Daily Archives: 20 June 2004
Spicy SPAM Balls Wins Guam Cook-off
Guam’s Pacific Daily News reports: Ben Torres modified a local favorite dish to win the fourth annual SPAM Cook-off Islandstyle last weekend. The 53-year-old Barrigada resident’s “Spicy SPAM Balls,” which is made up of ingredients used in fried rice, rolled … Continue reading
Filed under Micronesia, U.S.
Political Shibai or Kabuki?
The Japanese word shibai ‘performance, drama’, as in Okinawa shibai or Ikari ningyo shibai ‘Ikari puppet theatre’, now seems well established in at least one regional dialect of English as a way to denote an empty political performance. It has … Continue reading
Filed under Hawai'i
