Book Bait: Squid Ink Ramen

"A bowl of slurpable crude oil, but in the most edible and delicious way. " [ezcol_1fifth]-[/ezcol_1fifth] [ezcol_3fifth] WHAT:  Welcome back my utterly self-serving recipe series I would like to call - The Book Bait, a shameless campaign to draw out all cookbook-hunters to our upcoming cookbook, The Art of Escapism Cooking – A Survival Story.  These are brand new recipes that are not in the cookbook but however, in order to make them, you will need one or more essential component from the book to complete which, yes, is yet to be published on October 15, 2019.  And yes, I am still doing that to you to sell books. WHY:  It isn't without brag when I say that there is an entire chapter in our cookbook enshrined to the universal religion of noodle-slurping and ten of which are full-blown, no bullshit, the milky broth, the umami, the toppings, the thick and the deep, the sacred and the indecent, the full spectrum of the unapologetic and delicious absurdity that is, Japanese-style ramen.  Yes, I went there, the whole nine yards.  And I feel that I could still go further.  Because in Japan's traditionally defined food culture, this rare and liberal, democratic even, arena of