Me: “I’d like something spicy with beef.”
Waiter: “How about… (pause) Spicy Beef?”
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She’s the new Queen on the block.
That’s Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan while on a friendship visit to Japan today.
I wonder what Jetsun will eat.
Jun Sato
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The fabulous China Land restaurant at 28 Tennessee Avenue in Atlantic City. Nice floor! And below as it appears today, the New Malaka restaurant.
Try the Kari Mee, Char Kway Teow, Roti Canai, and tell ‘em Chexy sent ya.
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The Hat… a very glamorous pastrami restaurant in lovely Pasadena, Calif.
Nice tile.
photo by Austin
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Another gem from Punchy Players… this time Judy and Liza go shopping. And look who’s working the checkout line.
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Betty Deuce wore this delicious lime suit to an event in Brisbane along with one of her Mad Hatter toppers, and a slice of Key Lime pie.
One is strictly upper crust.
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The oddly ornate Zucca’s on West 49th Street, offering an Italian smorgasbord.
Proprietor Louis Zucca’s daughter Rita was better known as one of the “Axis Sallys,” who allegedly broadcast Axis propaganda out of Italy, signing on to each show with “Hello, suckers!”
She probably stole that bit from nightclub owner Tex Guinan.
Mildred Gillars, another “Axis Sally” (for Nazi Germany), spent 12 years in prison.
Rita’s cousin says it’s not true, that all Rita did was sing American songs on the government run RAI radio out of Rome, which picked up Mildred’s propaganda transmissions out of Berlin and relayed them to the front.
Here’s what Zucca’s looks like today… Oceana, part of a massive skyscraper.
The interior of Oceana…
The Italian Badoglio government tried Rita for collaboration, on the basis of her employment with RAI during the war. She had renounced her American citizenship, so Hoover didn’t prosecute her for treason.
Lovely but cross-eyed Rita was sentenced to 4 and a half years and released after nine months. She was portrayed by Alexandia Maria Lara in the Spike Lee movie, “Miracle at St. Anna.”
Mildred Gillars later became a music teacher in Columbus, Ohio.
At Oceana, try the Manhattan Clam Chowder.
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This was the scene in Thailand yesterday as flooding wreaked havoc in downtown Ayutthaya. Areas of Thailand are experiencing the worst flooding in nearly 50 years.
On Sunday, a friend asked me if I wanted to go for Thai food. I said, “No, I had Thai food last night.” He said, “What do you think 60 million Thais eat every day?”
Getty
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I prepared this snack for my imaginary daughter Amy’s lunch.
Learn how here.
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