"Once, in the supermarket, I bought a little can that had a Japanese woman painted on the side. Later, at home, I opened the can and saw inside it a piece of tuna fish. The woman seemed to have changed into a piece of fish during her long voyage. This surprise came on a Sunday: I had decided not to read any writing on Sundays. Instead I observed the people I saw on the street as though they were isolated letters. Sometimes two people sat down next to each other in the cafe, and thus, briefly, formed a word. Then they separated, in order to go off and form other words." -- from Yoko Tawada's Where Europe Begins (trans. Susan Bernofsky and Yumi Selden)

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Scarlet Barley, Masala Baked Tofu, Herb Caulipots
(from Appetite for Reduction cookbook)
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Sautéed Red Cabbage
(from online Rachael Ray recipe)