Gates still adopts personas, but they're more often modeled after historic black characters like South Carolina slave potter Dave Drake, who famously wrote poems on the shoulders of his pots at a time when black people were forbidden to read.

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Or could it have been that in December 1988, even in such a permissive time and place, Daphne suspected that she had somehow managed to cross a forbidden line into a social or cultural or family territory that was taboo?

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This in a city and at a time where all forms of violence or injury or hot-headedness are strictly forbidden.

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Given the chance to try whale in Tokyo, I said okay, at the same time experiencing all the familiar feelings that go along with eating a forbidden thing: guilt, a little giddiness, a pinch of dread.

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The popular royal dish moved with the court to Beijing in the early 15th Century and the many cooks who made a pilgrimage to the new palace kitchens of the Forbidden City to impress the emperors refined it over time.

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