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The Global Gourmet

June 2008

Easter Lunch

By Gabriella Ghermandi

A man who cannot resist something hot on his tongue will not be able to resist the spicy character of an Ethiopian woman.

Translated from Italian by Brenda Porster

From “Comfort”

By Ronald Giphart

In previous centuries practically everybody got a regular and considerable dose of mind expansion because practically everybody ate rye bread.

Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

Time Out for Blackberries

By Guillermo Saavedra

Illustrious tyranny of the peach:

Translated from Spanish by Michele McKay Aynesworth

Multilingual

Settling Accounts

By Paula Parisot

My father abandoned my mother a few months after I was born.

Translated from Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers

Rice

By Yuan Qiongqiong

Couldn’t sleep. She was lying on the bed, eyes closed, but she hadn’t the slightest sensation of sleepiness.

Translated from Chinese by Hsiang Hsu

From “Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded”

By Yusuf al-Shirbini

My people, why do I behold you of sweet rice with honey all unaware?

Translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies

The End of Amsterdam’s Hunger Winter

By Robert Menasse

“The ape brought us the food,” Father said and added, after a pause, “and a book.”

The Hunger Artist: Feasting and Fasting with Gogol

By Darra Goldstein

The details of Gogol’s subsequent demise bring us into the realm of his most phantasmagoric stories.

Everyone Has Her Own Small Treasure

By Liliana Heker

Through the crack, you could see the smiling face of a gray-haired woman.

Translated from Spanish by Sheena Sood