Dec 15, 2018
JOURNEY TO THE INDIANS
I was not prepared for this weather -4 C .. I had left the balmy Havana streets and the parque and my good friends and I arrived at Omaha Airport…
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.
Dec 15, 2018
SUGAR IN THE COCA COLA HOW DO YOU WANT IT ?
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2018/12/sugar-in-coca-cola-how-do-you-want-it.html
Dec 15, 2018
REDUCING INFLAMMATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS THROUGH NUTRITION
It is not very often that I quote another article verbatim as the one below. A while ago, I was talking to my colleagues and when I mentioned that Inflammation…
Dec 15, 2018
MY FIRST TRIP ON GEORGIAN AIRWAYS PARIS TO TBILISI TO TEL AVIV
I do not make my travel plans far in advance and this time of the year is dreadful for spontaneous travel. I wanted to go from Miami to Brussels, spend…
Dec 15, 2018
FOOD INSECURITY AND PRE DIABETES .. YET ANOTHER SOCIAL CONNECTION FOR INCREASING INCIDENCE OF DIABETEES
I have always maintained that DIABETES type 2 i a social disease and its ravenous increase world wide is the confirmation of the social influences on its prevalence. I am…
Dec 15, 2018
A BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL BY THE SEA IN FORT COCHIN KERALA
One becomes aware of the cohesiveness of the staff here at the HOTEL, which has come home to me while I am in Fort Cochin. (to me to include Ernakulum…
Dec 15, 2018
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA AND THE END OF THE YEAR 2018
After a disastrous New Years Eve party in the home of a neighbour in Havana in 2016, I ha decided I would choose carefully where I wish to be at…
Dec 15, 2018
FIRST TRIP OF 2019 HAS BEGUN THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST
I am waiting to check in to Georgian Airlines counter which does not open for another hour or so at Terminal 2 D, the poor cousin to the other luxurious…
Nov 15, 2018
A GREAT HONOUR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEMORY OF THE GREATEST ADMIRAL OF THE SEVEN SEAS CHENG HO/ZHENG HE
I cannot remember when I first heard about Cheng HO, the greatest navigator who travelled the realms of the Ming dynasty over the course of many journeys, as far as…
Nov 15, 2018
HOW INDIA SAVED MY BURMESE BROTHER KO MMMT
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Nov 15, 2018
I AM IN LOVE WITH ………QATAR AIRWAYS
My first flight with Qatar Airways was in February 2014, I think: IAH DOH CGK DOH BRU. Since then I have made every attempt to fly QR Qatar Airways when…
Nov 15, 2018
2018 A GOOD YEAR OF TRAVELS AMERICAS EUROPE MIDDLE EAST ASIA
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Nov 15, 2018
BREAKFAST AT HOME IN HAVANA
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Nov 15, 2018
HAVANA NIGHTS LA NOCHE DE LA HABANA
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Nov 15, 2018
THE MOVEABLE FEAST THAT IS HAVANA
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Nov 15, 2018
READING PADURA IN LA HABANA
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Nov 15, 2018
PAYING RESPECTS TO THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN ELIAS JOSEPHAI BABU
ELIAS JOSEPHAI, currently the best known COCHINI JEW in the world (check for him in Google, Youtube, BBC etc) is based in Ernakulam near his beloved synagogue which had been…
Nov 15, 2018
FLYING AMERICAN AIRLINES : LOYALTY STILL MATTERS
I used to be a loyal Delta Airlines flier and when they changed their Frequent Flier programme, I switched to United Airlines and when they devalued their programme switched to…