Ishizu Maui restaurant recommendations

~Saimin:
Tasty Crust Restaurant
2770 Mill St, Wailuku
(808) 244-0845
Sunday 6AM–10PM
Monday 6am-3pm
Tue-Wed-Thur 6am-10pm
Fri & Sat 6am-11pm

~Plate Lunch:
Nagasako Okazu-Ya Del
Old Laihana Center/OLC
845 Wainee Street Lahaina
... At Old Lahaina Center right across from Foodland Supermarket, off of Hwy 30 either turn left on Papaulaua St. heading north, or turn right heading south, the landmark is the Chevron gas station. See the Mc Donald’s, turn left on Wainee St., (Why- nay) St. then turn right, you’ll see the store on the immediate left, and is central to down town Lahaina’s Front Street (808) 762-0985
Mon - Sun 5:30 AM - 4 PM

~Breakfast:
Sheik’s Restaurant
97 South Wakea St
Kahului
(808) 887-0121
5:30am-10 pm Sun-Thur
5:30-11pm Fri & Sat

OTHERS, NOT ISHIZU-RECOMMENDED

Da Kitchen Kahului
425 Koloa St., Suite 104 Kahului, HI 96732
Monday-Saturday : 11am-9pm (Sunday - Closed )

Da Kitchen Kihei
2439 South Kihei Rd. Kihei, HI 96753
11am-9pm Daily

Zippy’s
15 Ho'okele St, Kahului, HI 96732
Open 24 hours

Walmart
101 Pakaula St, Kahului, HI 96732
Open 6am to Midnight every day of week

Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird

Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird 

by Emelyn Rude, author

Hardcover, 272 pages

Published August 2nd 2016 by Pegasus Books (first published August 1st 2016)

From the domestication of the bird nearly ten thousand years ago to its current status as our go-to meat, the history of this seemingly commonplace bird is anything but ordinary.

How did chicken achieve the culinary ubiquity it enjoys today? It’s hard to imagine, but there was a point in history, not terribly long ago, that individual people each consumed less than ten pounds of chicken per year. Today, those numbers are strikingly different: we consumer nearly twenty-five times as much chicken as our great-grandparents did.

Collectively, Americans devour 73.1 million pounds of chicken in a day, close to 8.6 billion birds per year. ... In the spirit of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and Bee Wilson's Consider the Fork, Tastes Like Chicken is a fascinating, clever, and surprising discourse on one of America's favorite foods.

‘PLACE CHANGES YOU,’ SAYS AUTHOR MENG JIN

NPR radio’s (Morning Edition Saturday) Scott Simon speaks 1/11/2020 with author Meng Jin about her debut novel Little Gods, about a 17-year-old whose journey to China reveals the life of her mother, a former physicist who died in America. Author was born in China and immigrated to US at age 5. Now lives in San Francisco.

INTERVIEWER SCOTT SIMON: “You observe, at one point, people born in China who spend most of their lives outside of China begin to carry themselves differently.”

AUTHOR MENG JIN: “I have observed that. I mean, I've observed it when I go back to China. Often people will ask me, oh, are you Japanese? Do you live in Hong Kong? Are you from Hong Kong? And more often now they guess that I am raised in America because that's more and more common now.”

INTERVIEWER SCOTT SIMON: “I guess the Overseas Chinese, is the term I've heard, have - just carry themselves differently after a while?”

AUTHOR MENG JIN: “Well, I think that, you know, place changes you. You know, every person constructs him or herself from the materials that are available to them. And if your context is largely American because you've spent much of your life in America, then it's going to change the way you see yourself. But also, it's going to change the way you hold yourself and the way other people see you.”

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/11/795514895/author-meng-jin-on-little-gods

https://www.wvxu.org/post/author-meng-jin-little-gods#stream/0

Famous Portland, Oregon, sign front & back

Photo I took 1/9/2020 of back of sign

A historical landmark in Portland, Ore., says Wikipedia, the White Stag sign, also known as the "Portland Oregon" sign, is a lighted neon-and-incandescent-bulb sign located atop the White Stag Building, at 70 NW Couch Street in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States, facing the Burnside Bridge.

Construction started: 1940

Alternative names: "Portland Oregon" sign (since 2010)

Former names: White Satin Sugar sign (1940–1957); Made in Oregon sign (1997–2010)

Photo I did not take of front of the sign

From Reader’s Digest February 1967

From Reader’s Digest February 1967/Notes from All Over

"To improve the quality of color TV, the grass at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was dyed a little greener for the World Series last fall. At the Arkansas-Texas football game, the brightly clad fans dressed to please TV audiences. And last winter the hockey-rink ice at Madison Square Garden was tinted blue for the benefit of the TV viewer."

– Peter H. Prugh in The Wall Street Journal

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From Reader’s Digest February 1967/Notes from All Over

At the New Delhi Golf Club in India the ground rules specify that if a monkey picks up a ball, it must be played wherever he drops it.

– Caskie Stinnett in Holiday

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From Reader’s Digest February 1967/Quotable Quotes

“Education is discipline for the adventure of life.”

-       Alfred North Whitehead

YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

Eliminate use of “would like to thank” in speech and writing.

For example, “I would like to thank the wonderful people who built the bridge,” should be “I thank the wonderful people who built the bridge.”

The “would like to thank” indicates permission must be granted by those to be thanked.

Thus, I would like to thank, but until such time that I receive permission to do so, I can’t thank.

Thank you.

THIS IS MY SONG (A Song of Peace)

THIS IS MY SONG
(Jan Sibelius - 1899 / Lloyd Stone - 1934)

Finlandia

This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is,
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine.
But other hearts in other lands are beating,
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country's skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on clover leaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

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Lloyd Stone was an American poet who wrote the first two stanzas of the 1934 hymn This is My Song using the Finlandia Hymn melody composed by Jean Sibeliu

J. C. Penney store in Aberdeen, South Dakota

J. C. Penney, head of the nationwide chain of stores, was visiting his Aberdeen, S. D., store. Clustered around the entrance to meet him were local dignitaries, store officials, clerks and newsmen. After an exchange of greetings, Penney happened to glance past the crowd and spotted a customer standing along at a counter at the far end of the store. “Who,” asked the master merchandiser, “is waiting on that lady back there?” 
--Contributed by Cameron Johnston. Personal Glimpses. Page 14. Reader’s Digest, July 1966


Postscript -- In 2015, J. C. Penney Aberdeen, S.D., store (since moved from downtown to Aberdeen’s Lakewood Mall) closed.