Bashful Comedian

Tom, killing 'em in Zhytomyr, Ukraine

Nastya was ecstatic. Americans who eat salow? We were international anomolies, cultural savants; in short we were invited to lunch at her mother's apartment the following Sunday. Her mom welcomed us with a meal full of salow - it was in the salad, in the potatoes, it was the main course. Salow, in case you're wondering, is pig fat. But Tom and I are never ones to refuse hospitality. Tom, a theater major, and generally one of the most entertaining people I know, kept the room in stitches.