Oct 15, 2011
A MIAMI YOM KIPPUR FOR A GOOD JEWISH NEW YEAR 5772
This has been an incredibly good evening. Before going to the Yom Kippur Evening Services at the Temple Israel, we decided to have dinner at Soyka. As if it was…
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.
Oct 15, 2011
American Ingenuity or Two Dollar A day Chinese Workforce?
STEVE JOBS, AMERICAN INGENUITY, TWO DOLLAR A DAY CHINESE WORKFORCE ON WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU? This week, the Jewish High Holiday week has been full of news of all sorts.…
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…
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
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
DONT LISTEN TO PROFESSIONAL NUTRITIONAL ADVICE; IMITATE THE FRENCH
Dont listen to the nutritional advice you see on the Internet or from a person to whom you pay to hear it.. just watch the french eat.. why is that…
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…
Oct 15, 2011
VISIT THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF USA..outsiders made welcome here
Despite my repeated visits to this sprawling country and the remoteness of some of my destinations, Eagle Pass, Texas Walthill, Nebraska Eagle Butte, South Dakota; I am amazed at the…
Oct 15, 2011
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK… Cherry Creek, South Dakota
in travel forums like The VirtualTourist, i see people wanting to go to Off the beaten track, for me , they exist everywhere, not only in cheap countries which are…
Sep 15, 2011
Maroosh Lebanese Restaurant in Coral Gables, Miami
Nutrition has entered the mainstream discourse in America. There is so much written about food, nutrition, dieting and wonderful drugs that would burn your excess weight What people do not…
Sep 15, 2011
Philosophy of the man in seat 4 D LH 747-400
Philosophy of the man in Seat 4 D This year, for unknown reasons, I had been assigned to seat 4 D on Lufthansa long haul flights, usually to Asia. It…
Sep 15, 2011
THE TOLERANCE IN INDIA
After a morning pleasantly attending to Hearing tests and Dental cleansing, the anticipated lunch time arrived. Empire Resto is a very Kerala oriented resto with an ambience of an up…
Sep 15, 2011
The Metaphor of Lotus in India
I have been visiting this part of India, in reality, one house in an area lying outside a major city, once a year, for reasons of umbilical remembrances. The person…
Sep 15, 2011
BAD MEALS IN BANGALORE
AT LAST A GOOD MEAL IN BANGALORE The last time I visited Bangalore was in February of 2010. This time was a visit of 4 days and here are some…
Sep 15, 2011
Dr Jagdeesh and his Elegant Dental Team in Bangalore INDIA
During many years of my peripatetic wanderings as a Humanitarian Physician, one aspect of self care was often neglected: Dental Care. I shudder to think the state of affairs of…
Sep 15, 2011
FAKE YOGIS OF THE WEST
Fake Yogis from the West Having recently come across some Yoga students and Practitioners from the West who had been wandering around India, I have decided to follow an American…
Sep 15, 2011
MALACCA THE BIRTHPLACE OF MALAYSIA
It does feel good to be back in Malacca. a certain tranquility not to be found in KL or Singapour, which lies 2-3 hours away on either side of Malacca.…
Sep 15, 2011
From ONE home in ASIA to another in EUROPE
10 am at Heathrow terminal 4 11 am at Paris CDG 1700 in KL Singapour 5 am in La Habana, Miami The flight from Paris to London was delayed because…