ramen burger ontology-- even more OT

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 7 17:00:05 UTC 2013


On Aug 6, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Geoff Nathan wrote:

> I have one whenever my cholesterol seems to be running low. So far that's exactly once, and Margaret and I shared it, took half of it home and shared that for an additional lunch later in the week.
> Nit aza koysher, either....
> But then, no pretensions that it is, despite the name of the restaurant, which is named after the building (which was once an early 20th century immigrant insurance company).
> Amazing lobby, too:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/snweb/1574341248/
>

Beautiful.  As for the name, I was just in Geneva for the International Congress of Linguists and stopped in the 12th century Cathédrale St. Pierre (scaled back by Jean Calvin himself), whose highlight is the very impressive Chapel of the Maccabees, which I doubt ever saw a latke.

LH

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