COMMENTS & IDEAS FROM YOU:
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In Ottawa recently showing slides and talking about Beyond the Great Wall, Naomi mentioned that we have not figured out Uighur flung noodles. (There's a whole essay about them in the book.) A guy named David, who was there, later emailed us after searching for more info on the noodles. He dug hard and found a guy named Luke who seems to be fantastically persistent. He's recently figured out how to make the Uighur flung noodles. Major immersion!!!! Even better, he's made videos to explain the technique. It's all at
http://ratingpending.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-make-hand-pulled-noodles_23.html
We hope to try them soon. Meantime, please write to us if you try them... And huge thanks to David!
mid-november 2008: You may be interested to see the profile of us by Jane Kramer the FOOD issue of the New Yorker, the issue dated November 24. We feel lucky to have had the chance to get to know her... a remarkable woman.
comments: Our friend Kaz wrote us a note after she visited the site soon after it went up. It was lovely to see her get it, grab the idea of immersion and run with it: i like the idea of your website being an idea about immersion, the whole act, in its many incarnations, of being taken in, brought through, soaked up by. drenched. how literally this happens in places and with food, which we take into our bodies and are then altered by, augmented by. kept alive, too.
And another good friend, Philly, gave us great encouragement when she wrote: I love the idea of passion being the driving force, and the meeting place model you're setting up.
Had an email a few days ago from a guy who asked us to blog-comment a little on how we feel about shooting digital now rather than slide film. It is an emotional as well as a practical question. We promise we'll get to it sometime!