Now I want lunch.

Slate has an excellent article today on chankonabe, the soup that makes a sumo wrestle for seconds (and twelfths, and thirty-seconds...). Don't forget to check out the chanko recipe, generously donated by Konishiki, who, in all honesty, The Malcontent cannot afford to take to lunch.

For those who require more scholarly approaches to lunch, check out the chanko article at Gastronomica. As for The Malcontent, whose affection for lunch is even revealed in his profile, well, it's time to find some soup. (But not chanko. The Malcontent is a well-known pho tai junkie.)