Curiosity Americana
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Why I Love Airports: A Comic
In airports, I have never been a resident alien; I am a traveler, just like everyone else.
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How Did Chop Suey Become a Staple of Chinese American Cuisine?
The authenticity of chop suey was always the authenticity of survival, of adaptation. And so, like generations of Chinese Americans, chop suey stayed.
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Get Your Kicks on Route 66: A Comic
I’ll drive with that tender balance of guilt and curiosity and a lifetime of learning and unlearning, still looking for an America that was there, is there, and will be there.
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Stone Fruit Season: A Comic
Yes, I dared to eat a peach. And I had to live, so I could eat another.
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Of Mufflers and Men: A Comic
Adapted and reinvented and reborn—not venerated, but persistent, present, iconic. Is this such a bad fate?