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• florida, home cooking, less food-related, mysterious ingredients, street food

  A Whole New Street Food

  03.06.11 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  One of the little rituals John and I have is that every Sunday is Pasta Night. This started back when we were living in Shanghai; Sunday was my longest and most grueling teaching day, and he would have a comforting, carb-y pasta dinner ready when I got home. I actually hadn’t eaten Italian-style pasta (except [...]

  

• animals, entrees, headaches, Thailand, travel

  Promises and Pachydermal Proboscides

  02.14.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Throughout my few years of travel, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things: pineapples grow in the ground. Smile innocently at your waiter in Italy and you’ll get free drinks whether you wanted them or not. In the Costa Rican forest, that huge thing you think is a tree is technically a vine. Jaguars will [...]

  

• America, dessert, entrees, Malaysia, mysterious ingredients, Penang, travel

  Double Negative

  02.03.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Life is hard when you’re on vacation in Malaysia. First, you cannot find the motivation to put up another blog post. You also cannot live up to the one that preceded it. There are a lot of other restrictions on what you can do in Penang. Even in the winter, it’s too hot to wear [...]

  

• entrees, fish, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, mysterious ingredients, out and about, restaurants, travel

  Making a KL-ing

  01.24.10 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Travel is all about doing new things, meeting people you never knew existed, seeing things you’d never even thought of. People, I have had a Kuala Lumpur revelation: I have seen fresh baby corn. For real! Who knew that stuff didn’t naturally grow in cans? Not I! Kuala Lumpur is not, in my opinion, a [...]

  

• animals, entrees, holidays, out and about, restaurants, Shanghai, Thanksgiving

  Generous George and the Eight Chinchilla Souls

  11.22.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Most holidays that last longer than a day require some sort of fasting or deprivation. Passover: no leavened bread. Lent: Give something up. Ramadan: Fast all day. Off the top of my head, I can think of two exceptions: Hanukkah, in its eight latke-filled days and nights, and Thanksgiving. At the moment you may be [...]

  

• entrees, fish, Korea, mysterious ingredients, out and about, Seoul, travel

  Conseoulidation

  10.13.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  The limit of the human stomach is one of life’s greatest tragedies. Some lament 24 hours in a day, I lament 2,000 calories in a day. Don’t think I can’t push it to at least twice that, but eventually physical limitations and the outside forces of clothing waistlines impose restrictions. Though the Namdaemun market pushed [...]

  

• huzhou, less food-related, out and about, teaching

  EIEI-Oh God

  11.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I was kind of feeling sorry for myself last weekend. TJ went to Hangzhou to see his girlfriend and the other laowai were scattered around Suzhou and Shanghai, so the foreigner population decreased about 80 percent. I had the privilege of remaining in Huzhou and teaching two classes on Saturday at some “International Training Center,” [...]

  

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