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Idylls of Cuisine, #47
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] Posted in Cooking, Haiti, Photography Tagged: Cooks, Earthquake, Food Photography, Haiti, United Nations
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Coconut Groves and Coconut Dreams
Going for the Coconuts in Haiti (Photo credit: C. Bertelsen) “Columbus had no idea, of course, of the almost infinite ramifications of his voyages on the way future people would eat.” ‑‑Raymond...
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Inroads of Language, Basted with the Stiff-Necked Grip of French Cuisine
The reach of France’s colonial empire extended far beyond a few fur trappers and Hollywood’s stereotype of exhausted men, rubbing at their scraggly beards, cursing their conscription into the Foreign...
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Remembering Haiti Post-Carnival (Kanaval)
Haitian Carnival Masks In March 2011, Japan suffered an 8.9 earthquake, a magnitude not often experienced. While the massive earthquake last year in Haiti was less on the Richter scale, it nonetheless...
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Breadfruit: Blight of Captain Bligh
Captain William Bligh When Captain James Cook entrusted thirty-three-year-old William Bligh (at the time a Commanding Lieutenant) with the HM Armed Vessel Bounty in 1787, breadfruit — not adventure —...
View ArticleEat a Meal of Solidarity: Haiti’s Sos Pwa Rouj
As in a nightmare wrought by Quentin Tarantino, I watched the horrors unfolding in Haiti after the earthquake. Hands tied, unable to help in any major way, I turned to my pantry, memories of the lovely...
View ArticleHaiti is NOT a Shithole, Mr. Trump
Haiti is NOT a shithole, Mr. Trump. I should know about that. I lived in Haiti for nearly three years. And you, you’ve never even been there. And yet, here you are again, saying something insulting and...
View ArticleIn Haiti, The Four Horsemen Strike Again
Surely all of you now know about the latest disaster to hit Haiti — an earthquake of 7.0 hit Haiti at about 4 PM on January 12, 2010, followed by aftershocks of 5.5 and 5.9. The damage to...
View ArticleMemories of Chaos: Reflecting on Dictatorship
There’s something very disturbing to me about witnessing 20,000 armed soldiers in the U.S. Capitol building. Why? Perhaps this story might explain why. At least partially. I lived on an island in the...
View ArticleHospitality, a Forgotten Concept in Today’s World: A Tale of Ice Cubes
Open-air markets symbolize community to me. Time as commodity – which is how we view it in this country – disappears in the hustle and bustle of these markets. What matters is relationships between...
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Uniformed men on horseback, lassos at the ready, chase brown and black people stumbling in the surging water of the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas. The photographs shock. They call up long-buried...
View ArticleMidwest Book Review on “Stoves & Suitcases”
My newest book garnered the following review from Midwest Book Review:* Stoves & Suitcases: Searching for Home in the World’s Kitchens should be in the holdings of any collection strong in culinary...
View ArticleEpis, the Haitian Condiment You Never Knew You Needed
Haiti, it is said, is the place to discover how much can be done with little. ~ Wade Davis Like Julia Child with her sole meunière at La Coronne in Rouen, I remember the first meal I ate in...
View ArticleRemembering Haiti Post-Carnival (Kanaval)
In March 2011, Japan suffered an 8.9 earthquake, a magnitude not often experienced. While the massive earthquake last year in Haiti was less on the Richter scale, it nonetheless did terrible damage...
View ArticleHaiti is NOT a Shithole, Mr. Trump
Haiti is NOT a shithole, Mr. Trump. I should know about that. I lived in Haiti for nearly three years. And you, you’ve never even been there. And yet, here you are again, saying something insulting and...
View ArticleMemories of Chaos: Reflecting on Dictatorship
There’s something very disturbing to me about witnessing 20,000 armed soldiers in the U.S. Capitol building. Why? Perhaps this story might explain why. At least partially. I lived on an island in the...
View ArticleHospitality, a Forgotten Concept in Today’s World: A Tale of Ice Cubes
Open-air markets symbolize community to me. Time as commodity – which is how we view it in this country – disappears in the hustle and bustle of these markets. What matters is relationships between...
View ArticleOn the Borderlands
Uniformed men on horseback, lassos at the ready, chase brown and black people stumbling in the surging water of the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas. The photographs shock. They call up long-buried...
View ArticleMidwest Book Review on “Stoves & Suitcases”
My newest book garnered the following review from Midwest Book Review:* Stoves & Suitcases: Searching for Home in the World’s Kitchens should be in the holdings of any collection strong in culinary...
View ArticleEpis, the Haitian Condiment You Never Knew You Needed
Haiti, it is said, is the place to discover how much can be done with little. ~ Wade Davis Like Julia Child with her sole meunière at La Coronne in Rouen, I remember the first meal I ate in...
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