Cold Kelp Noodle Salad

20220730 #breakfastdiary 510, 33°C/clear, 11min/exercise Over cold-rinsed kelp noodles, slice in the prettiest tomato, onion, and perilla leaves in the world, then add olive oil, salt and plenty of pepper, white balsamic, and lime juice, and mix well. The so-called "book band controversy" is a pretty old argument in publishing circles. Publishers use those paper bands—cheap to make, and just enough to catch a reader's eye—but some readers dislike them, calling them wasteful and cumbersome, which is where the argument comes from. If I had to pick a side, I suppose I fall into the "anti-band" camp myself. I never liked the way a band, plastered with blunt promotional copy, covers up the book cover's actual design. Choi Won-hyung, The Book Band Competition Most people don't throw the band away—they use it as a bookmark instead, peeling it off the cover and slipping it in wherever they've stopped reading, then wrapping it back around the book once they're done. Despite all the criticism, it's a small courtesy, I suppose, toward however much thought some marketer poured into that band just to win over a reader.