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American Breakfast in Japan
What makes a breakfast “American?” I considered this question after ordering an “American Breakfast” at a restaurant at Narita Airport. If the first meal of the day had an elementary mythological form the meal served to me was a Levi-Straussian ideal. It was an hr-breakfast—a meal reduced through the necessity of rough translation to its barest essential “American” form. Its bland color pallet, processed form and simple textures and flavors spoke to its role as simple morning fuel. Its […]
Categories: Food • Tags: American, American Breakfast, breakfast, food, Japan, Narita Airport
Air France: Real Simple
In the summer of 2012 I wrote a short post about a breakfast that I was served on a United Airlines flight back from China—how the meal’s plastic beauty fascinated me and how intrigued I was about the mix of exotic processed proteins that had been used to create it. For me, the inflight fakery evoked comparisons to meals served in dystopic science fiction futures. Yesterday while on an Air France flight from Casablanca to Paris, however, I was served […]
Categories: Care, Food, Random Reflections • Tags: Air France, airplane food, breakfast, cheese, croissant, faux food, inflight meals, meal, real meal, United Airlines
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