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My first kasha knish. I had it at a vintage knish place on 2nd Avenue close to Landmark's Sunshine Theater in Lower East Manhattan. The photos on its wall showed Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen once frequented it too.
"Myths are powerful, as they distort and conceal in their extreme simplifications and falsifications of reality. By ignoring a great mass of information they identify essential order, purity, and blessed simplicity. Myths can be elevating to a nation, enabling people to cohere, to energize, and to compel themselves to defy rational limits. Yet, myths can can be disastrous, causing a nation to lose touch with reality and with its shared humanity with others. Japan's myth of monoethnicity has both these powers, constructive and destructive." -Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
