Jan 15, 2012
Shopping for Cuban Friends and Family in Bangalore
My friends in Bangalore always joke that I am buying things that is not in great demand locally. But little do they know where these gifts are destined to: The…
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Medical Themes: <span>Food Culture</span>
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Dec 15, 2011
Gauguin Pont Avon Breton Biscuits and Chocolates
GAUGUIN AMBIENTE GALETAS Y PINTURAS PONT AVON In the 19 th century, American artists not having a school of paintings to belong to flocked to France. They found Pont Avon,…
Dec 15, 2011
UmonHon to Bretons via Los Cubanos
It has been an unusually mild winter week in the North Eastern Corner of Nebraska. I left at 11 am from the Blue House, while the skies were cloudless and…
Dec 15, 2011
Warm Welcome to San Augustin de Laredo, Fundado en 1755
Bienvenidos a San Augustin de Laredo, fundado 1755 on the banks of Rio Grande. (Rio Bravo). Currently part of the State of Texas and thus United States of America Laredo…
Dec 15, 2011
Dont Blame Fidel Castro for Heart Disease in Cuba!
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE How wrong are the Epidemiologists? Troubadours of Tragedy or what Fidel and Breast Cancer have in common? We are constantly bombarded with…
Dec 15, 2011
The Modern Myth of Cholesterol..Do we need Sherlock Holmes?
THE STORY OF CHOLESTEROL, WE DO NEED A SHERLOCK HOLMES HERE… While writing this, I was reminded so much of one of my good teachers in Endocrinology, Dr Eric Reiss,…
Nov 15, 2011
Advance Australia Fair.. not for the Pommies it looks like
Increasing number of British Migrants are leaving Australia to go HOME! Something like this would have been unheard of when we were growing up..What has happened? Has Oz gone sour?…
Nov 15, 2011
The Delights of Being in CUBA…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It is 1 AM in the morning and we have just finished our conversations, covering a myriad of subjects and the entire…
Nov 15, 2011
INTENSE DAYS IN LA HABANA,CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INTENSE DAYS IN LA HABANA How does a society affect the character of individuals in that society, such that he or she…
Oct 15, 2011
Quiberon, almost as if I am back in OZ
Many years later while walking in solitude along the streets of Palermo in BA, I used to think of the innocent days in Melbourne,where I thought the flowers had the…
Oct 15, 2011
The Long Way Home from the Blue House: The Vagaries of Travel
Because y itineraries and plans change without much notice or plans, I end up in journeys longer than planned. Take this last one for example. To get back home to…
Oct 15, 2011
We will always have Paris..Indians need you now
I have had a long and fruitful association with some tribes of North American Indians. In the years I have been coming to see them on a regular basis, I…