
Just shy of the Arctic Circle, where Alaska’s Seward Peninsula stretches westward toward Russia, there sits Point Spencer, a miles-long, narrow spit of sand, gravel, and permafrost that’s less than 100 feet wide in places. It’s witnessed waves of human dispersal over millennia, and served as both an intercontinental marketplace and a Cold War military outpost. Now, another dazzling chapter for Point Spencer begins: Magnified 10 times, sand originally collected from one of its beaches appears as glittering, semiprecious stones. |
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If you’re familiar with American Chinese cuisine, you’re likely familiar with crab rangoon, which features cream cheese, sometimes sweetened, plus, usually, very small bits of imitation crab, stuffed into a wonton wrapper and deep-fried, served with a syrupy, neon sweet-and-sour dipping sauce. It has a Burmese name, is served in a theoretically Chinese restaurant, and its main component was invented in New York in the late 19th century. What the heck is crab rangoon, and how did it happen? |
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