A week ago while reading ‘Norwegian Wood’, a novel by Haruki Murakami, I stumbled across a pertinent quote. The character of Midori in the novel is an eccentric university student from Tokyo, who also happens to be a terrific cook, of traditional Kansai (Kyoto-Osaka region) fare. She taught herself to cook on her own, from a book:
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12.06.2009
Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ and cooking
28.05.2009
I’m a little slow on the uptake…
but am really happy that Alice Munro has won the Man Booker prize. I have read and enjoyed several of her stories, and even studied a few of them in one of my Canadian Lit. classes in university. I can also recall my Grandmother saying she thinks that Munro is “just about the best writer there is”. That’s high praise.
I’m going to celebrate with some homemade chocolate pudding.
