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.
For some reason, I was thinking of Mexico today..nothing precipitated this nostalgia for a country where I used to travel very often during my student days..Since Yucatan is close to…
I have always enjoyed that sweet sensation of Saudade, possibly the one of the more beloved words that i like in any language. a feeling of impending loss and the…
Confessions of a Frequent Flier One Pass Platinum Star Alliance AND Air France Flying Blue Gold Skyteam Obsession with small luxuries of International Travel Just a couple of days ago…
WELCOME TO THE USA Global Entry Programme As I have to visit USA on a fairly regular basis,( 13 visits this year to Miami, our Other Cuba) I applied for…
The wait at the Amsterdam Schipol Airport seemed interminable. There were lots of japanese boarding their flights to Tokyo. The KLM club is spacious and full of amenities. I tried…
If you are interested in my musings about Nutrition and Health, some with a heavy cultural overlay, you can consult www.crossculturalendocrinology.blogspot.com When coming home this evening, I thought, what is…
I was extraordinarily lucky to have had my medical education divided between three countries: London in England, a medical model still paying attention to the great masters of the past…
Dinner on the night of 4th August 2009 First Course Moroccan Crab Salad Cream of Asparagus Soup Greek Salad Santa ana Reserve Torrontes, Argentina 2007 Main Course Three Cheese Vegetarian…
Priests of the New Nutritionism: An American Tragedy Since when do we need these self appointed guardians of packaged food to supervise our eating? My Lunch today chicken kebab. salad.…
The phone rang as soon as I entered the Blue House at the Reservation. Hey Doctor, we are going into the Sweat in about half an hour, would like you…
it is incredible how beautiful this part of the world looks, especially through the eyes of a stranger, after rain and fog rising out and at dusk, many cotton tail…
it has been a very long time since I have felt this excited about being in a city..New York City, that imagination in the minds of so many millions of…
Where do they get them from? Arrived at the EWR international airport after a swift and smooth flight from Paris. There were only two people in front of me at…
Newly found Love for Paris One thing you would learn living in Cuba is that you are curious about most things and you become very observant. when you show someone…
The last day in Havana. 26 th June 2009 Where was I on 26 th May? Where would I be on 26 th July? When you are in Havana, you…
Cuba Narrative 2 Today is 22 nd June 2009 On June 14 th 2005, I was in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Hanoi, having requested the receptionist to…
To Understand the Love for France … while in Cuba One of the things I would like to do on this trip is to find out the relationship, inversely or…
It is searingly hot here in Habana. Unrelenting and burning through to your bones. This morning I left the house of my sister in Miami at 530 am, arriving at…
