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[oyceter]

1. I think I am renaming the rats so that the brown rat is Ed-rat and the white hooded one is Al-rat. They're both still very shy, but the brown one runs around and sniffs at everything and jumps away and jumps back again and runs around more when the white one likes snoozing under the blankets until dragged out by his brother or me. They are still so adorable!



2. I have finally started taking advantage of academic library access! JSTOR! BAS! Access to back issues of Publisher's Weekly! I already have several books out on ILL so I can try and catch up with manga scholarship, particularly anything that focuses on gender.



3. Any book recs for books by POC about food? Fictional or non-fictional is fine, have already read Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Serve the People, and plan on reading Madhur Jaffrey and David Masumoto.



4. East Bay people! Tell me about your favorite restaurants!

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[oursin.livejournal.com]

Would Claudia Roden count?
Claudia Roden was born to a cosmopolitan Jewish family in Cairo, where she grew up eating – and questioning the origin of – food from all over the Middle East.
Has written on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food.

[oyceter]

I have no idea, but I will definitely look that up... that sounds great.