"Tasting it to the streets..."
When I was an undergraduate student at Bryn Mawr, I remember reading Edward Saïd s Orientalism and having my mind blown. It has colored my perspective of the world ever since. One of the things I love best about food writing Continue reading
I love fried chicken. It s one of the things that I feel betrays my true Thai-ness. I mean, I may not really act like a Thai person, or speak Thai perfectly, but at least I eat like a Thai person. Continue reading
People say that the best thing about travel is how it teaches you about yourself. After one month on the road in southern Italy, I can confidently say that I have truly learned a lot, and that lot is this: Continue reading
A long long time ago, in a country far far away, I went to a Steely Dan concert. It was a gift (bought voluntarily, and out of the blue) from my then-boyfriend, during a visit to his family home in Continue reading
In spite of all of the guides I ve published about traversing the length and breadth of Thailand for good street food, I d never been to Songkhla, a province set like a cap over the three southernmost Thai provinces of Pattani, Continue reading
Another week, another outrage-generated Twitter discourse, and this time, it s not about food. Instead, it s about the only subject that is truly in my wheelhouse, the only thing that would spur me to drag myself off of my couch and Continue reading
It s been a little over a week since my knee surgery, and since then I ve mostly been relegated to hanging out at my house, Jimmy Stewart-in- Rear-Window -style. Like Jimmy Stewart, I have been left to my own devices, entertainment-wise. Unlike Jimmy Continue reading
If you follow astrology, you will have read that there is a big shift in the world from the sun exiting Capricorn and entering Aquarius. Of course, if you follow the news, you are already well-aware that a big shift Continue reading
I briefly found myself in my old neighborhood and passed by a place called Lomo occupying the former No Idea restaurant space. It had the look of a South Pacific-style restaurant in the vein of Trader Vic s, and relishing the Continue reading
I have, sadly, been up to my neck in edits (some of which are in our upcoming cookbook). This is widely recognized, I believe, to be the most tedious part of the getting-a-book-you-wrote-onto-a-bookstore-shelf process. Because I have been busy pinpointing Continue reading