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HESE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE smells: toasting bagel, freshly cut figs, the bergamot in good Earl Grey tea, a jar of whole soybeans slowly turning beneath a tropical sun.
“Xian chi zai tan,” or “Eat first, talk later,” had been my grandmother’s catch phrase, delivered sternly when business discussions threatened to upstage a meal at her dining table.
“When I first came home, I was irate. I thought I could have been a brilliant scholar at a top American university, and instead I was trapped in a classroom of students whose marks were too low to study anything but literature.”
over time, these obstacles became excuses.
