► This week’s Ramen Beast newsletter takes you inside one of Tokyo’s most acclaimed ramen kitchens… Atsushi Yamamoto is one of Japan's most ambitious ramen chefs. He is one of only two Japanese ramen masters currently in possession of a Michelin star and he has spent the past several years tirelessly promoting ramen culture globally by launching over a dozen shops around the world. Yamamoto-san did his ramen training at the old school ramen mecca Eifukucho Taishoken, before going solo in 2006 by founding Soba House Konjiki Hototogisu, a tiny, eight-seat shop on a narrow back alley of Tokyo's Hatagaya neighborhood.

As compared to other European capitals like London or Rome, Paris is actually relatively well-contained and pretty walkable. And while the streets definitely don't run in straight lines (much to the horror of this native New Yorker), it’s relatively easy to see where you're going thanks to the system of arrondissements or districts, numbered 1 to 20, which spiral out in a snail shell shape from the first in the center to the 20th in the northeast.

Here’s the headline reference, in case you’re not fluent in Buffett: My pirate credentials are pretty thin. The mascot of my high school was a pirate; our yearbook was called the Cutlass. High school was also a time when I drank lots of rum, purchased from a liquor store in my hometown that did not trouble itself with minor details such as IDs. We’d pull up to the drive-thru window (of course liquor stores in Georgia have drive-thru windows) and hand the cashier $14 in wadded-up bills and say “Give us this much alcohol.

Premier League clubs have agreed to continue discussions about introducing a hard spending cap for the first time ever, starting from the 2025/26 season. Under this proposal, clubs' spending on wages, transfers and agent fees would be limited to a multiple of the the amount earned by the Premier League’s bottom club in terms of the central TV distribution. There was a lot of support for this concept, as 16 clubs were in favour of further exploring such a system with only three clubs voting against (Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa) and one abstaining (Chelsea).

Aachar & Co is a small-budget feel-good movie set in Bangalore in the 1960s. From the trailer, it seemed like the coming-of-age story of a girl and her family of 10 siblings. It promised fun and nostalgia, especially for those of us who grew up in families like this, and I knew I’d watch it just for the aesthetics and nostalgia if nothing else. I spent a large part of my childhood in the Bangalore neighborhood of Jayanagar.