopende gazons, ruime serredeuren, een rieten dak, maar vooral intrigerende raampjes hoog in de gevel, waarachter ik van alles vermoed dat vroeger als gezellig te boek stond, zoals lezen, schrijven, in de vensterbank zitten, luisteren naar de regen en meer van die dingen. Als het donker wordt sta ik er wel eens stil, doe zoveel mogelijk een onschuldige voorbijganger na en hoop op het aangaan van het licht achter een van de ramen.

If sushi occupies a position in Japan’s food hierarchy akin to that of haute French in the West, then ramen’s culinary status hovers somewhere around the prestige of a sloppy joe. The status of instant ramen? Probably several notches below that.

Je n’en mourus pas. Mais quand ma voix se tut et de vis la terre refermée, je voulus la refaire surgir du néant, rappeler à la vie le hideux vieillard, permettre à son existence de se poursuivre même si son être ne pouvais pas vivre. Il méritait de mourir, sauf que rien ne mérite la mort, et j’aurais pu devenir fou en cet instant, partagé entre le besoin de ramener à la vie l’homme et la maison, et la certitude que leur destruction était nécessaire.

Zeg, Pa, je moeder was toch een Chinese? Dus jij bent een halve Chinees. En ik een kwart Chinees, die de weg in zijn DNA volgt met het snuffelen in de 'I Tjing', dat raadselachtige 'Boek der Veranderingen'. De 'I Tjing' zegt ergens in Hexagram 29: 'Want alleen door herhaling neemt de leerling de stof in zich op.' Helaas kennen ze hier in Holland geen kritische zelfreflectie. Ze leuteren maar wat over slaven, koelies, gastarbeiders en de kinderen van de koloniale liefde. Ooit verspreidden ze jullie eerste generatie Indischen over gans het land: in elke straat een Indische famile was zo'n beetje het quotum in de jaren vijftig. Ze hadden jullie beter in een getto kunnen stoppen. Den Haag-Zuid zou een populaire wijk zijn geworden, met ons, de volgende generaties, als de laatste resten gemixt tropisch Nederland achter de ramen en balkonnetjes, met elke zaterdag een braderie met Hawaiaanse muziek, indorock, vliegeren en lootjes trekken. Nu wonen de 'allochtonen' er bij elkaar, en hinderlijk veel politieauto's patrouilleren in de straten.

Sous ce toit, son rôle à lui était de ramener de l'argent, salir les assiettes et défaire les draps, sans savoir comment on avait lavé le linge et comment on avait préparé les repas.

Ik wil liggen in een karmozijnen kamerjas, afgezet met konijnenbont, die over de randen van mijn chaise longue heen en weer golft op de knus krakende vloer van oud hout, dat nooit meer zal werken, in het woonvertrek, dat mijn oude, betrouwbare butler zo warm stookt dat mijn gedachten smelten als de sneeuwvlokken tegen de buitenkant van de vuile ramen. En daar wil,ik toeven, in de zacht knisperende schemer van durende tijd die van geen uur wil weten, waar droombeelden voorbijglijden als handen over ogen, als schaduwen over de muur. De oude boter is nog goed. Ik kan hem eten met rijstvelden suiker. De krenten kunnen wellen in de ingekookte thee. Ik blaas de de vliegen weg. Terwijl ik wegdrijf in een halfslaap , krabtvde butler met een spateltje de bruine korsten van mijn voeten. 'Er is vandaag een brief gekomen,' zegt hij.' Maar niets om u zorgen over te maken. Ik heb hem ongeopend in de haard gegooid' ' ' Krijgen we bezoek?'' Ik zie het als mijn voornaamstectaakndat u rustig kan blijven slapen.

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Sellers know this and take advantage of it. The biggest magician in selling a feeling is Apple. They sell a perceived status with their products. Objectively thinking, some other competitors sell better quality products for half the price and they give a much better value. But come on, that’s not Apple. They are brilliant.

Nous pouvons encore préciser la signification du dédoublement du point par polarisation, telle que nous venons de l’exposer, en nous plaçant au point de vue proprement « ontologique » ; et, pour rendre la chose plus aisément compréhensible, nous pouvons envisager tout d’abord l’application du point de vue logique et même simplement grammatical. En effet, nous avons ici trois éléments, les deux points et leur distance, et il est facile de se rendre compte que ces trois éléments correspondent très exactement à ceux d’une proposition : les deux points représentent les deux termes de celle-ci, et leur distance, exprimant la relation qui existe entre eux, joue le rôle de la « copule », c’est-à-dire de l’élément qui relie les deux termes l’un à l’autre. Si nous considérons la proposition sous sa forme la plus habituelle et en même temps la plus générale, celle de la proposition attributive, dans laquelle la « copule » est le verbe « être »[1], nous voyons qu’elle exprime une identité, au moins sous un certain rapport, entre le sujet et l’attribut ; et ceci correspond au fait que les deux points ne sont en réalité que le dédoublement d’un seul et même point, se posant pour ainsi dire en face de lui-même comme nous l’avons expliqué. [1] Toutes les autres formes de propositions qu’envisagent certains logiciens peuvent toujours se ramener à la forme attributive parce que le rapport exprimé par celle-ci a un caractère plus fondamental que tous les autres.

My menu for this trip was pretty simple, mirroring the multi-day menu I typically use on longer backpacking trips. For dinner: ramen noodles cooked in miso soup with a 1 oz shot of olive oil for extra calories and fat (700-1400 calories.) Breakfast: pound cake or other quick bread, smashed flat to save space, and packed in plastic bags (1000 calories.) 3 snacks per day consisting of Snickers, cookies, salami and crackers, Cliff bars, nuts, or licorice (1000-1500 calories.)

I want the tiny apartment and clipping coupons and living on Ramen until payday. I want to balance the checkbook together and talk about our weekly budget, and pick up a sweater in the store just to hang it back on the rack because holding your hand is way better than carrying a bag full of clothes. I want to feel giddy to be with you at the movie theater once every two months because it's become something special instead of expected. I want to build our castle one block at a time ... just you and me. No easy outs.

For all the jokes about students living off ramen, undergraduates are significantly more likely to experience high levels of food insecurity (in technical terms: “hunger”) than to live in a dorm. 7 Millennials have changed what it means to be a college student in practice, but the American “Town vs. Gown” imaginary hasn’t been updated.

We shared deep passions. John Hughes movies, the New Romantics, the Chicago Bears. We both loved chicken-flavor Ramen and hated the shrimp flavor. We liked thin-crust pizza over deep dish, and wine over beer, and gin over vodka.

My little twenty-year-old thirteen-inch black-and-white TV had quit working a couple of months ago. I wouldn’t be able to watch Jimmy Stewart discover it was a wonderful life for the millionth time on Christmas Day, not this year. I tried to concentrate on crime in Isola, but kept thinking about those tips; planning how I’d spend the dough. I’d stock up on food first, can goods and package stuff I could heat up on my hotplate. And cases of Top Ramen for those lean times. Maybe I’d splurge on some cookies and a few snacks. A man needed something to look forward to in this dreary world. Heck, if I really made out like a bandit, maybe I could hold back a twenty so I could take a girl out to lunch. Maybe I’d even take her to the movies. Of course I’d have to find the girl, first.

Hidden Sources of Wheat Baguette Beignet Bran Brioche Bulgur Burrito Caramel coloring (?) Caramel flavoring (?) Couscous Crepe Croutons Dextrimaltose Durum Einkorn Emmer Emulsifiers Farina Faro Focaccia Fu (gluten in Asian foods) Gnocchi Graham flour Gravy Hydrolyzed vegetable protein Hydrolyzed wheat starch Kamut Maltodextrin Matzo Modified food starch (?) Orzo Panko (a bread crumb mixture used in Japanese cooking) Ramen Roux (wheat-based sauce or thickener) Rusk Rye Seitan (nearly pure gluten used in place of meat) Semolina Soba (mostly buckwheat but usually also includes wheat) Spelt Stabilizers Strudel Tabbouleh Tart Textured vegetable protein (?) Triticale Triticum Udon Vital wheat gluten Wheat bran Wheat germ Wraps

After all, Ramen is simply noodle soup. Simple in essence. Powerful in flavor.

Living simply doesn’t equal living in a dull manner. It means that your life doesn’t seem like a impossible puzzle to put together.

Ichiddo Minneapolis is Japanese noodle restaurant in Minneapolis. We have our special menu like donburi, fried rice, stir fried ramen, fresh appetizers, beverage and Ramen in Minneapolis.

Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts with the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden. In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.

trends fade as they were usurped by competitors (those same fajitas and sushi platters giving way first to burritos and ramen soups and then to fish tacos and izakayas), while trends like espresso coffee have assumed a permanent role in my diet. I’ve also seen heavily hyped trends vanish as suddenly as they have appeared, like thin snow hitting the ground. Watching Superbowl XXVII in 1993, I, like millions of others, was spellbound by the halftime commercial for Crystal Pepsi, with its new-age messages saying, “Right now, the future is ahead of you,” set to the tune of Van Halen’s “Right Now.” Suddenly

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Il se trouvera bien quelqu'un, un jour, pour venir me prendre par la main et me ramener à la maison. Quelqu'un qui, après avoir caressé mes cheveux, me laissera le temps de grandir.

- Bref, dit Frank, d’après mes cousins de Pylos, le dieu enchaîné qu’on doit trouver à Sparte est mon père. Enfin, Arès, pas Mars. Apparemment, les Spartiates gardaient dans leur ville une statue de lui couvert de chaînes pour que l’esprit de la guerre ne les quitte jamais. – D’accord, dit Léo. Les Spartiates étaient grave zoum-zoum. En même temps, nous, avec la Victoire ficelée dans l’écurie, on peut pas la ramener.

by best of luck, I mean I hope that one day you’ll meet someone amazing, text them a thoughtful message, take them to a monster truck rally, and then hopefully at some point, after a bowl of delicious ramen, make love to them in a Jurassic Park–themed love hotel in Tokyo.

On a coutume, dans le monde occidental, de considérer l’islamisme comme une tradition essentiellement guerrière et, par suite, lorsqu’il y est question notamment du sabre ou de l’épée (es-sayf), de prendre ce mot uniquement dans son sens le plus littéral, sans même penser jamais à se demander s’il n’y a pas là en réalité quelque chose d’autre. Il n’est d’ailleurs pas contestable qu’un certain côté guerrier existe dans l’islamisme, et aussi que, loin de constituer un caractère particulier à celui-ci, il se retrouve tout aussi bien dans la plupart des autres traditions, y compris le christianisme. Sans même rappeler que le Christ lui-même a dit : « Je ne suis pas venu apporter la paix, mais l’épée », ce qui peut en somme s’entendre figurativement, l’histoire de la Chrétienté au moyen âge, c’est-à-dire à l’époque où elle eut sa réalisation effective dans les institutions sociales, en fournit des preuves largement suffisantes ; et, d’autre part, la tradition hindoue elle-même, qui certes ne saurait passer pour spécialement guerrière, puisqu’on tend plutôt en général à lui reprocher de n’accorder que peu de place à l’action, contient pourtant aussi cet aspect, comme on peut s’en rendre compte en lisant la Bhagavadgîtâ. À moins d’être aveuglé par certains préjugés, il est facile de comprendre qu’il en soit ainsi, car dans le domaine social, la guerre, en tant qu’elle est dirigée contre ceux qui troublent l’ordre et qu’elle a pour but de les y ramener, constitue une fonction légitime, qui n’est au fond qu’un des aspects de la fonction de « justice » entendue dans son acception la plus générale. Cependant, ce n’est là que le côté le plus extérieur des choses, donc le moins essentiel : au point de vue traditionnel, ce qui donne à la guerre ainsi comprise toute sa valeur, c’est qu’elle symbolise la lutte que l’homme doit mener contre les ennemis qu’il porte en lui-même, c’est-à-dire contre tous les éléments qui, en lui, sont contraires à l’ordre et à l’unité. Dans les deux cas, du reste, et qu’il s’agisse de l’ordre extérieur et social ou de l’ordre intérieur et spirituel, la guerre doit toujours tendre également à établir l’équilibre et l’harmonie (et c’est pourquoi elle se rapporte proprement à la « justice »), et à unifier par là d’une certaine façon la multiplicité des éléments en opposition entre eux. Cela revient à dire que son aboutissement normal, et qui est en définitive son unique raison d’être, c’est la paix (es-salâm), laquelle ne peut être obtenue véritablement que par la soumission à la volonté divine (el-islâm), mettant chacun des éléments à sa place pour les faire tous concourir à la réalisation consciente d’un même plan ; et il est à peine besoin de faire remarquer combien, dans la langue arabe, ces deux termes, el-islâm et es-salâm, sont étroitement apparentés l’un à l’autre.

Airbnb reached “Ramen profitability” in 2010. Gebbia explained: “It’s the moment when you’re making enough in revenue to pay your rent and eat Top Ramen. If you can get to that moment, you have an unlimited runway.

ここ〹オ〹ンダ、〹ーボルト・〹ウスの展示室の一室。 南ホ〹ント州、アムステルダムから電車で30 分弱のところにある、あの画家のレンブラント

性ゃポテン〹ャルについて、20 分間話しました。 目をらんらんと輝かせて…… のはず〹、あれッ。

あとで、「あなたたち〹何がしたくて日本学〹へ入ったのですか？」と質問したところ、ほとんどの学生が「貿易関係」とか「経済に〹献できる

日本の〹ーメン産業の規模〹どれくらいですか？」 「麺の〹麦粉は、どの国から輸入していますか？」 〹〹ッ？ど〹もこ〹も、〹ーメンの「おいしさ」や「食文化」といった人間の自然な 好奇心から発せられる質問（「パスタとどちらがおいしいですか？」とか。そんな単純な質問〹来な〹〹）〹らは〹ーく離れた「経済」よりのぜんぜーん予期して〹な〹った質問〹飛んできます。 あとで、「あなたたち〹何がしたくて日本学〹へ入ったのですか？」と質問したところ、ほとんどの学生が「貿易関係」とか「経済に〹献できること」と答えてくれたため、この質問の〹図に対する疑問〹解消できたのですが、そのときは奇妙に思ったのです。 そ〹、オ〹ンダ〹天然ガスくらいしか資源〹ない国です。国土〹狭く

she might be home right now, eating ramen noodles and reading naked in bed.

Ik deed een stap achteruit en het enige wat ik zag was regen door de ramen die wel van smeltend zilver leken

The time period in question was before the proliferation of outsourcing, but there was already Craigslist as a “ready reserve” resource. I had to resolutely disregard interesting-but-unhelpful search terms with advertising of local people looking for “casual encounters” and “rants and raves.” In the possibly more helpful Craigslist category enigmatically titled “Gigs,” I typed in: Lawyer seeks help. College drop-out preferred. Long hours, pressure-cooker environment, unyielding schedule. Pays all the Ramen noodles you can eat. Great opportunity to broaden your horizons and enhance your resume! It was a truthful description of the job, and consequently, I did not expect many takers.

Cup ramen

You have to try this new recipe! It’s called bacon and egg ramen! It’s delicious!

This shift away from class and towards gender identity, race, and sexuality troubles traditional economic leftists, who fear that the left is being taken away from the working class and hijacked by the bourgeoisie within the academy. More worryingly still, it could drive working-class voters into the arms of the populist right.42 If the group it has traditionally supported—the working class—believe that the political left has abandoned them, the left may lose many of the voters it requires to attain political power. As it divests itself of universalism, this resentment is likely to grow. New York University historian Linda Gordon has summarized working-class resentment of intersectionality: Some criticism is ill-informed but understandable nevertheless. A poor white man associates intersectionality with being told that he has white privilege: “So when that feminist told me I had ‘white privilege,’ I told her that my white skin didn’t do shit.” He explains: “Have you ever spent a frigid northern-Illinois winter without heat or running water? I have. At 12 years old were you making ramen noodles in a coffee maker with water you fetched from a public bathroom? I was.”43 As intersectionality developed and became dominant in both mainstream political activism and scholarship, it became increasingly common to hear that “straight, white, cisgendered men” were the problem. For example, Suzanna Danuta Walters, editor-in-chief of the prestigious feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, penned a 2018 op-ed for the Washington Post that asks, with startling frankness, “Why can’t we hate men?”44 This is unlikely to endear intersectionalists to heterosexual white men—especially if they have experienced poverty, homelessness, or other major hardships. OF

Each person has a different idea about how they want to finish off a meal. The Japanese are avid noodle lovers. Eating ramen after having a drink is a classic thing for the Japanese. And then there's curry udon; the Japanese people love curry. So I'm sure there are many people who want to finish off the meal with that. If those two are a little too heavy, then kitsune udon or warm sōmen would be a lighter alternative." "Hmm?! So that's what you mean..." "Some people want to eat something sweet after a drink. And for them, there's red beans with shiratama dumplings... ... and anmitsu for those who want something a little heavy. For those who don't have a sweet tooth, there's tokoroten... ... and we also have grilled rice cakes wrapped in nori. And for the extreme sweet lovers, we've made Western style desserts as well: frozen yogurt, chocolate parfait, vanilla milkshake and donuts.

I..." Caspian begins in his monotone, emotionless voice. "...love ramen.

Mapo-tofu ramen? So it’s Chinese food topped with Chinese food.

But I also watched him closely, waiting to see that love of food. The surprised delight on his face when he took his first slurp of the brisket ramen, enjoying the tender shreds of savory meat, the chew of the crinkly noodles, the light but complex broth that hid the reveal of a plush matzah ball with a thick corn flavor. The concentration as he tried to place the flavor of the rub on the bowl of shredded carnitas that we portioned out ourselves and wrapped in marbled rye tortillas with tiny sour pickles and thinly sliced red onions and shreds of Havarti cheese. ("It's a pastrami sandwich," he murmured as he took the first bite.) The sheer pleasure as he closed his eyes while chewing the duck, rosy and meaty in the middle and crispy-skinned on the outside, in one perfect bite with pickled and fresh beets. I didn't have to look hard. It radiated out of his very soul.

The sex isn’t great. The buildup was certainly more intense. The actual show only lasted a minute at best. But considering the last times with Sammy we were living off ramen in a hole in the wall with no hot water and having sex on a mattress on the floor, this isn’t the worst

dégrisement /degʀizmɑ̃/ nm sobering up dégriser /degʀize/ I. vtr 1. (dessoûler) to sober [sb] up 2. (ramener à la réalité) to bring [sb] to his/her senses II. vpr 1. (dessoûler) to sober up 2. (revenir à la réalité) to come to one's senses

Hmm... the noodles are good. I can taste the flour; their scent and flavor are clear, not masked by the smell of kansui. Ah, this is good broth. You used only chicken to make it. You did well with the condiments, too. You cannot get such a rich flavor unless you use condiments made from pure ingredients. And I see you used Chinese vinegar. Hmm. This barbecued pork is well made. It's Kurobuta from the Kagoshima prefecture that has been fed properly on sweet potatoes. The cucumber was organically grown, without pesticides or even herbicides. This egg is impressive too. Only a chicken that has been properly grass-fed in a healthy environment can lay an egg this good.

Even though hiyashi chūka is a dish that was developed in Japan, does it make a difference or not if one prepares it using Chinese ingredients? The most important things--- the noodles and the broth--- are both items borrowed from Chinese cuisine and are prepared using Chinese cooking methods. The barbecued pork on top is also Chinese-style. Which obviously means that Chinese condiments would be better suited to it. Chinese soy sauce and Japanese soy sauce taste different. The same goes for the sake and mirin. Shirō used the best ingredients he could get his hands on in Japan. That is perfectly fine as long as you're making Japanese food. But the Chinese condiments have a far better chemistry with the dish. Shirō paid great attention to each of the ingredients individually but neglected to consider the dish as a whole. Because the ingredients are Chinese, by using Chinese condiments... ... he was able to blend the flavors into one, which is impossible to do with Japanese condiments.

You're going to make the broth for the ramen with katsuobushi?" "The chicken you used to make the broth for the ramen is a broiler, right? In that case, it's better to make it with katsuobushi." "But the ramen's going to end up smelling like fish." "Don't worry about it. I mince some garlic, chives, shiitake mushrooms, and onion... ... and fry them together with ground pork in sesame oil. Then I add some hatchō miso that's been mixed with sake... ... to make miso-flavored mince meat. I pour the katsuobushi dashi onto the noodles. I've given the dashi a light soy sauce flavor. Then I place the meat on top... ... and sprinkle a lot of chopped green onion on it... ... and you've got Oishinbo-style miso ramen!" "Wow! It really does go well with the katsuobushi! It doesn't smell fishy at all!" "The scents of the sesame oil, garlic and miso... ... complement the scent of the katsuobushi nicely! Ramen broth is usually made from chicken and pork bones. I never thought of using fish!

I thought you said these were Chinese-style noodles... ...so I was expecting something with pork spareribs on top. The fish dumpling noodles in Hong Kong are good... but I've never seen anything like this in China. What's this on the top?" "Barbecued pork made from Berkshire boar, and jakoten." " 'Jakoten'? " "It's a specialty from the Shikoku prefecture. They're fish cakes made from ground sardines and deep-fried in oil. They're nutritious and taste good too." "Sardines, is it?" "Ah, this barbecued pork is completely different from Chinese-style barbecued pork!" "And this soup?" "I made the stock with pork bones and flying fish yakiboshi... ... and boosted the flavor with some miso and soy sauce. I don't use any MSG in it." "Hmm... the combination of pork bones and yakiboshi isn't something that a Chinese chef would have thought of." "I've never tasted a soup like this before!" "The noodles have no kansui in them. After kneading the dough with eggs... ... I let it rest for a whole week." "Mmm... they're firm and flavorful!" "I haven't seen noodles like this in China either!" "The aged noodles taste so good!

/bɔʀde/ vtr 1. (suivre un contour) to line (de "with") • route bordée d'arbres | road lined ou bordered with trees, tree-lined road 2. (entourer) [plage, îles] to skirt [côte]; [plantes] to border [massif, lac] • une pelouse bordée de rosiers | a lawn bordered with rose bushes 3. (longer) [chemin, cours d'eau] to border, to run alongside [maison, terrain]; [marin, navire] to sail along [côte] • sentier bordant la forêt | track bordering the forest 4. (arranger la literie) to tuck in [lit]; to tuck [sb] in [personne] 5. (garnir) to edge [vêtement, lingerie] (de "with") • un mouchoir bordé de dentelle | a handkerchief edged with lace, a lace-trimmed handkerchief 6. (étarquer) [marin] to take up the slack in [voile] 7. (revêtir de bordages) (en bois) to plank; (en métal) to plate 8. (ramener) [rameur] to ship [avirons]

Dans l'ensemble de l'aire culturelle méditerranéenne, et pas seulement en terre d'Islam, la femme est depuis longtemps soumise à l'ordre patriarcal et ne se définit que par rapport aux hommes. Au Maghreb, elle n'a pas d'existence propre et autonome, Fatima ne sera jamais Fatima. Elle est donc fille bint Mustapha (fille de), ou mère oum Mustapha (mère de) ou ekht Mustapha (sœur de), selon son lien de parenté avec l'homme Mustapha. Hors de ces catégories, point de salut pour les femmes dans la doxa salafiste. Or l'émancipation progressive par l'éducation des filles de familles immigrées dans les années 70 et 80 mène tout droit et rapidement à l'effacement de ce schéma ainsi qu'à des phénomènes de fusion culturelle ou même familiale et a fortiori matrimoniale qui mettraient en péril le contrôle des fondamentalistes sur leur masse de manœuvre. L'idée est donc de ramener les femmes à leur état de domination et de contrôle par les mâles eux-mêmes déjà en voie de séparatisme. Difficile de faire appel à l'auctoritas patris. Dans les familles immigrées du Maghreb et du Sahel, les pères n'ont d'une façon générale qu'une autorité limitée. Ils sont parfois absents et souvent déconsidérés pour ne pas avoir trouvé dans la société d'accueil le statut et les revenus que la famille espérait. On ne peut guère compter sur eux pour ramener "dans le droit chemin" des filles qui leur ont déjà échappé par l'école. Les mères n'ayant pas voix au chapitre, c'est donc aux grands-frères qu'il incombera de faire sortir leurs sœurs et leurs femmes des chemins de l'intégration pour les isoler, les soustraire aux tentations modernistes occidentales impies et les placer sous la coupe des salafistes.

The aura of the place had shifted. Maybe I’d previously read or heard something about the cape. I don’t believe in ghosts, per se, but the mind is most definitely a haunted place.

Even, sometimes, top-down fiat: see the strange case of pad Thai, a Chinese-origin noodle dish (like ramen) that got “Thaified” with tamarind and palm sugar and decreed the national street food by the 1930s dictator Phibun—part of his campaign that included renaming Siam as Thailand, banning minority languages, and pushing Chinese vendors off the streets.

The boxing arena was exactly what I’d expected it to be: Big, garishly lit, and ridiculously loud. Why in the name of Beethoven’s Fifth had I let these people talk me into this insanity? Oh right, because they thought that I didn’t get out enough, and while I was completely happy sitting in the practice room with my violin for a few hours, stopping for some ramen on the walk to my apartment and finding something to watch on TV until I fell asleep, I’d allowed them to change my plans. Add that to the list of things I wasn’t going to allow to happen again. Watching two grown men beat the living snot out of each other was not what I called entertainment. I could pick a bar and see that for free just about any night, so why in the world would I pay for it?

Yeah, sure, if you want a Top Ramen night with a side of Takis.

Men kan zich in een vreemd land bv nutteloos gaan uitsloven, zich gaan bedienen van de taal en zelfs praat uitlokken in de openbare vervoermiddelen om erger te voorkomen. Ik herhaal: men kan zich natuurlijk best nutteloos gaan uitsloven. Maar kijkend uit de ramen wandelen er slechts enkele goed uitziende heren door de straat. Zij bezitten zoveel voeten dat zij onmogelijk kunnen omwaaien, maar ze bewegen zich te snel om nuttig gebruik te kunnen maken van hun luwte. Men kan zich in een vreemd land nutteloos gaan uitsloven.

Isabelle n’aimait pas la jouissance, mais Esther n’aimait pas l’amour, elle ne voulait pas être amoureuse, elle refusait ce sentiment d’exclusivité, de dépendance, et c’est toute sa génération qui le refusait avec elle. J’errais parmi eux comme une sorte de monstre préhistorique avec mes niaiseries romantiques, mes attachements, mes chaînes. Pour Esther, comme pour toutes les jeunes filles de sa génération, la sexualité n’était qu’un divertissement plaisant, guidé par la séduction et l’érotisme, qui n’impliquait aucun engagement sentimental particulier ; sans doute l’amour n’avait-il jamais été, comme la pitié selon Nietzsche, qu’une fiction inventée par les faibles pour culpabiliser les forts, pour introduire des limites à leur liberté et à leur férocité naturelles. Les femmes avaient été faibles, en particulier au moment de leurs couches, elles avaient eu besoin à leurs débuts de vivre sous la tutelle d’un protecteur puissant, et à cet effet elles avaient inventé l’amour, mais à présent elles étaient devenues fortes, elles étaient indépendantes et libres, et elles avaient renoncé à inspirer comme à éprouver un sentiment qui n’avait plus aucune justification concrète. Le projet millénaire masculin, parfaitement exprimé de nos jours par les films pornographiques, consistant à ôter à la sexualité toute connotation affective pour la ramener dans le champ du divertissement pur, avait enfin, dans cette génération, trouvé à s’accomplir. Ce que je ressentais, ces jeunes gens ne pouvaient ni le ressentir, ni même exactement le comprendre, et s’ils l’avaient pu ils en auraient éprouvé une espèce de gêne, comme devant quelque chose de ridicule et d’un peu honteux, comme devant un stigmate de temps plus anciens. Ils avaient réussi, après des décennies de conditionnement et d’efforts ils avaient finalement réussi à extirper de leur cœur un des plus vieux sentiments humains, et maintenant c’était fait, ce qui avait été détruit ne pourrait se reformer, pas davantage que les morceaux d’une tasse brisée ne pourraient se réassembler d’eux-mêmes, ils avaient atteint leur objectif : à aucun moment de leur vie, ils ne connaîtraient l’amour. Ils étaient libres

Waarom zou hij zich verzetten? Uit morele overwegingen? Kom nu; als je daaraan deed, kon je beter de rest van je leven thuis blijven zitten met dichtgespijkerde ramen en de deur op de grendel - dan had je een kleine kans dat je een fatsoenlijk mens bleef; alleen was er dan niemand die wist hoe fatsoenlijk je was.

Lou is one of a small group of bachelors whom we sometimes invite over for a meal at the last minute. It is never intimidating to cook for these men, as your culinary talents need only surpass those of Mr. Top and his ramen.

It is perhaps worth pointing out what criteria are not required in ordered to be considered lean in Eric Ries’ context: Bootstrapped Consuming unholy amounts of Top Ramen on a daily basis Unpaid workers Build system based on a 386 architecture Open cubicle culture Command-line interface Chairs without casters

I liked Dr. Linda a lot. She was nice and seemed to care about more than billing my insurance. That said, she had all the sense of humor of an uncooked brick of ramen.

where two Asian women were cooking ramen dishes.

Stupid fucker. I’ll be lucky if the fucking thing reaches my throat. I’ve slurped ramen thicker than him.

But the Speaker for the Dead, the one who wrote this book, he’s the wisest man who lived in the age of flight among the stars. While Ender was a murderer, he killed a whole people, a beautiful race of ramen that could have taught us everything—’ ‘Both human, though,’ whispered the Speaker.

I stopped in front of my new building, a thrill of pride running through me at the sight. The sight was bright and clear and elegant: Wander. Because my people had wandered all around the world for thousands of years of the Diaspora, picking up local culinary traditions and incorporating them into our own. Even if my menu had taken the incorporation in a more daring direction----some of the dishes I was most excited about were the brisket ramen and the kimchi chopped liver, a play on my finale appetizer but with Korean influences. Luke had helped me with that. It was the one dish that sat on both of our menus.

But my own style, I'd say, is more homestyle, with Jewish influences? Not kosher cooking; that's a different thing. I'm inspired by traditional Jewish cuisine." Paper rustled on the other end. "Right, the matzah ball ramen you cooked in your video looked fantastic. We were all drooling in the room!" I perked up. Forgot that I was naked. Forgot that lately I was a walking disaster. "That's one of my go-tos and will definitely be on my future menu. I've been experimenting lately with putting a spin on kugels..." As I chattered on, I could practically see my grandma shaking her head at me. Grandma Ruth had cooked up a storm for every Passover, Yom Kippur, and Chanukah, piling her table till it groaned with challah rolls, beef brisket in a ketchup-based sauce, and tomato and cucumber salad so fresh and herby and acidic it could make you feel like summer in the middle of winter.

I watch a couple more. My favorites are the cultural ones, because they have the strange feeling of being instruction manuals on becoming whatever ethnicity the person in the video is. One of my favorites has over six million views and combines the what-I-eat genres of "in a week," "Japanese food," "realistic," "teen," and "ASMR." I watch an entire twenty-five minutes of a girl in Tokyo with dyed wine-red-fading-into-pink hair eating sausages, toast, a Japanese corn dog made with hotcake mix dipped in ketchup, demae hot sesame ramen with an egg plopped in, pizza, stir-fried udon, seaweed salad and barley rice, tapioca and black tea ice cream, soy-glazed salmon on okayu, pearl milk bubble tea. Each time she eats, the microphone hones in on the sounds of her eating---slurping, chewing, crunching. When she drinks her bubble tea, there's a loud pop as the straw goes through the lid, and the sound of gulping. Gulp, gulp, gulp. I realize that I'm gulping along to the video, imagining that the bubble tea is blood.

I know something’s wrong; for weeks I’ve been throwing up every other day, always walking around feeling like someone’s massaging my stomach, trying to push the food up and out of me. Some months when I eat a little less because I’m tired of ramen or potatoes, I’m irregular. But the sickness and the vomiting make me think I should get a test, that and me being two months irregular, and the way I wake up every morning with my abdomen feeling full, fleshy and achy and wet, like the blood’s going to come running down any minute—only it doesn’t.

My feeling about social media is that Instagram and Facebook should be sources of pleasure. Use them in ways that suit you, but also know people will be aware of how you use them. Social media is a way we present ourselves to the world. Like dressing, it’s not the most important thing, but it does imply how you see yourself.    Don’t get mad if people don’t engage with every single thing you do. It’s online. It’s not real life.    There are endless things I don’t like on Instagram: pictures of food, of cats, of watches, of cars. There are sites devoted to just those things and people love them. That’s just not for me. I like pictures of travel and architecture, usually without people in them, what my friend calls “boring pictures.” Let people have their cult ramen and I’ll have Scottish coastlines. There’s room for everybody.    However, if you do start sharing your fabulous life people will take your measure by it. So don’t misrepresent things. Naturally Instagram can become a fine edit, but try not to brag. The same way you wouldn’t in your analog life.    Be aware of how your interaction with your phone and Instagram is affecting those around you. Do you want to delay every meal, every course, with your art-directed overhead shot? Get one shot if you must, then put the phone away and enjoy dinner!

Souviens-toi de te comporter dans la vie comme dans un banquet. Quand un plat arrive à toi, tends la main et sers-toi modérément. S’il passe loin de toi, n’essaye pas de le ramener à toi. Et s’il n’est pas encore arrivé à toi, ne laisse pas ton désir te submerger et attend patiemment qu’il arrive à toi. Agis ainsi avec tes enfants, avec ta femme, avec les honneurs, avec la richesse, et tu seras un jour digne d’être le convive des Dieux. Va plus loin et refuse ce qu’on te tend, considère-le avec indifférence, et tu obtiendras une part du pouvoir des Dieux ainsi que leur compagnie. C’est ainsi que Diogène, Héraclite et leurs semblables sont aujourd’hui vénérés comme des Dieux.

But no one ever really dines alone, do they?” Toshio said. “Our thoughts share our meals with us. They keep us company whether we invite them to or not and are especially noisy when they are the only ones at our table. They chatter about all the things we cannot say aloud. In your case, I would guess that they like to reminisce about a time when you were not the woman you are today, a time, perhaps, when you liked to share your table at the ramen restaurant with someone else.

Saimin was inspired by Japanese ramen, Chinese mein, and Filipino pancit, and developed during Hawaiʻi's plantation era. After a hard day's work, sugarcane and pineapple plantation laborers returned to their homes to prepare dinner. To save money, each family would bring an ingredient they could spare. They would throw all the ingredients into a pot and share the dish. Saimin is composed of ingredients taken from laborers of the early 1900's: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Hawaiian and Portuguese. During these communal meals, families and friends gathered to talk and share. Today, saimin is a local favorite in Hawaiʻi.

I showed a photo of a bowl of ramen I had taken earlier in the day and asked what she thought of that as a profile picture. She just shook her head. OH, I GUESS I CAN’T HOLD A CANDLE TO THAT STREET SIGN DUDE, HUH?

Il y a deux manières de vaincre le monde, une vraie et une fausse. La vraie comprend la nature du monde et surmonte celui-ci au-delà de ses limites ; la fausse ne comprend rien au monde et cherche à le surmonter au sein de ses limites. La vraie manière cherche ce qui est sec sur la plage, en dehors de la mer ; la manière erronée cherche ce qui est sec dans la mer même, en tentant de la vider. Cette manière-ci est la foi ordinaire de ce monde, celle-là la certitude spirituelle élevée. Mais le fait que toute une partie de l'humanité reconnaisse cette manière erronée de surmonter le monde comme le principe de toutes les doctrines et de toutes les institutions - et en somme de toute activité et de toute aspiration - ne peut être possible qu'à notre époque, qui approche toujours plus inexorablement de sa fin. La manière correcte est unitive, spirituelle, ramenant dans l'Intérieur et opérant l'harmonie ; la manière fausse est multiplicatrice, orientée vers la nature grossière, entraînant vers l'extérieur et opérant la contradiction. La manière correcte domine la société humaine en fonction de ce qui la transcende, de l’Éternel, qui est son ultime destination ; la manière fausse trompe la société sous le prétexte de son bien-être le plus extérieur et le plus limité, comme si l'homme en tant que tel - et qui plus est dans sa partie la plus éphémère, le corps - avait sa raison suffisante en lui-même et pouvait être la mesure et le but de lui-même et de toutes choses.

He’d chased Vasquez for nine days now. Someone had warned the programmer just before Cooper got to the Boston walk-up, a brick rectangle where the only light had been a window onto an airshaft and the glowing red eyes of power indicators on computers and routers and surge protectors. The desk chair had been against the far wall as if someone had leaped out of it, and steam still rose from an abandoned bowl of ramen.

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