May 2011

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• America, amuse bouche, florida, less food-related

  Cloud to Cloud Lightning

  05.16.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  It’s the time of year for storms, lightning and hurricanes, so that means afternoon and evening thunderstorms: This is a shot looking east down our street. Apparently I got pretty statically charged. Fun fact: Florida (specifically Orlando) is, according to John, the lightning capital of the world, so in a way we were taking our [...]

  

• America, baking, home cooking, recipes, unruly chefs

  Satisfried

  05.09.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  There’s a lot about the American diet and food culture that doesn’t click with me: meat, butter, white bread, meat. The lack of diverse dining options (though I know this is not true of everywhere in the US), the high cost of ‘fresh’ produce. A huge part of the reason I love China (and many [...]

  

• America, Kashgar, less food-related, out and about, travel

  Junkyards and Uighur Bagels

  05.07.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  In February, my parents went to Byromville, Georgia to attend the funeral of my mother’s uncle, Haessler, and to attend to his estate. After much goading and persuasion, my father has written a guest post about Byromville, and he took some pretty nice shots to go with it. So everyone, please welcome the man who [...]

  

• baking, home cooking, mysterious ingredients, recipes

  Be Your Own Betty Crocker

  05.02.11 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Since being back in America, I have had to deal with exposure to things that seemed foreign to me after my years in China. For example, soap in the bathrooms, toilet paper in the bathrooms, dishwashers, clothes dryers, plain yogurt, and brown rice, to name a few. Readjustment hasn’t been all that hard in most [...]

  

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