NIGORI GENSU

A fellow blogger made an amusing reference today to MLK's "whitewashed" image as I was enjoying some tasty nigori gensu sake, a Christmas gift, and what I imagine all my wu xia heroes are tossing back from their tiny cups --over and over-- until they are staggering blithering drunk. (Although it's more likely the deadly 100-plus proof baijiu.)  Nigori gensu is creamy white and opaque, an antique-style sake (yeah, Japanese, but rice wine is rice wine) and I think I may have to lay in a case.  But today, I raise my little cup to the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., whose contributions to a better America are far more significant than just today's Federal holiday.