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 am not sure when I first heard the phrase, Coincidences do not exist but much sonorous in Spanish, Casualidad no es tan Casual..but one thing for sure. It was…
Am I off key to anticipate my flights on QR Qatar Airways? I look forward to my QR flights and on this morning, Madrid to Doha and then on to…
I was visiting my friends BB and D who live in a small village of Sankt Mikael near the small town of Bleiburg along the Austrian alps. Both are natives…
WHAT A LOVELY END Loves have only grown.. CUBA my home, the numerous brothers and sister that I toil for.. a glass of Chenin Blanc from an Indian winery, ah…
After I had delivered a talk at the annual conference of Endocrinology in 2019, an Argentine doctor said she needed an explanation: This is my first visit to Cuba, she…
I had been looking forward to my return to the island, with a brief sojourn in Miami where I enjoyed spending a couple of days in the Everglades National Park.…
When I was finishing my post graduate studies in Medicine (Endocrinology) my contemporaries were busy scouting for future residences and private practices. I was intent on an International Career which…
our beloved SARAH is no more! I received three emails from Cochin today 30.08.2019 informing me that she had passed away. So many images passed through my mind. Jew Town…
The morning was rather tender, the sun never shone so horridly that one takes refuge, and the day slipped into the afternoon, the tropics which are like hammocks for lovers…
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When my good friend Dr Jim Kerr from South Dakota came to visit me in Miami, he quipped: You are homeless but certainly Upper Class.. he was not thinking of…
FROM BBC FOOD Will a daily dose of fermented foods boost your health? Fermented foods such as kimchi and kefir are on the up – the worldwide market is expected…
Last night in conversation, Pablo Neruda's name came up again,as I was describing my recent trip to Myanmar. I have written many times before about Pablo, Rangoon, Josie Bliss all…
The gastronomy of this small town now a city of about 250 000 inhabitants and about 2 plus million visitors reflect the other geopolitical factors that affect travel to Angkor…
MAKE NEW FRIENDS OF COURSE .. The day begins of course with a nice breakfast.. But the time difference between Cuba and Cambodia is 11 hours, so I had to…
Two large studies from France and Spain has shown an association between ULTRA PROCESSED food and cardiovascular diseases and early mortality. and chronic diseases such as Cancer and Diabetes We…
The rain began falling suddenly and the thunder was deafening, truly and figuratively. Everything was in a swaying motion, leaves falling, rain travelling horizontally. I was sitting at a side…
