Valentine’s Day, Apolo Ohno’s 6th medal in a kick-ass race (did you see his semi-final run?), Chinese New Year – it was a busy weekend! And a busy eating weekend.
While Ohno gets his rush from speeding like a maniac on steel blades, some of us find pleasure in things a bit less…fast. Food carries much [...]
Valentine’s Day is coming up…need something to spice it up? This year, Valentine’s Day is also Chinese New Year (it comes on a different day every year so it’s a bit of a moving target), so I get to cheat.
I get to restart my resolutions and celebrate TWO New Year’s (what kind of cheating were [...]
If you’ve been following, you know I live in the South. But I’m a New Englander, raised in a place where “snow day” means you better dress warm because you still have to wait for the schoolbus at the corner, only there’s about 2 feet of snow and sideways sleet hitting your face.
I miss it.
But [...]
When I was little, I LOVED McDonald’s Happy Meals – the boxes with the yellow ‘M’ handle and the little plastic-wrapped plastic decoder or plastic figurine of something or other.
Source: The Motherload
Yes, I went to McDonald’s three times when I was in India because I’ll admit, the McAloo and fries were really, really good there. [...]
As many of us try around this time of year to make resolutions to eat better, swear less, save more, stress less, and exercise more, many of us are also probably going to break these resolutions a couple weeks from now. Certainly, by the time the Cherry Blossoms come out in Washington, DC, the majority [...]
When I had the opportunity to go to Tibet, I jumped at it. In recent years, there have been a lot of romanticization about Tibet. It’s been trendy to put prayer flags on front porches, talk about the Dalai Lama, and fantasize that it is a country of yogis and vegan Buddhists.
Lhasa is an incredible [...]
We are excited to feature our first guest contributor: Crystal! We hope to see her more often here – she’s quite an accomplished photographer and has a strange obsession for bread and bakeries and all the mysteries that emerge from the hours before the sun breaks for a new day…or year. Happy New Year! – [...]
Now that I’m 10 pounds heavier, I hope all of you celebrated with good food wherever you were and with whomever.
I had a quiet, lovely holiday with Cake Mountain Man and our dear friend, L. Our Christmas dinner was capped by L’s Cornish Game Hens with homemade gravy and butternut squash stuffing…
…and his HOMEMADE pumpkin [...]
Buddhist monk in silent prayer.
One of my dreams is to take the Transiberian Railway one day. I was even once told by an international education “expert” that it would be a good idea to take the Transiberian Railroad to Nepal. Well, I didn’t take the Transiberia to Nepal…I had to fly via India because well, the Transiberian Railway runs [...]
