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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, amuse bouche, animals, less food-related, out and about

  Amuse Bouche: A $20 Beetle Landing

  02.28.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  At the Garlic Festival in Delray Beach the other week, this was the most interesting thing that happened (though we didn’t try the garlic ice cream): For ten dollars per person at the gate, one would have thought that the landing of a Coccinellid on a t-shirt would not be something to overshadow the actual [...]

  

• amuse bouche, From the Mouths of Babes, huzhou, less food-related, students, teaching

  On Lady Gaga and Enlightenment

  05.20.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Since my brain has been bled pretty dry in terms of lesson plan ideas, I had my kids make dialogues in class today. Little did I know it was time for the teacher to become the student. In three separate dialogues, the kids exclaimed, “Oh my Lady Gaga!” This is new, red hot catch phrase [...]

  

• amuse bouche, mysterious ingredients

  Hebrewed to Perfection

  01.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  And here I was thinking there was nothing Jewish in Huzhou. I was just looking in the wrong aisle! The Jew’s Ear includes protein, iron, calcium, phosphorous, vitamins, vegetable collagen, as well as many kinds of amino acids. This product was made from Auricularia Auricula-judae (Jew’s Ear) fetched from its ecological environment in the polar [...]

  

• amuse bouche, animals, huzhou, less food-related, mysterious ingredients

  That’s What It’s All About

  10.24.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This friendly fella came squiggling out of my shirt as I was putting it on: The perils of drying your clothes outside, but at least there’s no scorpion worry here like I grew up with Arizona. (And here I should make a joke about how there are no scorpions because the Chinese ate them all. [...]

  

• amuse bouche, huzhou, tidbits

  Crime and Punishment: The Street Corner Nutritionist

  06.09.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Common Poor Eating Habits 1. Eating too much [Are you me? If yes, enter guilty plea to avoid expense of trial] 2. Eating too much MSG [Do you live in China? If yes, guilty.] 3. Getting together and sharing food (like having big parties and getting a lot of food) [Do you live in China? [...]

  

• amuse bouche, huzhou, less food-related, tidbits

  By A Nose

  05.26.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “You have gotten a bit fat,” said King as I hopped on the elliptical. King is my friend and the English-speaking trainer at my gym. Why thank you, King. But that’s what happens when your parents come to visit and you spend 3 weeks eating 2-3 meals a day in restaurants where oil practically oozes [...]

  

• amuse bouche, headaches, less food-related, musings, teaching

  So who lives in Central and South America…?

  04.12.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Jennifer pointed out this infuriating little gem occupying the bottom corner of the front page of a newspaper distributed to students all over China to help them with their English. “There are mainly three kinds of races in the world—white, yellow, and black. The white people live all over the world—in Europe, America, and East [...]

  

• amuse bouche, animals, chicken

  Which Came First?

  03.18.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Look what I found in my eggs: Alert the FDA–this obviously came from a LIVING ANIMAL, ohmygod, I’m going to die. And I’ve been ‘reunited,’ as such. Many many thanks to my mom and dad, who bought it for me and went through hell and lots of money to ship it across the Pacific. My [...]

  

• amuse bouche, animals, chicken, entrees, huzhou, mysterious ingredients

  It’s What’s For Dinner

  12.17.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  

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