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Christmas in India 2008-12-14 22:48:02 Trees adorned with lights, candles and lamps in the window, strings of paper lanterns cut into intricate patterns - all around the world, Christmas
is one of the many human holidays that celebrates the return of light to the world. For Christians this light is believed to be God’s light as witnessed in the birth of Jesus. [...] Read more:India
An Ode to Arab Cookery 2008-12-08 21:42:09 For those of you who think I’ve made an error in omitting the Levant States from The Silk Road Gourmet - you might be right. Originally, I intended to do a follow on to The Silk Road Gourmet that treated the cuisines of the Maghreb and Levant, but the more cooking I do from these [...] Read more:Cookery
The Goddess of Food 2008-11-30 17:52:27 Not Julia Child. Not Martha Stewart or Nigella Lawson,* and certainly not Rachael Ray. I’m talking Annapurna, Demeter, Ceres, Ukemochi-no-kami and Chicomecoatl . . . the goddesses of food and hospitality. Almost every culture has one. Some cultures have more than one: She who keeps the pots and the bellies full of nourishing food. She [...] Read more:Goddess
A Silk Road Gourmet Thanksgiving 2008-11-16 18:20:40 With the US’s Thanksgiving
Day rapidly approaching, I thought I’d offer a few recipes from the first volume of The Silk Road Gourmet to help you blend Silk Road cookery with traditional fare for the holiday feast. The first recipe and centerpiece of the meal is to be found in Iran’s wonderful Lamb with Cardamom [...]
The Great Silk Road 2008-11-09 16:33:12 Several readers have commented that they have been surprised at all of the countries that I’ve included in the Silk Road Gourmet and in the blog. Being used to only considering the northern land route from Xi’an to the Caucasus as the Silk Road, some folks are amazed to learn of the many other land [...] Read more:Great
Two Egypts 2008-10-26 13:55:43 I remember being mesmerized by this scene as I walked through the maze of temples on the Eastern bank of the Nile. The harsh mid-morning light blazing down on the monument made the contrast of the centuries all the more obvious. Into the ancient rocks a record of the triumph of the Egypt over an [...]
Traveling in Time 2008-10-15 14:47:22 This boy – this glorious boy – followed me through the southern Bangladeshi village trailed by a gaggle of children. He was determined to do a traditional dance for me and to get me to photograph him – and his friends said that I would never do it. He trailed me and tapped on my [...] Read more:Traveling
Recipe: Lamb Kebabs with Star Anise and Mint 2008-10-04 17:13:47 I’ve had a major change of scenery lately that involves getting up at five and out to a job that I love but that is far from home. No more getting paid to write big thoughts at the kitchen table and subsequently less time for the blog as well.
To celebrate the change, I’m calling all readers [...] Read more:Kebabs
Food for Thought 2008-09-29 19:38:20 Food is power. We don’t think about this in the bountiful west very often except perhaps on the rare occasion when stuck for a long time behind a woman with WIC coupons in the grocery line as she purchases infant formula and arrowroot biscuits with large individual coupons that must be tallied separately so Uncle [...]
“Nothing but people and most of them were starving. . .” 2008-09-20 16:06:36 The child before me lies still as stone on a black plastic mattress. He doesn’t stir or even acknowledge my presence as I count the number of times he breathes in half a minute.
There is a large hole cut in the mattress and a basin underneath that catches his excrement along with the flood of [...] Read more:Nothing
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