Pho

On these rainy days there is something comforting about a big bowl of soup or pho, vietnamese broth that you add bean spouts, mint, other herbs and sometimes chicken, pork or beef.

It took me a while to realize that restaurants called pho never served anything else. My favorite lemon grass chicken had to come from another source. I live in a town that had a large Latin and Vietnamese population.

Their markets are very different.

We have out meat sealed in plastic. No smell everything sanitized....

Their fish is on ice and the guy plucks it or swimming out of the tank hits it in the head, guts it and cleans it. No cost.

I checked out some books today: A bird's-eye view of Jewish history, Against Silence: the voice and vision of Ellie Wiesel and Ancient Judiasm. (that one may be beyond me)

Maybe I'll learn something.