by Sophie Roy | Mar 25, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
Eating is never just eating. It is habit, inheritance, access, geography, and, more often than we would like to admit, power. Taste, if anything, is trained. In Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (in the original mandarin chinese and translated by Lin King) food is...
by Sophie Roy | Mar 9, 2026 | Scratch, THE ITCH
There is an open bookshelf in a town I’ve visited almost every summer since I was born. The general consensus in this kind of affair is that you should leave one to take one. I’ll admit I’ve seldom abided by that rule under the pretense of being on holiday. There are...
