Aug 15, 2015
FOOD, WINE AND GOOD CONVERSATION: A JEWISH FAMILY IN AFRICA
If I had travelled the eight hours on an Etihad Airways flight, then taken the train to the centre of town, checked into a Hilton Hotel and then went to…
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.
Mar 15, 2015
FOOD SYMBOLISM OF PURIM, THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE OF THIS CELEBRATION
Today is 13 th of Adar 5775 Yesterday evening, walking home in the evening, the clear fading sky showed the outlines of a bright moon, almost full. Is the moon…
Mar 15, 2015
AMERICAN FOOD GUIDELINES, BRAZILIAN GUIDE TO BRAZILIAN EATING, MICROBIOME AND WHAT WE SHOULD EAT
AMERICAN FOOD GUIDELINES, BRAZILIAN GUIDE TO BRAZILIAN EATING, MICROBIOME AND WHAT WE SHOULD EAT United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a new set of rules to guide Americans…
Oct 15, 2014
WHEN EXOTIC BECOMES EXTORTION: INDIAN FOOD IN MIAMI
WHEN EXOTIQUE BECOMES EXTORTION :INDIAN FOOD IN MIAMI Indian Cuisine is an oxymoron, unless of course it is a compilation of numerous cuisines found all over India. Indian cuisine was…
Sep 15, 2014
TOO LAZY TO EXERCISE OR WORKING HARD TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE? SCENARIO FROM THE USA
Some astounding factors about Exercise in America Comparing the data from 1988-1994 with 2009-2010, the proportion of adults who reported NO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, increased from 19.1% to 51.7% in women…
Aug 15, 2014
HOW TO EAT WELL IN MIAMI.. FRIENDS, FAMILY AND TASTE IN FOOD AND WINE
When you think of Dining Spots around the world, or Dining in general, the every day food of America does not come to mind. Visitors to this country are amazed…
Oct 15, 2013
HEALTHY OVERWEIGHT VS UNHEALTHY OVERWEIGHT: PROCESSED FOOD MAY PLAY A ROLE
TROUBADOURS OF TRAGEDY: THE LOSS OF TRUST IN EPIDEMIOLOGISTS Epidemiologists are bureaucrats of Western Medicine. They are usually male, middle aged; White and lack people skill or communications skills but…
Oct 15, 2013
SEATTLE A Foodie Paradise
SEATTLE, A FOODIE PARADISE Outside of New York City, in the USA, the major cities have regional emphasis on their cuisine, with a smattering of innovative cuisine. If you go…
May 15, 2013
FRIENDS, FOOD AND…MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA
SINCE 2008, I have been very lucky to have been visiting Malaysia on a regular basis and since 2012, Indonesia was added to the regular jaunts over there. This year's…
Apr 15, 2013
FOOD FASCISM AGAINST AMERICAN INDIANS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FOOD FASCISM Is a fashionable term used, especially among the Middle Class Literati to denote imposing the unscientific but popular health/diet systems…
Mar 15, 2013
FOOD AS MEDICINE, NOT JUST SUSTENANCE
When you talk to many of the western trained doctors or nutritionists, they tend to reduce food into Medical Nutritional Therapy as if eating is a form of Therapy for…
Dec 15, 2012
EATING OUT IN MIAMI : COMPANY IS USUALLY BETTER THAN THE FOOD
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE An Evening Out Dining in Miami We are in the habit of lamenting the disappearing scene of restaurants, we get attached to…
Jul 15, 2012
ADVICE ON FOOD LABEL READING esp for AMERICAN INDIANS AND ASIANS IN ASIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Effect of macronutrient composition of weight loss diets on reduction of the inflammatory marker hsCRP http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/12/S1/O5 Published on 12 th June 2012…
Feb 15, 2012
FOOD INSECURITY AND POOR HEALTH. CAN DEPRESSION MAKE YOU CHOOSE BAD FOOD? ANXIETY ABOUT FOOD AND OBESITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FOOD INSECURITY AND POOR HEALTH. CAN DEPRESSION MAKE YOU CHOOSE BAD FOOD? ANXIETY ABOUT FOOD AND OBESITY Two medical Journals in my…
Jan 15, 2012
ARE WE POISONING THE NEXT GENERATION: FOOD AND ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
Pediatric Study: 'Healthy' Diet Best for ADHD Kids For those of us interested in the sociocultural aspects of modern diseases, ADHD, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, along with a myriad of unexplained…
Oct 15, 2011
Food for the Kickapoo.. in South Florida
The Traditional Kickapoo Tribe with their homes in Eagle Pass, Texas in Maverick County and Nacimiento in Coahuila, Mexico is one of the few tribes in North America with dual…
Sep 15, 2011
Best Work Cafeteria Food.. where else but in France?
France is truly a very advanced country when it comes to taking care of the health and welfare of its citizens. Where in the world would you find employers providing…
Jul 15, 2011
MALAYSIA FRIENDS FOOD AND CLASSICAL YOGA
MALAYSIA TO MALAYSIA MY LIFE IN BETWEEN VISITS TO MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. Singapore to Tokyo. Tokyo to London. London to Paris. Paris to Miami. Miami to The Indians,…