I may not be keeping up with the news while traveling, but one subscription I was sure to keep was the Chicago Magazine’s weekly “Dish” newsletter. I may not need an email digest about shootings in West Virginia and bombings in Iraq, but don’t think I’m going to ignore the Chicago food scene.
Anyhow, the latest edition linked to a Slate article by Neal Pollack, who visited the Dodger Stadium All-You-Can-Eat Pavillion. And while I won’t spoil the end, I’ll say that it is worth reading to the end.
“Tonight,” I [Pollack] wrote in my notebook, “represents everything that’s wrong with America. Then again, this is one of the most multicultural experiences of my life. All branches of the human family are slowly poisoning themselves happily, together, communal. I’m privileged to be witnessing the mass suicide of a species.”
This post may not be about Asia (we are in Vietnam; visited Saigon, now beachside in Nah Trang), but it does remind me of a very good reason we are here.
Not that I’m completely igoring the fact that the Cubs are again starting ’slow’ and have too many players injured…
Interesting link. Makes me appreciate our bustling garden & fields all the more, as we are now eating the first lettuce & onions and watching many more things take hold. Certainly glad you two are enjoying real food over there and not what passes for it here.