My wife, who is half Korean, half Japanese, remembers dried squid from her childhood, but we never got around to learning how to make it. We did make kim chee once, and kosher dills, very similar process, often. You can buy good kim chee, but you can’t get good Kosher dills anywhere, now that the Carnegie Deil is gone.

We can get a few kinds of Smørrebrød her in the still very Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard in Seattle. But nothing like the student union at the University of Lund, where I was for a year in 1970. Steak tartar, various pickled and smoked fish, about 25 different kinds. Smørrebrød means “butter bread” BTW.

I’ll describe my own struggle with the oppression of our sex negative culture below. But first I’ll answer the question about what kind of sex ed I wish I, and everyone would have. We should have truthful, compassionate, unprejudiced, education. We should be given the information to create sex/love/relationship lives…

In the Pacific Northwest, Matsutake Gohan is an emotion laden comfort food for those who know about it. That select group is the Japanese community and their very closest friends. Matsutake mushrooms are widely distributed in the temperate regions of Asia, North America and Europe. Here in the Northwest, we think ours…

Are there any molds that grow on groceries that are dangerous to humans? The blue in blue cheese is a mold. Kim Chi, yogurt, cheeses, etc are full of the bacteria that ferment them. Yeast is sort of a one celled mold. My perspective is if it doesn’t ruin the taste, forget about it.

Claire, it is possible that you don’t taste Bay Laurel because of your genetic tasting spectrum. But many people, myself included, find it very flavorful and aromatic. We live in a condo, but have a deck, and allocate a significant part of its small space to a Bay Laurel bush. Although I understand Bay Laurel oil is…

Dreams are good for you, according to current science:

I love chicken feet, but run across friends who don’t. So I tell them the trick to eating chicken feet is to think about where they are going, not where they have been.

The anti-trafficking movement is a vicious fraud, no different than the anti-drug hysteria or any of the other recent faile prohibitions against being gay, alcohol, mixed race marriage, etc. As in all these prohibitionist frauds, virtually all the evils are generated from the prohibition itself, not what is being…

A few days ago slid into one of our computers unbidden and I thought, WTF, I’ll take a look. It changed the video settings so that the task bar was too far off the screen to use and it deleted the desktop from Win 8.1. After 20 minutes I figured out what video adjustments to make and another 20 got the old desktop…

Very funny, but it could just as easily been about money or time as sex. And Rock is just echoing the standard narrative. There are millions of us who have commitment with one or more people, new pussy and/or dick from time to time, and are not cheating because we all know about it and are happy doing it. We always…

The Bustle article is full of pseudo science which postulates a false dichotomy between cheating and monogamy. There are a number of human societies which have institutionalized consensual, multiple, sexual relationships including the Mosuo of China and the Canela of the Amazon. In the US there are millions of people…

I found a very nice pronunciation site, Forvo, http://forvo.com/. It has 900,000 words and pronunciations by speakers from different nationalities. The Danish pronunciation of Ikea is what I would have thought having lived in Sweden for a year. But the German and English pronunciations are different.

Sure, read Esther Perels. But also read the ethical slut. My life partner and I met when we entered college, 1961. We are now 72. The last time we made love was 7 hours ago. A lover I’ve been with for 20 years is coming over in 4 hours. My life partner and I got to the place you find yourself in around 1965, spent two…