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Will your friend allow curry powder on her raw foods?"
"Not allowed, my dear," said Nat Morrill. "Curry powder is already a mixture, thus impure. In any case, she does not allow one to sprinkle something on top of something else."
"This is worse than kashruth," Leah said. "What about sushi?"
"Not allowed. It's raw, but still, it's a combination, because of the rice, the seaweed."
"Sashimi?"
"Fine. But no joining, no marriage of the fish with soy sauce or pickled ginger, no green shiso leaf.
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― The Garden Party: A Novel
― The Garden Party: A Novel
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On the tray were two plates of a yellowish curry.
"Today's menu is shirobanba. Monday is shirobanba day."
"Curry always perks me up."
Minami nodded.
"What do you mean by shirobanba?" Otoha asked.
"You don't know?" Kinoshita asked. "You haven't read it? It's from Yasushi Inoue's novel Shirobanba. It's a re-creation of the curry an old woman in the story cooks. Shirobanba, by the way, are the so-called snow bugs, teeny tiny insects that have a white puff on their wings that looks like cotton. They
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― Dinner at the Night Library
― Dinner at the Night Library
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