NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER

June, 2008

BUFFALO, NY

I had taken us to Dao, my favorite restaurant in Buffalo, a small sushi place on one of the side streets off of Elmwood. The title is not the name of the Asian system of thought, but instead the nickname of the owner, Sadao, a friendly fellow who's been here twenty years but whose English has never quite come around. It was a rectangular space, minimally arranged. There was a real Zen quality to the atmosphere. We ...