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• America, butter, entrees, fish, florida, florida restaurants, restaurants, Shanghai, weekend nom

  Weekend Nom: Havana Hideout

  02.13.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Sometimes when I’m bored, I like to play a game: What would I eat right now if I were in China? Usually the answer is eggplant, Sichuan, Muslim, tofu—ok well I’d eat pretty much any Chinese food. When I was living in China I used to play this game but change it to What would [...]

  

• America, beijing, huzhou, less food-related, MEAT, musings, Reverse Culture Shock, Shanghai, teaching

  In-CAR-ceration

  02.11.11 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  When I taught college in Huzhou, I used to do a unit on the stages of life: baby, toddler, kid, adolescent, teenager, adult, etc. I used to also teach my students the ages that Americans could drive, buy cigarettes, vote, and drink. They were always amazed that the drinking age is 21, as there is [...]

  

• America, MEAT, Reverse Culture Shock, Tofu

  SOS: Save Our Soy

  02.04.11 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  One of the hardest aspects of re-acclimating to life in America has been getting reacquainted with the carnivorous tendencies of my mother culture. I’m not a vegetarian; I never could be. I love burgers and ribs and chicken and all that fleshy, juicy complete protein. But it seems to me that our culture is a [...]

  

• America, less food-related

  Shock, Culture, Reverse.

  02.02.11 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  It is with a sheepish enthusiasm that I return, at last, to Plate of Wander. It has now been almost 4 full months since I left China and began my life in Florida. Florida. I had never been to Florida prior to moving here, but I thought of it as another adventure, another frontier yet [...]

  

• America, Gerald, holidays, huzhou, less food-related, travel

  Hu-ville

  07.16.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I was intending to take advantage of fast, unblocked Internet to update a lot during my visit home. Things were said, promises made. But then I got there and I couldn’t really think of anything to take pictures of or write about. I mostly spent time revisiting my American habits. My good friend Rachel and [...]

  

• America, animals, fish, less food-related, musings, travel

  One small step for man

  06.30.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Physics has never been my forte (ditto with anything numerical or scientific), but one thing I do recall from my high school Intro to Physics class is the general idea of the Theory of Relativity. Basically that someone traveling the speed of light for a certain amount of time will age slower than a stationary [...]

  

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

  It’s All Greek to Me

  10.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  You know how local newspapers have sections dedicated to things that are happening in your area? Things like gazpacho contests, book signings, New Age fairs, concerts you can’t afford, and a million activities to keep the kids from saying “I’m bored!” for an hour if you’re lucky. Usually I look at the list of goings-on [...]

  

• America, baking, butter, chocolate, dessert, holidays, recipes

  Jew Eat Yet?

  10.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Food and religion seem to me to go hand and hand. My dad’s family is Jewish and my mom’s is Christian, so my brother and I were raised celebrating holidays from both religions. (And no, this does not mean twice the presents. It just means half the presents twice.) Except for some family bar/bat mitzvahs, [...]

  

• America, baking, chicken, cooking, dessert, entrees, recipes

  A Fowl Habit

  10.03.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I am going to take up smoking. I tried it for the first time this past weekend, and let me tell you it is cool. I know, I know. A lot of naysayers out there will try to talk me out of it, but there’s not much you can tell me that I don’t already [...]

  

• America, baking, dessert, recipes

  Like Clockwork

  09.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Ah, youth. They say it’s wasted on the young, and I guess if I weren’t still (kind of) one of the whippersnappers that cliché undermines, I would be inclined to agree. Youth—a song of bill-less, tax-less, job-less naïveté sustained by pizza, French fries, and candy. When long division is the bane of one’s existence, imaginary [...]

  

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