Jan 15, 2008
Malaysian Dilemma Explained by someone who loves Malaysia
The purpose of the trip to Asia in December had been, Food,Friends and Far East. I had gone there especially to see and spend time with Nga in HoChiMinh, Ko…
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.
Jan 15, 2008
Centuries Covered in One Day
ONE DAY, FOUR COUNTRIES From VijayaVarman II to Annadurai, Comrade Anna of Dravida Muneta Kadakam, the pan Dravidian movement based in Madras, India. It is IX Century, an Immigrant South…
Jan 15, 2008
Dear Friends It Is Not Very Often That
Dear Friends, It is not very often that you receive an email from NEGARA BRUNEI DARULSALAAM, the place of Peace, a small country situated in BORNEO, right on the Equator……
Jan 15, 2008
A day of Healing at a Native American Indian Clinic
A Day of Healing at a Clinic for Native Americans Barely thirty, JWE, now sits in front of you, a wasted life, his limbs a metaphor for that waste. Bites…
Jan 15, 2008
The False TAINOS of Baracoa and CUBA
Written in conjunction with and presented at International meeting of SOLAR in Rio de Janeiro Dr Sudha Yehuda Kovesh S and Dr Ivette Garcia (currently a Cuban diplomat assigned to…
Dec 15, 2007
Chico and Chucho at Hotel Allison Genesis, Kuala Lumpur
An open minded traveler attracts human interactions The lunch was sumptuous. Sera Nyonya Restaurant at Hotel Equatorial in Malacca. Chef Bong and his assistant Yenny. Ohtak, Lychee Asam Boi, Cili…
Nov 15, 2007
It Is 2 35 Am In Paris 8 35 Pm In Miami
It is 2 35 am in Paris, 8 35 pm in Miami, 7 35 pm in Winnebago and 5 35 pm in Yakima. The night of 21st/22nd October 2007. I…
Nov 15, 2007
Globalization Will Not Eradicate
Globalization will not eradicate Prejudices Competence, Efficiency and Education will! Or Why we need Israel to train security agents worldwide. Rainy end of October day. 0730 AM. Steady drizzle. Not…
Nov 15, 2007
Where am I?
WHERE AM I? When you order a coffee at one of the elegant salons in this city, the capital of a country that produces no coffee, a tasty morsel of…
Nov 15, 2007
Friends, Food and Far East
FRIENDS, FOOD AND FAR EAST TRAVELS OF DR SUDAH YEHUDA KOVESH SHAHEB DECEMBER 2007 Shuttling between La Habana, Cuba; Miami, Florida and Paris, France, in addition to participating at professional…
Sep 15, 2007
Living in more than two places
trying to live in more than one place, takes a little bit of planning..what shall I travel with? where shall I leave my toiletries? you begin to accumulate more than…
Sep 15, 2007
Meals to Miami
I have been fortunate enough to travel a little bit, more by design than by choice and over the years, one picks up certain whims and fancies. Travelling by Business…
Jun 15, 2007
Maqroll El Gaviero Judio
A tale of a wandering Jew. Dedicated to Maqroll the Gaviero, an imagination of Alvaro Mutis. Though his life was devoid of danger, unless you call fifteen foot waves in…
Jun 15, 2007
The Nightingale of Zanzibar
On my first visit to Zanzibar, I had journeyed there from South Africa. At the end of a long flight from Atlanta to Cape Town, my good friend was waiting…
Jun 15, 2007
A Dream Dreaming of Itself..Musings from Paris
Friday, 1 June 2007 A young Arab French girl with a visible bulging belly and her hair dyed blonde serves me a glass of house wine. As happens in the…
Jun 15, 2007
Gracias Hermanos Mexicanos
Today I had spent a considerable time discussing spiritedly how to improve the care of chronic illnesses such as Diabetes among the Indians who live in these desolate plains in…