Oct 15, 2019
ARAB OR ARABESQUE FOOD IN COCHIN KERALA
ARABIC STYLE FOOD IN COCHIN, KERALA The name of the restaurant was attractive enough, ZATAAR, the herb mentioned in the Jewish scriptures, which in Israel one uses in abundance. Mr…
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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.
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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, 2019
MAGICAL REALISM IN FORT COCHIN
In India there has been a proliferation of book publishing and new and newer authors are constantly being discovered. Also the prices of books are very reasonable and who could…
Aug 15, 2019
SARAH COHEN OF JEW STREET, JEW TOWN, MATTANCHERRY, COCHIN, KERALA INIDA 30AUG2019
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…
Dec 15, 2018
A BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL BY THE SEA IN FORT COCHIN KERALA
One becomes aware of the cohesiveness of the staff here at the HOTEL, which has come home to me while I am in Fort Cochin. (to me to include Ernakulum…
Nov 15, 2018
PAYING RESPECTS TO THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN ELIAS JOSEPHAI BABU
ELIAS JOSEPHAI, currently the best known COCHINI JEW in the world (check for him in Google, Youtube, BBC etc) is based in Ernakulam near his beloved synagogue which had been…
Oct 15, 2018
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF YOUR VISIT TO COCHIN? ASKED THE IMMIGRATION AGENT
After a very pleasant two days in Fort Cochin, I was about to leave Cochin, Kerala in India for Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I handed my passport to the middle…
Oct 15, 2018
IN THIS LAND OF SPIRITUALITY A SPECIAL SPIRITUAL VISITOR AT BRISTOWS BUNGALOW AT FORT COCHIN
INDIA is the source of both Patanjali and Buddha; of Yoga and Ayurveda.. an immense resource for your soul. In a place like Fort Cochin, one can feel the spiritual…
Oct 15, 2018
FOR A TRAVELLER LOYALTY MATTERS, A TWO WAY STREET: BRISTOW BUNGALOW BY THE SEA IN FORT COCHIN
I am a Frequent Traveller and my world is Latin America, North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. Whenever I find a hotel or staff, I become attached to them, and…
Aug 15, 2018
FROM BRISTOW BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN TO HAMBURG, GERMANY
On my last visit to Fort Cochin, I had met a mother (specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and a daughter (who would begin her medical studies this autumn). In the…
Jul 15, 2018
The time of Tolerance in Jew Town in Cochin Kerala
This clipping was sent to me this morning by Elias Babu the Last Jew of Cochin, as I call him. Each time I am in JewTown in Cochin, I go…
Jun 15, 2018
A SHORT VIDEO ABOUT DAYS IN COCHIN, INDIA
FOR some lucky reason, I end up in Fort Cochin few times a year. I am not devoted to India and in fact, my visit to Cochin begins with arrival…
Apr 15, 2018
FORT COCHIN A PLACE TO STAY PUT WHEN YOU VISIT KERALA INDIA
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Apr 15, 2018
BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL IN FORT COCHIN GRATEFUL FOR PEOPLE FOR MAKING MY STAY VERY COMFORTABLE
Recently I had a chance to stay, for the umpteenth time at the Bristow Lighthouse Hotel facing the Arabian Sea in Fort Cochin. Rajesh Rajan the GM had organized a…
Mar 15, 2018
MEETING A REMARKABLE INDIAN AT MY FAVOURITE HOTEL IN FORT COCHIN :BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL
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Feb 15, 2018
THE BEAUTIFULLY RESTORED KADAVUMBAGAM THE RIVESIDE SYNAGOGUE OF THE MALABARI COCHIN JEWS
SITUATED IN MARKET STREET AND JEW STREET IN ERNAKULAM, COCHIN
Feb 15, 2018
THE CUISINE OF MALABARI COCHIN JEWS
The Jewish Community of Cochin, India is dead and has been dying for many years. As it usually happens, nostalgia begins to creep in and recreation efforts are undertaken. There…
Feb 15, 2018
A SPECIAL SHABBAT IN COCHIN ERNAKULAM
It was no coincidence that I received an invitation to attend a lecture at the Kadavumbagam Synagogue of Cochin that belongs to the Malabari Jews of Cochin. The synagogue breathes…
Feb 15, 2018
CUBA IS NEVER FAR AWAY IN COCHIN
When I tell people in this town that I live in Havana, Cuba, a smile of recognition cover their faces. Che Castro Cuba are in the mind sets of most…