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Lunch Today: Good Vegan Cuisine at Wild Ginger
Lunchtime adventures from the Serious Eats editors.
I've made my stance on faux meat pretty clear in the past (hint: I don't like it) and I've never been to a pan-Asian restaurant I've liked. This made my choice of Wild Ginger, a vegan, pro-faux restaurant serving such enticing-sounding dishes as General Tsao's Soy Protein and Tofu Teriyaki Sizzling Platter a little suspect. What was I thinking?
Luckily, turns out that amidst all that nonsense, there are some tasty lunch options. The salad section is a good place to start. The Watercress Salad ($8.50) is a gigantic bowl of fresh watercress (they describe her as the "mineral-rich queen of greens") with plenty of avocado, sprouts, and hair-thin strands of shaved beets served with a gingery sesame dressing. I wished they'd have tossed the salad with the dressing, but glancing around the room, it seemed like most of the clientele were dressing-on-the-side types.
Crispy Tofu Skin Wraps ($6.50) are like extra-crunchy versions of spring rolls, stuffed with shiitakes, bamboo shoots, and other shredded vegetables. The sauce—a sweet, ketchup-y concoction with a hint of spice—I could take or leave.
The best dish we tried was the Moo-Shu Vegetable ($12), a fine take on the Northern Chinese dish that's been a staple of Manhattan Chinese-American restaurants since the late 60's. Their version eschews the traditional pork and eggs in place of cabbage, shiitake mushroom, bamboo shoot, carrots, and snow peas. It's stir-fried well, with each vegetable retaining their crunch while acquiring a nice smoky wok hei. Even the pancakes are great—super thin, stretchy, and moist—a step up from the average pancakes you get at even some of the better non-vegan Chinese restaurants in the area.
It's $12 for the dish, but we found one order to be ample enough for two, with a little left over for a late afternoon snack.
If there's on great thing to be said about Wild Ginger, it's the atmosphere. Unlike your typical rushed Chinatown lunch with waitstaff whose only job seems to be to get you out of your seat as soon as possible, the service at Wild Ginger was relaxed, quiet, and gentle.* It's a welcome break that even a meat eater could enjoy.
*Cue "vegans are docile because they need more protein" joke here.
Wild Ginger
380 Broome Street, New York, NY 10013-3799 (between Mott and Mulberry; map)
Special Note: Their website is one of the worst I've ever seen in terms of slow-loading, unnecessarily flash-ified nonsense. Restaurant owners, please take note: STOP WITH THE STUPID FLASH-HEAVY WEBSITES. Thank you.
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Blues Traveler (Rescheduled from 4/21)
Oct 19, 2020 – 8:00 PM
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Blues Traveler is an American jam band from Princeton, New Jersey. Currently, the group is led by harmonica virtuoso John Popper (vocals, harmonica) along with Chan Kinchla (guitar), Brendan Hill (b. March 27, 1970, in London, England, UK) (drums), Tad Kinchla (b. February 21, 1973, in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.) (bass) and Ben Wilson (b. November 17, 1967, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) (keyboards). Tad Kinchla and Ben Wilson joined the band following the death of original bassist Bobby Sheehan in 1999 of a drug overdose in New Orleans. While Blues Traveler is best known among fans for their improvisational live shows, the general public is most familiar with the group from their fourth studio album Four. Released in 1994, the two singles "Run-Around" and "Hook" gained mainstream radio popularity.
Blues Traveler's subsequent releases were not as successful as the quintuple platinum sales of Four, though the band has maintained a loyal fanbase from the beginning of their career. Their albums with A&M in the later 1990s include Straight on Till Morning and Bridge. The group signed with Sanctuary Records and released Truth Be Told on August 5, 2003. Their latest album, ¡Bastardos!, was released on September 13, 2005.
Sheehan's untimely death in 1999 and Popper's struggle with obesity put a damper on the group's success, and A&M dropped the band after low sales of their 2001 album Bridge. However, the band took this transition period as an opportunity to start in new directions musically. Popper, who at one point weighed in at a dangerous 420 pounds, had gastric bypass surgery in 2003 and is no longer obese.

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Perimeter Institute (PI) and the Center for Theoretical Cosmology (CTC) at Cambridge University have signed an agreement that will encourage collaborative research at the two institutions. The agreement provides for faculty members and postdoctoral fellows to conduct regular scientific exchange visits.
Perimeter's Director Neil Turok expects that the relationship will yield dividends on both sides of the Atlantic. "The two institutions are very complementary. Cambridge is a great university with a tradition dating back to Isaac Newton, and 20th century discoveries such as Martin Ryle's evidence for the hot Big Bang and Fred Hoyle's calculations of the abundances of the elements, Stephen Hawking's proof of the cosmological singularity theorems, Martin Rees's work in modern cosmology and much more. Perimeter, in contrast, is a young institution that is growing rapidly and attracting experts from all over the world. PI's researchers will benefit from Cambridge's experience and broad expertise; Cambridge researchers will benefit from PI's cutting-edge atmosphere and dynamism. Each offers benefits to the other."
PI has over 40 postdoctoral fellows, and several each year will be able to visit Cambridge for periods of up to three months. To participate, interested postdoctoral researchers at PI or Cambridge must have a faculty host at the partner institution, and submit a short application explaining how the visit will advance their research. Faculty members can likewise propose research visits of up to two months, hosted by a faculty member at the partner institution. Applications will be considered by a joint committee composed of faculty members from PI and Cambridge.
The partnership will enhance the PI-Cambridge connection. Perimeter's Director Neil Turok was Chair of Mathematical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at Cambridge prior to joining PI, and PI Distinguished Research Chair Stephen Hawking intends to spend extended research visits at PI each year. PI is actively building partnerships with leading physics institutes around the world, and similar agreements are expected in the months to come.


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SALT LAKE CITY, March 26 (UPI) -- Randy Foye and Gordon Hayward combined for 32 points Monday, propelling the Utah Jazz to a 107-91 victory over Philadelphia.
Foye struck for 17 points and Hayward added 15 as the Jazz got back on the winning track following four straight losses.
Derrick Favors (13 points, nine rebounds), Al Jefferson, Enes Kanter, Alec Burks (12 points apiece) and Paul Millsap (11) also reached double figures for Utah.
The 76ers got 19 points off the bench from Dorell Wright but still fell to 1-3 on a four-game western road trip.
Arnett Moultrie and Spencer Hawes each added 14 points in the loss.


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Connecticut Department of Banking to offer mortgage counseling
WATERBURY -- The state of Connecticut is offering its latest event for struggling homeowners who need help with loan modifications, foreclosure prevention and other issues with their lenders.
This is the fourth free forum sponsored by the Department of Banking together with the governor and attorney general's office. It will be held Wednesday at the Conference Center at CoCo Key in Waterbury, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Representatives from various mortgage lenders and loan servicing companies are scheduled attend. They include officials from Bank of America, CitiMortgage, Fannie Mae, GMAC Mortgage and others.
Housing counseling agencies, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, Judicial Branch mediation and other state and nonprofit agencies will be on hand as well.
Information about participating banks and the documents homeowners must bring can be found at www.ct.gov/dob/homeowner.


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Poison in Our Libraries
- Steve Crampton AgapePress
- 2006 20 Jun
Laurie Taylor is the mother of two school-age children. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Like most parents, she cares about her kids' education. So, when she discovered the school library had a sexually explicit book, "It's Perfectly Normal," aimed at elementary age students, she did what any concerned parent would do: she went to the administration and asked that it be removed, along with two other books with similar themes.
At first, school system leaders seemed to agree with Taylor, and placed the books in a "parent library" section with other books geared more to parents than to children. But when Taylor found dozens more books with sexually explicit content, and asked that they not be made available to students without parental approval, the school reneged. It overturned its earlier decision and voted to leave all of the books on the shelves with unrestricted access by the students.
Some of the books include graphic descriptions of incest, homosexuality, masturbation, bestiality, and child molestation. For instance, "Push" is the story of a young girl who is pregnant with her father's child. The local newspaper, the Northwest Arkansas Times, which opposed the effort to limit access to the book, admitted that it contained "materials that are patently offensive."
Another book is advertised as being "the most controversial young adult novel ever," and describes an adolescent boy's love affair with a teacher, and two teens who become addicted to heroin. Oh, and by the way, the book won an award as "an outstanding book for children."
Yet another book proudly displayed on the Fayetteville library shelves was once featured in Playboy magazine. Its vile and sexually explicit content is interspersed with dialogue such as this: "Just keep asking yourself: 'What would Jesus not do?'"
Once other parents learned what these books contained, many joined with Taylor in asking the school to take action. The public outcry was great. A parents' rights group was formed, "Parents Protecting the Minds of Children," with dozens of parents joining the cause. The local paper wrote that this issue generated more letters to the editor than any issue in recent history. The story of the battle of the books became the paper's story of the year for 2005.
But Fayetteville is a college town, and liberals turned out in droves to cry "censorship" and shout down Laurie Taylor's courageous efforts to protect the children.
In truth, of course, Taylor never asked that the books be banned altogether, even though that might have been appropriate under the circumstances. All Taylor and the other parents asked for was that the books be placed in a restricted access section, thereby allowing parents to exercise their God-given (and constitutionally protected) rights to oversee the moral upbringing of their children.
Arkansas, like almost every state in America, has laws protecting against the distribution of material harmful to minors. However, also like many states, the Arkansas statutes define "harmful to minors" as material that, taken as a whole, "lacks serious literary, scientific, medical, artistic, or political value for minors." Some of the books to which the Fayetteville parents object have received awards, making it more difficult to demonstrate that they lack serious literary or artistic value.
Moreover, Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe has said that any determination as to whether these books violate the harmful to minors law must be left "for a court or properly instructed jury."
The Fayetteville librarians, in accordance with the principles of the American Library Association, testified that they believed in "intellectual freedom" for all students. This sounds very noble on the surface, but what it means in practice is that the librarians do everything possible to obscure the reading habits of students – who are required by law to attend school – from any attempt by parents to learn what their children are reading. This is done by virtue of a computerized system for tracking books in circulation that automatically erases all data concerning who checked out what books immediately upon the books being returned to the library. Unless a parent actually finds her child reading an objectionable book, that parent has no way of discovering what the child has been reading.
Not Only in Arkansas
Similar battles are erupting elsewhere in the U.S. In Maine, for example, Orono High School has reaffirmed its commitment to allow the use of the sexually explicit book, "Girl Interrupted," as part of the ninth-grade English curriculum.
The novel, written by Susanna Kaysen, is not fit reading for high school students, argued many parents and local residents. "It's a book about an 18-year-old who ends up in a mental asylum and has a number of conversations with mentally disturbed people – conversations of the most graphic sort, especially sexually," said Michael Heath, head of the Christian Civic League of Maine. "The f-word [appears] 30 times on one page, and this is being given to freshmen in high school as literature. It's absolutely horrifying."
In Overland Park, Kansas, parents are organizing to protest the Blue Valley School District's inclusion in its curriculum of numerous books containing explicit material, according to WorldNetDaily. One parent, Janet Harmon, objected to a book her freshman son was reading, which contained "references to oral sex and homosexuality," she said.
The AFA Center for Law & Policy has agreed to represent Taylor and other Fayetteville parents in a federal lawsuit seeking to protect their constitutional rights to oversee the education of their children.
But it won't be easy. A federal judge in Fayettteville has recently ruled in a similar case that restricting access of library books only to students who have obtained parental permission infringes upon the First Amendment rights of the students.
This adverse ruling means that in all likelihood, in order to prevail in this matter, the case will have to be taken all the way to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – and perhaps to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Websites Provide Help for Parents Dealing with School Libraries
A number of helpful websites have been established for parents and other adults who are concerned about the content of books in their children's school libraries. A few are listed here to help parents get started, but there are a growing number of websites with valuable information. Many of them contain lists of commonly used books and samples of objectionable content, but also ideas for further action if these books are found, and links to other websites. However, visitors to these sites should be cautious, since the content of these books is extremely offensive.
Citizens for Literary Standards in Schools (Overland Park, Kansas)
Parents Against Bad Books in Schools (Fairfax, Virginia)
What should you do if you find that your school library or your child's reading requirements have begun to include books with explicit content? Parents Against Bad Books in School has some helpful options, including the following questions that a parent can ask a principal or school administrator:
What are the course/library objectives?
Were any alternative books available and/or considered to achieve the course/library objectives? If so, what were they?
What sources were consulted in identifying potential alternative books to achieve the course/library objectives?
If other books were available and/or considered, why was this book selected and all other books rejected?
If less controversial books were considered and rejected, explain why.
What is the name and position of the individual who approved the book for school system use?
Steve Crampton is chief counsel of the AFA Center for Law and Policy.
Parents Protecting the Minds of Children
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