“There is that difference between being kicked in the teeth and reading a description of being kicked in the teeth. Some call it existential.”
― Gita Mehta, Karma Cola
Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again 150 years after founding
30 JUNE 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS JAY REEVES
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (AP) — Born in the ashes of the smoldering South after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan died and was reborn before losing the fight against civil rights in the 1960s. Membership dwindled, a unified group fractured, and one-time members went to prison for a string of murderous attacks against blacks. Many assumed the group was dead, a white-robed ghost of hate and violence.
Yet today, the KKK is still alive and dreams of restoring itself to what it once was: an invisible empire spreading its tentacles throughout society. As it marks 150 years of existence, the Klan is trying to reshape itself for a new era.
Klan members still gather by the dozens under starry Southern skies to set fire to crosses in the dead of night, and KKK leaflets have shown up in suburban neighborhoods from the Deep South to the Northeast in recent months. Perhaps most unwelcome to opponents, some independent Klan organizations say they are merging with larger groups to build strength.
In a series of interviews with The Associated Press, Klan leaders said they feel that U.S. politics are going their way, as a nationalist, us-against-them mentality deepens across the nation. Stopping or limiting immigration — a desire of the Klan dating back to the 1920s — is more of a cause than ever. And leaders say membership has gone up at the twilight of President Barack Obama's second term in office, though few would provide numbers.
Joining the Klan is as easy as filling out an online form — provided you're white and Christian. Members can visit an online store to buy one of the Klan's trademark white cotton robes for $145, though many splurge on the $165 satin version. Read More
London man arrested over extremist postings on social media
30 JUNE 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (AP) — British authorities say a London man has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred by detectives investigating extreme right-wing, anti-Islam and anti-Semitic postings on social media.
Scotland Yard said the 44-year-old was taken into custody Wednesday morning and later bailed.
Hate crimes and other intolerant acts have gained increasing prominence following Britain's vote to leave the European Union. Read More
Zika sex research begins despite U.S. Congress funding impasse
30 JUNE 2016 REUTERS BILL BERKROT
It could take years to learn how long men infected with Zika are capable of sexually transmitting the virus, which can cause crippling birth defects and other serious neurological disorders.
In the meantime, health officials have warned couples to refrain from unprotected sex for six months after a male partner is infected. The extraordinary recommendation, based on a single report of Zika surviving 62 days in semen, could affect millions.
The grave risks associated with Zika, along with its potential reach, are driving U.S. health authorities to pursue research even though funding is mired in Congressional gridlock. A study of sexual transmission risk is one example of science that health officials said can’t wait for politics.
... In the meantime, the White House has diverted more than $500 million earmarked for other projects for urgent Zika initiatives, including those where scientific opportunities will be lost if not acted upon immediately.
... "We got very surprised by Ebola that it was hanging around for so long," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
"One of the big questions we have to ask is does Zika also cause a similar type of latency?” Read More
Godzilla and fellow kaiju monsters apologise at Japanese press conference for acts of destruction
30 JUNE 2016 ROCKETNEWS24 OONA MCGEE
... These types of formal apologies are commonly seen on television news reports around Japan, in cases where high-profile politicians and celebrities formally atone for scandals and wrongdoings, expressing remorse to the public with deep, heartfelt bows. Only this time, it’s a group of well-known movie monsters making amends for their actions. Read More
(Hedorah, also known as The Smog Monster, is the only one to forgo the formal bow, replacing it instead with a long stare into the crowd with vertical red-and-yellow eyes.)
Godzilla’s archenemy King Ghidorah bows all three heads in regret.
"Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow."
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Final Benghazi report: No 'smoking gun' pointing to Clinton
28 JUNE 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday concluded their $7 million, two-year investigation into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, with fresh accusations of lethal mistakes by the Obama administration but no "smoking gun" pointing to wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state and now the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee.
While the panel's GOP members took shots at Clinton on Tuesday, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., the chairman, summed up the document by asking "the American people to read this report for themselves, look at the evidence we have collected and reach their own conclusions."
In Denver, Clinton dismissed the report as an echo of previous probes with no new discoveries. "I think it's pretty clear it's time to move on," she said during a campaign stop. Read More
'Little guy' contractors still angry at Trump Taj bankruptcy
28 JUNE 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS BERNARD CONDON
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY (AP) -- ... A quarter of a century had passed since Donald Trump refused to pay $1.2 million for the paving stones her late husband installed at Atlantic City's Taj Mahal casino. But for Paone and others like her - the dozens of contractors and their families who never got all they were owed - it could have happened yesterday.
... Of all the real estate and casino deals in Trump's long career, the Taj arguably sheds the most light on how the would-be U.S. president handles crises. It was his biggest gamble, the "eighth wonder of the world," as he dubbed it. And when it went south, his moves to avoid a financial hit to his empire hobbled many small businesses with little cushion to absorb the blow.
... After the Taj opened in April 1990, the self-anointed "King of Debt" owed $70 million to 253 contractors employing thousands who built the domes and minarets, put up the glass and drywall, laid the pipes and installed everything from chandeliers to bathroom fixtures. A year later, when the casino collapsed into bankruptcy, those owed the most got only 33 cents in cash for each dollar owed, with promises of another 50 cents later. It took years to get the rest, assuming the companies survived long enough to collect.
"We got next to nothing," says Michael MacLeod, whose 40-person studio made the giant elephant statues at the entrance to Taj. "I took a big hit."
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks and Trump attorney Alan Garten did not respond to a list of questions about the candidate's Taj dealings. Read More
Volkswagen settles emissions cheating for $15.3 billion
28 JUNE 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS MICHAEL BIESECKER, TOM KRISHNER, DEE-ANN DURBIN
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Volkswagen is taking a major step toward compensating owners and government regulators for its emissions cheating scandal. But it will take much longer to repair the damage to its reputation.
The German automaker has agreed to spend up to $15.3 billion to settle consumer lawsuits and government allegations that its diesel cars cheated on U.S. emissions tests. The settlement announced Tuesday is believed to be the largest auto-related class-action settlement in U.S. history.
Up to $10 billion will go to 475,000 VW or Audi diesel owners. VW agreed to either buy back or repair their vehicles, although it hasn't yet developed a fix for the problem. Owners will also receive payments of $5,100 to $10,000.
The settlement still must be approved by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, who has set a July 26 hearing for preliminary approval. Final approval is expected in October.
Owners expressed relief that a plan is finally coming together nine months after the scandal was uncovered. But they're still angry. Diesel owners thought they were buying high-performance, environmentally friendly cars; they felt betrayed when they learned the vehicles' emissions vastly exceeded U.S. pollution laws. Read More
Facebook CEO's Hawaii neighbors grumble about new wall
28 JUNE 2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS AUDREY MCAVOY
HONOLULU, HAWAI`I (AP) -- Some of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's neighbors are grumbling about a rock wall he's having built on his property on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Retiree Moku Crain said Tuesday the wall looks daunting and forbidding. Crain hopes and expects Zuckerberg will soften the wall's look by planting foliage around it.
The wall began going up about four to six weeks ago. It runs along the property next to a road in the semi-rural community of Kilauea.
"Whereas before when we drove along the road we could see the ocean and see through the property, it's closing off that view," Crain said. "So I think that's part of it. Nobody likes change."
Crain estimated the wall was about 6 feet tall and that another existing wall on the property was only about 4 feet. Few would complain if the new wall was built at the same height, Crain predicted.
Lindsay Andrews, a spokeswoman for the billionaire's Kauai property operations, says the rock wall is designed to reduce highway and road noise. Similar walls are routinely used for this purpose, she said. The wall follows all rules and regulations, she said.
"Our entire team remains committed to ensuring that any development respects the local landscape and environment and is considerate of neighbors," she said in a statement.
... Forbes reported Zuckerberg paid over $100 million for the property, which spans more than 700 acres on the coast, in 2014.
Catlin said it was a good thing Zuckerberg bought the property because a previous landowner had plans to build a housing development on part of it, which would have increased cars and traffic. The Garden Island newspaper reported in 2014 that a 357-acre section of the property called the Kahuaina plantation had been subdivided for 80 luxury homes of up to seven acres a piece. Read More
Admiring the tarnished silver screen
28 JUNE 2016 JAPAN TIMES JOHN L TRAN
CHUO-KU, TOKYO (Japan Times) -- Old chewing gum, cheap carpet sticky from spilled drinks, sagging seats pitted with cigarette burns: Satoshi Chuma’s photographs of old cinemas on show at the National Film Center are fantastically evocative of the decline and fall of celluloid.
Having spent several years working in the projection booth, Chuma has photographed the dark interiors and grimy exteriors of movie houses around Japan for several years. As an exhibition, “Movie Theaters” is not perfect: Some of the prints are perhaps a little too dark, the presentation is fairly rudimentary and monochrome photos of rundown architecture are nothing new. Chuma also, rather profanely, mixes genres. Close-ups of the editing and projection machinery are strongly reminiscent of the “new objectivity” movement of the 1920s and ’30s. At other times, when shadowy figures make an occasional appearance in the frame, or Chuma’s composition strays from the straight and level, there is the more human and conversational tone of New York School street photography.
The exhibition has ample opportunity to fail, but it doesn’t. With less commitment and heart, it could easily have been a retro-hipster project, with less perspicacity it would have been a sentimental nostalgia trip. It succeeds because deriding and distancing oneself from narrative has become something of a mannerism in contemporary art photography, but in Chuma’s dream-like images, there seems to be a measured and conciliatory ambivalence toward the desire to feed the unconscious with stories of sex, violence and adventure.
In comparison to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s more widely known cinema photography series, which treats the blank whiteness of the overexposed screen as a kind of transcendence, Chuma pokes about in the gloom, photographing the vaguely smutty abjection of out-of-date movie posters, ruched curtains and cheap chandeliers. Sugimoto presents movie theaters as grand and vainglorious. Chuma lurks around like a jaded film-noir gumshoe at the scene of the crime — disillusioned, but nevertheless driven to pursue the mystery of human folly to the bitter end.
Whether by accident or design, Chuma’s “Movie Theaters” series also provides a neat visual exploration of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”: The forlorn auditoriums, juxtaposed with the mechanisms of projection, hint at the Greek philosopher’s proposition that we can escape the world of shadows by properly understanding how we are deceived by representations. Nathan Anderson suggests in his book “Shadow Philosophy: Plato’s Cave and Cinema” that we differ from Plato’s prisoners, who are born in the cave and are chained to their beliefs, in one crucial respect: We enter the cinema in the full knowledge that we are going to be deceived.
This understanding seems to be present and correct in Chuma’s gaze. He does not romanticize cinema, but it’s quite possible he loves it all the same. Read More -----
April 12 - July 10, 2016
Movie TheatersThe Works of Satoshi Chuma, Projectionist-PhotographerDate: April 12 (Tue) – July 10 (Sun)Location: Exhibition Gallery (7th floor)Hours: 11:00am-6:30pm (admission until 6:00pm)Closed: Mondays, Jun. 13-17Admission: Single Ticket 210(Group Admission 100)/ University & College Students, Seniors (age 65 or over) 70(Group Admission 40) *Free for High School Students and under 18; Persons with disability and one person accompanying each of them are admitted free or charge.Free on May.18. For more detailed information, please see the following page (in Japanese).
For 120 years since the invention of cinematography, movie theaters have been a special place for people to gather together in the dark, seeing the same “dream” with their eyes open. At present, however, with the shift in screening technique from film to digital projection, historical movie theaters, where our imagination has been fostered, are closing down one by one. Even so, many movie theaters or screening facilities are still tenaciously continuing conventional film projection all over Japan, as well as accepting new technologies.
This exhibition introduces about 100 works by photographer Satoshi Chuma, who published his first photo book Eigakan (Movie Theaters) last year. Working as a film projectionist in Kansai, since 2007 Chuma has been traveling throughout Japan to shoot not just the buildings but also their projection booths or even explore the nooks and crannies of those places that exude an aura of cinema. Those works, mainly in monochrome, not only have value as documentation, but also show the extreme intimate senses of the space where cinema and ourselves have connected.
Taking this opportunity, we are also displaying photographs of gorgeous movie theaters in the prewar era from NFC’s collection to show how they led 20th century culture. It will be a great chance to recall the past memories of old films, rediscover what value films have held in society, and examine how cinema culture might look in the future. Read More
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
-- Orson Welles
Monotype overhauls London Underground's 100-year-old Johnston typeface
27 JUNE 2016 DEZEEN EMMA TUCKER
International font company Monotype has brought the London Tube's 100-year-old typeface into the 21st century, adding the hashtag, at sign and lighter weights more suitable for digital use.
The Johnston typeface is deployed across Transport for London's maps, signage and posters. It is known for its distinctive diamond-shaped tittle – that is, the dot over a lowercase i.
The typeface was originally created by British artist and calligrapher Edward Johnston, and introduced into the company's train and bus services in 1916.
Monotype's updated version of Johnston, dubbed Johnston100, adds a pair of new weights to the font family – hairline and thin – which have been created specifically for digital use.
Characters that had previously been missing from the original design – notably, the hash (#) and at (@) symbols – have also been included in the update.
... Referring back to archive drawings, Monotype designers Nadine Chahine and Malou Verlomme focused on reintroducing design quirks that had been lost – such as a more angular bowl on the lowercase g. Read More
Renzo Piano completes Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on a huge artificial hill
28 JUNE 2016 DEZEEN AMY FREARSON
ATHENS, GREECE (Dezeen) -- Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history.
Located in the Kallithea district in the south of the Greek capital, the huge Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre creates new homes for the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, tucked beneath a new 170,000-square-metre sloping park and beside a 400-metre-long rectangular lake.
The project was made possible by a €596 million (£496 million) donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation – the charity set up after the death of billionaire Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos.
Now the complex is complete, the foundation is handing it as a gift to the Greek state, but will continue to contribute to its upkeep.
... "From our first observations there emerged the idea that by raising the ground - with a slight slope and a progressive course - we could restore the 'beautiful view' of Kallithea," wrote Piano in an essay about the project.
"In that way, without realizing it, visitors strolling through the park would find themselves at a height of thirty metres."
The new sloping park, planted with indigenous Greek plants to designs by New York landscape designer Deborah Nevins, forms the roof of the opera house and library. The top of the artificial hill, which rises to 32 metres, is capped by a paper-thin roof held aloft by slender columns.
The 100 x 100 roof, dubbed the "flying carpet" by Piano, is topped by a hectare of photovoltaic panels that generate 2.5 megawatts to power the building. Beneath its shade-giving expanse is yet more sloping public space plus a large glass-walled reading room called the Lighthouse.
At ground level, the opera and the library are organised around a public plaza known as the agora – a reference to the central gathering spaces in Ancient Greek cities.
Inside the library, huge walls of shelving offer storage for its collection, which includes over 5,000 manuscripts, documents, records and engravings, dating back to the ninth century.
Other facilities in this part of the building include a business incubator dedicated to entrepreneurship, a music recording studio, and areas for children and teenagers – all of which can be found on the ground and first floors.
On the opposite side of the building, the opera house features two auditoriums. The first, containing 450 seats, will host traditional operas and ballets, while the grander 1,400-seat hall will be used for "experimental performances".
There are also an assortment of dressing rooms, rehearsal spaces and production areas for costumes and props.
The new park – occupying land that was once home to a horse-racing track – contains thousands of new trees, bushes and shrubs. It includes sports facilities that range from running tracks to a playground.
The Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre will officially open later this year, once its interiors have been fully fitted out. It becomes the first public building in Greece to achieve a Platinum LEED certification, in recognition of its sustainability. Read More
Wan Tseng's Wisp wearables are an alternative to "intense" sex toys
27 JUNE 2016 DEZEEN EMMA TUCKER
Royal College of Art graduate Wan Tseng has designed erotic devices that provide a subtle, sensation-focused alternative to traditional sex toys.
The Wisp wearables include silicone jewellery that's worn around the wrist and neck, and a set of circular pads that stick onto the skin anywhere on the body. The pads emulate the sensation of light grazes, firmer touches and gently blowing breath.
Unlike most electronic sex toys on the market, they focus on the pleasure of stimulation rather than an end goal of orgasm.
"I designed this sensory collection to help women embrace their natural sexuality," the designer told Dezeen. "If you think about the current sex toy market, it's more intense products like dildos or vibrators, which are focused on orgasm.
"I don't think there's much focus on the area I'm working in right now."
The Wisp collection includes a product called Touch, which uses mini motors and a set of five circular silicone pads that sit on the skin to create sensations similar to touching.
The Whisper toy changes temperature and blows air to recreate the feeling of "a lover's breath".
Both objects have been designed to be placed anywhere on the wearer's skin, allowing owners to customise the toys to their most sensitive areas.
The Air necklace includes an air-blower and a speaker, and can also release perfume. Wearers can use the necklace to play music from their phone via Bluetooth, as well as adding their own favourite fragrance to the jewellery.
Tseng designed the collection of toys after interviewing a group of women with different sexual preferences and carrying out research into the different stages of male and female arousal.
"I want to create a better and more beautiful, personal experience for girls," she said. "You directly attach the accessory to the skin, more like a body tattoo."
"It's a new kind of concept. I think it's not a toy, but more like a communication tool for yourself." Read More
My Japanology / Starting from boyhood play in Yokohama
27 JUNE 2016 THE JAPAN NEWS HIROTO SEKIGUCHI
TOKYO, JAPAN (Yomiuri Shimbun) -- These days, kids grow up with technology gadgets such as smartphones, and are exposed to virtual reality on the screen. Adults might think that our children are no longer playing with toy cars. However, Harold Meij, the first foreign president of toy maker Tomy Co., says traditional physical toys can attract children’s interest by creating connections with digital technologies. The Dutch executive, who was himself a big fan of Tomy’s die-cast cars as a boy, spoke about his vision.
Q: You lived in Japan during your childhood. Did you play with Tomy’s toys at that time?
Meij: Yes. I came to Japan for the first time when I was 8 years old. My father had a job at a Japanese company.
Obviously I didn’t speak Japanese. But the problem was I didn’t speak English either. At that time I just spoke Dutch, because I was 8 years old. So you only speak one language.
Because I went to international school, everything at school was English. I didn’t know the words “yes,” “no,” nothing. But once I was outside of school, everything was in Japanese, which I didn’t know a single word of either.
So I was completely lost. I didn’t have friends. I could watch TV but I had no idea what they were talking about. And my father worked for a Japanese company: Back then, he worked Saturdays. So I never got to see my parents either. They were very busy.
All I had was toys, basically, to just play with myself. And back then, it was very common to go play in parks. So there was a little park near where I was living in Yokohama, and I was just sitting there and playing with what now are Tomica (Tomy’s die-cast cars).
And I was playing with them and other kids came over. They were talking to me in Japanese, which I didn’t understand.
But they were saying something about the cars, obviously, the Tomica. I didn’t know what. I don’t know if it was good or bad. But they were saying something. And that’s how communication started.
And it’s like, oh, well I have a Tomica, too, kind of thing. Oh, I know that one, because I’ve seen that around. So it’s all about hand communication really.
But that’s how it started. And that’s how single words came out like “kuruma” (car), “iro” (color), “aka” (red). So I slowly started to learn the language and make friends. The thing that allowed me to do that was the Tomica. Read More
Everyday Exploration / Social change seen in hire-a-priest services
27 JUNE 2016 THE JAPAN NEWS TAMOTSU SAITO
OSAKA, JAPAN (Yomiuri Shimbun) -- An increasing number of people are using internet services to arrange for monks to hold funerals and Buddhist memorial services, instead of using ones from their family temples.
... Detachment from temples
Terakuru started in 2012. It currently has registered 450 temples from eight different sects nationwide. The number of monthly users has risen from an initial 150 to 500.
Tomomi Hatta, general manager of sales at management company Uniquest Online Inc. in Osaka, said: “When monks are eager to provide superior service, they try to give Buddhist sermons that are easily understood. That gives users satisfaction.”
Dispatch monk services with fixed-rate pricing have become noticeable over the last five or six years. Today, scores of companies offer such services.
In December last year, major internet retailer Amazon Japan G.K. began dealing with Obosan-Bin, or monk post, a service of Minrevi Co. in Tokyo, a company involved in the funeral industry. The service has attracted considerable publicity.
The popularity of such services derives from the current situation of users, as well as temples.
From the users’ point of view, more and more people are not affiliated with a family temple. They are also not satisfied with the cost, thinking things such as, “I’m not sure how much I should pay for a funeral or Buddhist service,” and “The cost for a dharma name varies from ¥150,000 to ¥1 million..." Read More
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des hommes
Science wouldn't lie: You can bring a corpse to orgasm
1 APRIL 2015 SALON ANNA PULLEY
(AlterNet) -- Science has made many groundbreaking discoveries through research and experimentation (and sometimes guessing and getting lucky). But sometimes we wonder how certain experiments came to be in the first place. For instance, the study that found the smell of Good ‘n’ Plenty candy increases vaginal blood flow, or the one that asked “What might be the minimal stimulus required to excite a turkey?” With that in mind, we found some of the most bizarre sex and relationship studies to share in the collective what-the-f*ckery. Enjoy.
1. Turkeys will mate with a head on a stick.
Let’s start with the excitable turkeys. In the far-out 1960s, researchers Martin Schein and Edgar Hale of the University of Pennsylvania determined that male turkeys would try to mate with female turkeys who, well, were half the gals they used to be. Researchers started by removing from the female a wing, a tail, etc., part by part, until all that was left was a head on a stick, which the male turkey determined was still good enough to have sex with. And you thought men were unfussy when it came to sex partners! The male turkey would not, however, try to mate with the opposite setup — a turkey body with no head attached. Good to see male turkeys have at least one standard. Researchers theorized that male turkeys were neither leg nor breast men, but that they mostly cared about female turkey faces, which is kind of sweet if you forget about the rest of this barbaric study.
... 7. You can bring a corpse to orgasm.
Another Mary Roach gem, found in her book Stiff on human cadavers (and in her TED talk), is the study that found out if you stimulate the sacral nerve root of a beating-heart cadaver with an electrode, it triggers the Lazarus reflex, which is a movement in which the legally dead person will cross its arms across its chest. “Very unsettling for people working in pathology labs,” as Roach put it. Roach surmised that if a corpse can be stimulated to do the Lazarus, it could also be stimulated to orgasm. So she asked brain death expert Stephanie Mann: “Could you conceivably trigger an orgasm in a dead person?” She said, ‘Yes, if the sacral nerve is being oxygenated, you conceivably could.’ Obviously it wouldn’t be as much fun for the person. But it would be an orgasm — nonetheless.” So not only can researchers make corpses do part of the macarena, they can also give dead people the time of their lives (deaths?). Read More
We make French toast from castella cake, and it’s absolutely yums!【Rocket Kitchen】
How can you make an almost perfect food taste better? Make it with cake!
27 JUNE 2016 ROCKETNEWS24 MEG MURPHEY
On the Japanese internet, users are raving about castella (カステラ) French toast, made from the popular Japanese sponge cake originally brought to the country by Portuguese merchants. French toast and sponge cake — sounds like a match made in heaven, no? Well, we had to see if it really is worth all of the fuss, so our Japanese-language writer Ahiru Neko, lover of sweets, hopped on the bandwagon and set to the task of creating this delicacy.
The ingredients are few and simple, and you’re likely to already have them in your kitchen.
You will need: 100 millilitres of milk 1 egg 1 tablespoon of butter And of course, your castella sponge cake
Ahiru says that with the sweetness of the sponge cake, you can enjoy it as-is, but if you want that little extra something, a light drizzle of maple syrup makes it simply divine. Read More
