HeyJaredBooks, Bites & Babel
A weekly newsletter by a PhD student who views life through the books she reads, the food she eats, and the languages she struggles to learn. For artists, readers & other humanist discontents living in Silicon Valley.
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I grew up Episcopalian, which meant going to church every Sunday, and each week our reward for sitting through an hour and a half of sermons and stale bread was going out for dim sum. Forget church wafers—steamed BBQ pork buns are the true Bread of Life. It occurs to me now that this was probably an unusual family tradition, but to me it made perfect sense, indulging in a celebratory family-style meal after praying for the Forgiveness of Sins. We sat down in the booth dressed in our Sunday best
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