I admit it, I’ve been kinda addicted to the Olympics. Who knew watching skiing and shooting could be so fascinating? Well, the 2010 Olympics is coming to a close, and Vancouver has certainly showed herself to be a wonderful hostess.
I had the fortune to visit and eat my way through Vancouver last year, and truly, [...]
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 [...]
As many of you know, I had spent much of this past year working in India. The food in India is splendid. SPLENDID. But that’s because I got to eat.
In the minds of many Americans, India is the exotic land of Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood dancers, and romantic ashrams of Eat, Pray, Love lore. Along with [...]
Popular local soft drink in India…bought and bottled by the Coca Cola Company.
I convinced my friends ZomppaB and ZomppaPatty to buy pressure cookers. It has been more than two months and I know that it still remains in their original packages tucked somewhere in their kitchen cupboard, amongst the unused impulse buy kitchen gadgets/utensils. Both ZomppaPatty and ZomppaB commented on how they were afraid of using the [...]
In the U.S., immigrants have forever shaped and influenced American cuisine. It is often difficult to separate what is American and what is “foreign,” or perhaps, what makes American cuisine so unique is that there is no need for separation. The complexities and diversity of food is what makes eating in the U.S. so interesting. [...]
Pan, pao, bao, pav…whether Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, India, the word for bread seems similar across cultures and languages. Most cultures have some sort of bread – flatbreads, buns, baguettes – and breaking bread is not an unfamiliar term. You eat together, you are no longer strangers.
Indian breads are numerous and they also vary by [...]
There is an art form with eating with your hands here in the state of Gujarat. You use your right hand to eat and your left for water. Typically, you wash your hands before and after with lemon and water. To pick up the food, you press and rip off the roti or puri or [...]
By now you know I am in the state of Gujarat, in the Western part of India. Gujurati food is known to be sweeter than other parts of India and due to the influence of Hinduism and Jainism, it is almost vegetarian – and for someone who didn’t eat vegetables for most of her life, [...]
When it’s an average of 106F and the sun is full every day…all day…and the only respite is around midnight when the temperature drops to a balmy 95F, what else can you do but eat ice cream?
I have not done any form of exercise in four weeks nor do I pretend. I sweat by just [...]
