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Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 2
Continuing our Lenten foray through fish cookery in Asia … Singapore, Asam Fish (in tamarind sauce) Pepes Ikan Bumbu Merah/Steamed Whole Fish with Red Sauce Laos, fermented fish sauce Korea, sea...
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A Case of Culinary Illiteracy
Blackboard menu, Chiang Mai, Thailand. A question of pointing and hoping for the best. (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) It wasn’t just the Thai language and its lacy script that rendered me illiterate. So...
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Vestiges of European Colonialism
Near the former British Consular Building, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) As anyone who reads this blog knows, I harbor a certain fascination for the colonial period of world history...
View ArticleTraveling Back in Time: Memories of Wet Markets – COVID-19 Isolation, Day 52
Like most of you, I am getting a bit off kilter here. I mean, after all it is Day 52 for me in COVID-19 lockdown. But I broke that run of strict isolation today. I didn’t want to. But I had to. This...
View ArticleMemory, My Old Friend
As Notre Dame burned on the night of April 15, 2019, all my memories of Paris converged, accordion-like, folding inward, into that deep place of mine where not much gets in. Sobs, tears, disbelief....
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