Fresh Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce are a delightful and versatile appetizer that harmonizes beautifully with Gabriele Zevin's novel, 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.' The intricate flavors of the rolls and the accompanying rich peanut sauce pair well with the deep, reflective nature of the book, making it a perfect combination. Enjoying these vibrant rolls alongside a glass of White Lotus, a cocktail featuring gin, lychee liqueur, and coconut milk, enhances the sensory experience, transporting readers and tasters alike to new imaginative realms. This trio promises a fulfilling evening of flavors and fiction.
Ingredients
For the Spring Rolls:
- 8 rice paper wrappers
- 1 cup cooked shrimp or tofu, sliced
- 1 cup lettuce, shredded
- 1/2 cup carrots, julienned
- 1/2 cup cucumber, julienned
- 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
- 1/4 cup fresh cilantro leaves
- 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves
- 4 oz vermicelli noodles, cooked
For the Peanut Sauce:
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon honey or sugar
- 1/4 cup warm water
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- Red pepper flakes (optional for heat)
Instructions
Prepare the Peanut Sauce:
- In a bowl, whisk together the peanut butter, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, lime juice, honey, warm water, and minced garlic until smooth. Adjust the consistency with more water if needed.
Assemble the Spring Rolls:
- Soak a rice paper wrapper in warm water until soft, then lay it on a flat surface. Layer the lettuce, carrots, cucumber, herbs, vermicelli noodles, and shrimp or tofu in the center of the wrapper. Fold the sides over the filling and roll tightly.
Serve:
- Serve the spring rolls fresh, with the peanut sauce on the side for dipping.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
In this riveting novel, two friends navigate success, creativity, and heartbreak over thirty years. Starting as childhood collaborators, they find fortune and fame in the gaming world, reflecting on love, loss, and the influence of technology on human connections.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before. "Delightful and absorbing." —The New York Times • "Utterly brilliant." —John Green One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, GoodReads, Oprah Daily From the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won’t protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.
Discussion Questions
- How does the theme of creation and innovation impact the characters’ relationships?
- In what ways does the gaming world serve as a metaphor for real life?
- How does Zevin explore the concept of success and its impact on personal identity?
- Discuss the role of companionship in the novel. How do the characters' friendships evolve and what does it say about human connection?
- How does nostalgia play a role in the narrative and character development?
- What moral dilemmas do the characters face, and how do they resolve them?
- How does technology influence the characters' lives and relationships in the story?
- Discuss the representation of gender and race within the gaming industry as portrayed in the book.
- What role does failure play in the characters’ journeys?
- How does Zevin illustrate the intersection of art and technology throughout the novel?
Authors:
Gabrielle Zevin
ISBN: 0593321200
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2024-06-25
White Lotus
The White Lotus cocktail is an exotic and refreshing drink that combines gin, lychee liqueur, and coconut milk to create a smooth, balanced sip with a hint of floral sweetness, making it an ideal companion for an evening of rich storytelling.
Ingredients
- 2 oz gin
- 1 oz lychee liqueur
- 2 oz coconut milk
- 1/2 oz lime juice
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- Ice
- Lychee fruit for garnish
Instructions
- Combine the gin, lychee liqueur, coconut milk, lime juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
- Shake well until chilled.
- Strain into a glass over ice.
- Garnish with a lychee fruit.