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• 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, 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, 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 [...]

  

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