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

  Cloud to Cloud Lightning

  05.16.11 | Permalink | 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 [...]

  

• America, florida, less food-related, out and about

  Island of the Lizard People

  04.27.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is a general misconception among non-Floridians concerning the city of West Palm Beach and the affluence of its residents. The words palm and beach together evoke images of Donald Trump, pearls with Lacoste shirts, and men’s loafers without socks. These are all apt representations of many citizens of Palm Beach but not, however, West [...]

  

• America, animals, chicken, cooking, headaches, huzhou, MEAT, musings, students

  There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand

  04.23.11 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I noticed the silliest thing today: there are bananas growing in my yard. Where am I, the tropics or something? I thought Florida was only good for citrus and yachts, and now suddenly there’s a potassium shrub right next to where we keep the garbage cans. I’ve noticed the bananas many times before, but it [...]

  

• America, animals, cooking, florida, florida restaurants, Gerald, home cooking, MEAT, Parks, Reverse Culture Shock

  A Round of Light Boxing

  04.19.11 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I’ve now been in Florida 6 months, and let’s not pretend it has been an easy transition, because it hasn’t. The job market here is about as dry as British humor and not nearly as entertaining (though in a coup, I recently had an interview, which is as far as it went). The unavoidable and [...]

  

• America, animals, florida, headaches, less food-related, mysterious ingredients

  Tars and Stripes Forever

  04.09.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  While walking on the beach yesterday, John and I were treated to a special exfoliating pedicure. The newest luxury exfoliator: Tar! (I put in the bottle cap for size reference. This was a small to medium sized tar pool.) It’s such a good exfoliation method that it doesn’t even come off your feet. It just [...]

  

• America, florida, markets, musings, weekend nom

  Market Trends

  03.22.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  By far one of the things I most enjoy about life in China is the outdoor produce markets. Of course, I never quite got comfortable with seeing raw chicken and beef and pork laid nonchalantly upon stone counters under a day of heat, China air, and occasional flies. Being conspicuously the only foreigner, I didn’t [...]

  

• America, boring things made interesting, housecleaning, less food-related

  The Turn of the Screw

  03.17.11 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  When I was a spry elementary school student, one of the extracurriculars my parents arranged for me was a shop class. It was run by a married couple with the last name Hills. Before each class, we sat in Mr. Hills’ living room and recited the Golden Rule, and then he taught us how to [...]

  

• America, animals, less food-related, Parks

  Where the Wild Things Are

  03.14.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  While I was living in China, locals in every city used to tell me to visit the city parks because they were ‘natural.’ Indeed, the pretty plots of grass, flowers and trees wedged between concrete behemoths were both social hubs and the closest one could get to anything containing the slightest whiff of nature. Growing [...]

  

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