May 15, 2026
The Sweet Ethos of Suriname
A reflection on Suriname’s food culture, hospitality, and the sweetness that carries through daily life.
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Jun 15, 2022
THE SURINAMESE ARE VERY POLITE PEOPLE… ALL RACES ..
Once you arrive in Suriname, you have to get used to the various languages and various cultures. Each of the cultural groups maintain their individual identity while being proud of…
Sep 15, 2025
The Magnet of Alligator Alcatraz
A political and anthropological reflection shaped by Suriname, migration, medicine, and the pull of difficult places.
Apr 15, 2024
FLOWERS IN BLOOM AT THE FAIRCHILD TROPICAL GARDENS IN MIAMI FLORIDA IN MARCH APRIL 2024
Some flowers in bloom now at the Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Miami, Florida Poinsettia is a commercially important flowering plant (euphorbia) indigenous to Mexico and Central America Brazil Raintree, native…
Aug 15, 2022
EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE RAPID CHANGES OCCURRING IN THE PLANET SOCIETY
The temperature outside is a pleasant 20 C, much cooler than the 34 C, in this presqu'île de Quiberon, Brittany. A very good article arrived from The New York Times,…
Jul 15, 2022
CAPITALISM OR GREED. PRICING OF MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE USA
For a rich and developed country (slipping in the ranks as days roll by and other progressive countries are stepping in), USA has one of the most complicated medical care…
Jul 15, 2022
CONGRATULATIONS FOUNDATION DAY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT DR HARISINGH GOUR VISHWAVIDYALAY, SAGAR MP INDIA
THANKS TO MY FRIEND DR. BIJAYA FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment .…
Jun 15, 2022
NOTHING IS CHEAP, EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE.. LESSON FROM THE RECEPTIONIST AT HOTEL PALACIO PARAMARIBO
During my short stay in Paramaribo, i had many conversations with this Jawanese Surinamese lady who directed me to deGadri resto by the river for surinamese food and also to…
Jun 15, 2022
YOU SEEM JOLLY, HOW OLD ARE YOU ?
Surinamese are very friendly, and the receptionists at the Hotel Palacio in Paramaribo were no exception. I have been looking forward to escaping from the narrow-mindedness of the discourse in…
Jun 15, 2022
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A TRAVEL SECRET ? IN THIS HEMISPHERE? PARAMARIBO
As a child I was very keen on Geography and knew about the three GUYANAs.. British, Dutch and the French. The French Guyanne is still part of France and the…
May 15, 2021
WHO WAS ISAAC THE JEW OF CALICUT AND COCHIN OF LATE 18TH CENTURY ?
While looking for evidence of some jewish connection to Tipu Sultan of Mysore, I came across the name of Isaac the Jew. His name appears in multiple documents, in Dutch…
Feb 15, 2021
ALTA GRACIA. THANKS FOR THE FEELINGS OF LOVE
Every Monday morning, the music streaming service, selects algorithmically based on my past listening habits, songs which are new to me and it is a pleasure to discover International Singers…
Dec 15, 2011
THE TRIBE OF MALABARS
The Tribe of Malabars During a recent conversation in Paris, I was told by a Reunionese that she belonged to a Tribe of Malabars from the Island of Reunion. My…
Oct 15, 2011
Learn to Love your Brothers and Sisters.. they are everywhere
One of the images burnt in my memory is that of an Israeli soldier carrying an elderly Ethiopian Jewish woman, during the clandestine airlifting of 10 000 Ethiopian Jews to…
Mar 15, 2011
A Visit to the British Museum: Grandeur and Longing
thai golden café, museum street, central London visit to the british museum the same imposing columns, that greeted a young medical student from the antipodes you enter, the first turn…