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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
I have been very fortunate to be associated with the Native peoples of the USA which is often referred to as Turtle Island. During my conversations with knowledgeable elders, they…
AZEMMOUR , city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In the 15 th century Azemmour was a free city with 20,000 inhabitants, of whom 2,500 were Jews, mainly occupied as…
Today has turned out to be a very pleasant day.. I do not pay much attention to the Valentine's Day hype in the West but in Cuba this day is…
For people interested in Moroccan Jewry, the name Haim Pinto would ring a bell.. the revered Rabbi Haim Pinto lived in Essouira and is buried there. His grandson was also…
Once you taste the benefits of higher levels of Frequent Flier Status, retaining it becomes a type of obsession. You begin to dream of impractical voyages and excuciating journeys and…
I have never been to a city where every single available public place is crammed with either tables and stalls set up to sell a wide variety of things or…
I have been extremely pleased with this stay at the Executive Lounge with an associated stay at a room nearby. I had arrived in KL from Havana/Miami with no specific…
A full day at Erridah in the island of Djerba, home of the DjerbaHood (as in neighbourhood )
One gets the feeling that the life has not changed very much in this jewish neighbourhood of Houmt Souk for many years. The trading significance of Houmt Souk has been…
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A mezuzah ( Hebrew : מְזוּזָה "doorpost"; plural: מְזוּזוֹת mezuzot ) is a piece of parchment , known as a klaf , contained in a decorative case and inscribed…
It was a good day to leave Miami. The food, the social isolation and the general dislike of Cubans vs Others, occasionally bordering on hatred was weighing upon me. Got…
It was late evening and felt trying out the Kosher places in Djerbahood in Erriadh, 7 km south of Houmt Souk and within walking distance of the famous El Ghriba…
As soon as I was ready to leave the hotel, my first destinatinm in Tunis was Cafe Corse on rue Lénine... Each time I am in Tunis, I make a…
One of the favourite pastimes in the western world is to predict the weather or repeat the drastic prediction made by slender, flimsily clad "certified meterologists" (whatever that is ).…
I am writing this at a largely faded but glorious suite of a hotel built in 1914 in the French Art Nouveaux style in the city of Tunis which once…
On my first ever visit to Tunis, I was told of rue Le Caire with restaurants and when i went there, i was more than pleased that they were all…
A CENTURY OF HISTORY In 1913, when its construction was completed, the Majestic Hotel, then, unique Palace of the capital, was the property of René Kisraoui. Commandeered from November 1942…
