When you get divorced, if you don’t get the house or the apartment, what you get is a divorce apartment. Generally speaking it’s a relatively small and crap apartment, reflecting your newly remade financial situation. In fact your divorce apartment will probably resemble the kind of apartment you lived in during your twenties, except that it now contains a you who is no longer in your twenties.
You may or may not deserve all this.
An architect-designed, restaurant-style kitchen was not a feature of my divorce apartment.
In my old life I liked to cook most of my meals, but after I got divorced I ordered takeout most nights. On two out of three of those nights what I ordered was General Tso’s tofu.
There isn’t much that’s authentically Chinese about General Tso’s tofu. There was a real General Tso, who had a very successful career suppressing a lot of internal revolts in China and died in 1885. (According to Wikipedia, he had a long and happy marriage. Good for him.) But he never tasted the tofu that bears his name. General Tso’s chicken was invented in New York in the 1970s and the tofu version came sometime after that. It doesn’t exist in China.
But this inauthenticity withers into irrelevance in the face of General Tso’s greatness as a dish.
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Source: After I Got Divorced, I Leaned on General Tso’s Tofu
Originally posted 2019-12-15 23:23:42.
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