While many cultures, like the Chinese or the French, show off their most extraordinary food in restaurants, Brazilians save the most authentic, intensely seasoned dishes for home.
They ordered what he had ordered: slimy bamboo salads, fermented fish, and intensely spicy dishes — authentic regional Thai food that the owners, Bill and Saipin Chutima, were worried the customers would send back.
It is an intensely personal book: any authentic collection of recipes is in part autobiography; and in my case, many of these recipes were a kind of memorial to the food cooked by my mother, Vanessa, and sister, Thomasina.
According to Bill Nichols, it "achieves the force of authentic art, profoundly disturbing, intensely personal, yet at the same time far more than personal".
But in interviews, the scholars who have pored over the Tiananmen documents and helped translate and edit them -- and who have intensely questioned the Chinese man who handed them over -- have expressed the firm conviction that the material is authentic.
They ordered what he had ordered: slimy bamboo salads, fermented fish, and intensely spicy dishes authentic regional Thai food that the owners, Bill and Saipin Chutima, were worried the customers would send back.
Authentic, authentic, authentic.
Remember: authentic, authentic, authentic.
