How to Pick Up Anything
Learning to use chopsticks has brought me closer to my culture
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6 min readJun 10, 2019
My father handed me a folded slip of red paper. Printed inside were the instructions, saved from a recent restaurant excursion, for using chopsticks: Tuck under thumb and hold firmly. Add second chopstick, hold it as you hold a pencil. Hold first chopstick in original position, move the second one up and down. Now you…