Some Very Nice Meals I Have Had Lately
Just some good tasty things I’ve eaten!
There’s so much good food in Chicago! We took Niles’s brother and sister-in-law to Bonchon in Chinatown and Beautiful Rind in Logan Square while they were visiting from Tokyo. Liz Kozik drove me to Seafood City after CAKE Chicago for some tasty food court goodness. Niles and I had a lovely dinner at Club Lucky in Wicker Park over the 4th of July weekend. And this past Friday night, I made some delicious Vietnamese bún cold noodle salads with some homemade nước chấm, and some of the longanisa sausages that I bought at Seafood City. I should draw up a recipe for the cold noodle salad – they’re a perfect dinner for hot summer evenings.
Shameless self-promotion:
I ordered a bunch of books to have for CAKE last month, and the publisher was out of Let’s Make Dumplings! I came close to running out of it at CAKE, but thankfully did not. The box of Dumplings books finally arrived a few days ago; too late for CAKE, but I am restocked at home at least. You can always buy any of the Let’s Make books from me personally, and I sign and doodle in every copy I ship out.
How’s the book going, Sarah:
Coloring is thankfully going so much faster than I anticipated. I managed to color 30 whole pages last week! I have 92/192 pages finished right now. Almost halfway done already!
What I’m into lately:
I have been blasting through audiobooks while working on the colors for this book. Most recently I finished Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud. It was kind of incredible: six stories that stand alone, each with their own distinct voice and vibe, but they all manage to tie together into an overarching infernal eldritch cosmology that left me feeling awed and profoundly unsettled. So so good.
Some day I might have to make a little comic about how my pretty happy little food drawings are fueled almost exclusively by my consumption of weird, dark horror fiction. (>_<)
What Toki’s into lately:
This little Tokyo Banana continues to insist upon being part of the creative process. No joke, probably 80% of my art is created with Toki nestled in one arm.
