At a poker table, I perused cards inscribed with bits of Kampradiana: the time someone tried to sell the founder an intercom system, and the founder yelled to a co-worker, "We already have one!"; the time the founder was in Romania, looking at a freezer case full of ducks, and wondered, What do they do with all the feathers?
The restaurant sits next to the Chena River,* which runs brown and lazy beside us, full of ducks and gulls.
But when the containers in question were full of rubber ducks, and when those ducks are still, endlessly and unsinkably, wandering the watery ways of the world and washing up on beaches thousands of miles from the spill, the story became irresistible.
"Fans have the opportunity to see a full season of Ducks hockey starting at just $12 per game". Single game prices will be announced later.
It's a shame that his last appearances were in a team full of lame ducks.
So fast that I nearly annihilate a squirrel (the forest is full of creatures: ducks, swans, adders) and miss the signpost for my villa.
In Milwaukee, the nonprofit Growing Power operates a one-acre farm crammed with plastic greenhouses, compost piles, do-it-yourself contraptions, tilapia tanks and pens full of hens, ducks and goats — and grossed over $220,000 last year from the sale of lettuces, winter greens, sprouts and fish to local restaurants and consumers.
He stores and displays these "treasures" such as a birdcage full of rubber ducks, a Rubik's Cube, Zippo lighters, disposable cups filled with plastic cutlery and a golden trophy at his home where he examines and categorizes his finds while watching video cassettes of musicals via an iPod viewed through a large Fresnel lens.
Maybe it's a whole city full of goddam duck-worshippers — don't ask me.
Later, describing the proper method for dunking grilled ciabatta into a cast-iron skillet full of poached duck egg and fonduta, he advised, "Get crazy, no one's watching!" Unfortunately, his enthusiasm seemed a bit misplaced.
A relative of Wu's who grew up in Shanghai before the Cultural Revolution remembered fondly a dish from his childhood — smoked black Chinese dates stuffed with red-bean paste, then egg-washed and deep fried — so Wu reimagined it, piping Medjools full of shredded duck-leg confit and dipping them in a buttermilk batter.
