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Array In fact, from the framed write ups on the wall said it was the single most extensive Mediterranean menu in HCMC.For appetizers there is a choice of mezze and dips that you can enjoy with warm pita bread, from which we wanted to have some hummus but we elected for a warm minestrone soup and the baked goats cheese tart. My goatâs cheese tart kept me silent for most part of the dinner because I was too busy eating and enjoying the creamy warm slighty pungent cheese against the crispy tart shell and the slightly sourish sun dried tomatoes.
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We sheltered from the weather in a tofu restaurant in Akasaka*.It may seem odd to have a restaurant dedicated to just tofu, but this is not uncommon in Japan. This isn’t the best start as we had already eaten the bowl by the time I got the camera out.- Tofu on a skewer (I don’t know what it is called). Fried, startch-dusted tofu with sauce of heated dashi, soy, mirin with starch. Simple dashi stock, cubed tofu (enormous amounts), miso paste and chopped green onion.Tofu is another one of those interesting by-products of the ubiquitous soy (soy milk, edamame and soya sauce being some of the others). The only bad thing about tofu is tofu burgers, but that’s a debate for another day.Interesting piece of trivia is that legend has it that tofu was discovered by Lord Liu An (grandson of the founding Han emperor) in his search for immorality.
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Because for writers, and indeed publishers, the long tail represents opportunity. This is the ‘long tail’ (aka heavy tail, power-law tail, or Pareto tail). and there are also a large number of individual titles (approaching 200,000 a year in the US) which sell in small numbers, perhaps a few hundred copies each.One man who has given much thought to the long tail is Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author-to-be of a book on the long-tail phenomenon. (Thanks to Publishers Lunch for the link.)In his post of 4 July, Chris has a piece about the effect of filters on the long tail. For instance, suppose someone has read every book on breeding budgerigars which has been published in the last forty years. What’s the point?The point, as far as books in general are concerned, and particularly where novels are concerned, is that the long tail offers opportunity.True, it is still hard as hell to get a novel published by a top publisher. And the search engines will direct other filters to it, even if you don’t.In other words, even obscure books on obscure subjects can now be published with a reasonable expectation that, if you do a little work, the thing will become known in the niches where those who might be interested are lurking.I submit that this phenomenon changes everything. This alters the whole balance of power in publishing and it alters the entire economics of the book industry.The long tail, in short, is a phenomenon which offers opportunity to writers, whether they publish their output themselves or work through established firms.And it offers opportunity to publishers. There is a school of thought which holds that the long tail is actually worth more to output producers than is the short head. But, properly handled, the long tail provides modest returns for much less investment, and can go on providing those returns for years on end, as more and more filters find it and recommend it.
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Thirdly - and this is how we’ll always remember her - she made a guest appearance in one of Mark E Smith’s most bemusing couplets, from Telephone Thing: How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you/ Gretchen Franklin/ Nosey matron thing To this day, we’ve never quite worked out what he meant.
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Array In fact, from the framed write ups on the wall said it was the single most extensive Mediterranean menu in HCMC.For appetizers there is a choice of mezze and dips that you can enjoy with warm pita bread, from which we wanted to have some hummus but we elected for a warm minestrone soup and the baked goats cheese tart. My goatâs cheese tart kept me silent for most part of the dinner because I was too busy eating and enjoying the creamy warm slighty pungent cheese against the crispy tart shell and the slightly sourish sun dried tomatoes.
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We sheltered from the weather in a tofu restaurant in Akasaka*.It may seem odd to have a restaurant dedicated to just tofu, but this is not uncommon in Japan. This isn’t the best start as we had already eaten the bowl by the time I got the camera out.- Tofu on a skewer (I don’t know what it is called). Fried, startch-dusted tofu with sauce of heated dashi, soy, mirin with starch. Simple dashi stock, cubed tofu (enormous amounts), miso paste and chopped green onion.Tofu is another one of those interesting by-products of the ubiquitous soy (soy milk, edamame and soya sauce being some of the others). The only bad thing about tofu is tofu burgers, but that’s a debate for another day.Interesting piece of trivia is that legend has it that tofu was discovered by Lord Liu An (grandson of the founding Han emperor) in his search for immorality.
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Because for writers, and indeed publishers, the long tail represents opportunity. This is the ‘long tail’ (aka heavy tail, power-law tail, or Pareto tail). and there are also a large number of individual titles (approaching 200,000 a year in the US) which sell in small numbers, perhaps a few hundred copies each.One man who has given much thought to the long tail is Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired and author-to-be of a book on the long-tail phenomenon. (Thanks to Publishers Lunch for the link.)In his post of 4 July, Chris has a piece about the effect of filters on the long tail. For instance, suppose someone has read every book on breeding budgerigars which has been published in the last forty years. What’s the point?The point, as far as books in general are concerned, and particularly where novels are concerned, is that the long tail offers opportunity.True, it is still hard as hell to get a novel published by a top publisher. And the search engines will direct other filters to it, even if you don’t.In other words, even obscure books on obscure subjects can now be published with a reasonable expectation that, if you do a little work, the thing will become known in the niches where those who might be interested are lurking.I submit that this phenomenon changes everything. This alters the whole balance of power in publishing and it alters the entire economics of the book industry.The long tail, in short, is a phenomenon which offers opportunity to writers, whether they publish their output themselves or work through established firms.And it offers opportunity to publishers. There is a school of thought which holds that the long tail is actually worth more to output producers than is the short head. But, properly handled, the long tail provides modest returns for much less investment, and can go on providing those returns for years on end, as more and more filters find it and recommend it.
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Thirdly - and this is how we’ll always remember her - she made a guest appearance in one of Mark E Smith’s most bemusing couplets, from Telephone Thing: How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you/ Gretchen Franklin/ Nosey matron thing To this day, we’ve never quite worked out what he meant.
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