Sunday, August 8, 2010

On Lunchtime Peculiarities

Everyday, my elegant counterpart, Emmanuella, pulls out her elaborate insulated lunch caddy and removes aromatic containers of stew and rice.  She happily slurps up her goat stew, a delicious-smelling concoction full of goat parts that I struggle to identify but always contain thick tubes and something that looks like a soft palate.  At the end of the meal, Emma daintily digs for marrow in the long bones with a fork, then puts everything neatly back in her lunch caddy.

Yesterday, with great curiosity, she asked me something about my lunchtime habits that had perplexed her for a while: how could I not eat rice with my lunch?

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