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.
EAT HEALTHY SAVE THE TUNA SPARE THE GROUPER HAVE A KIND HEALTHY HEART AND SAVE THE PLANET Among the ubiquitous proliferations, insulting to a Japanese sensibility to cuisine, has been…
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE? Brain was viewed as a static organ in the body until as recent as the 1980s. We can now say with…
In these modern times, when changes are occurring at a mind boggling speed and technology and its benefits overwhelming us; why is that all of us, young and old, look…
You are lucky to have befriended a chinese family in the food business, said my best friend in Asia, who lives in Kuala Lumpur. If you had befriended any one…
For nearly 48 hours, I spent my time at Airports or at Airlines Lounges. But Let me tell you that I had an enjoyable experience MIAMI TO FRANKFURT ON LUFTHANSA…
I have had a wonderful week of meeting friends and enjoying their company, usually with some good food. In this short week, I was able to meet friends in Seattle,…
It was so nice to celebrate the arrival of Shabbat with my two brothers in Portland, Oregon. Two of the four children were present and another arrived later. I felt…
Maneki is the oldest Japanese Restaurant in Seattle. We were fortunate enough to spend a few minutes chatting to Jean Nakayama who is now shouldering the responsibilities of this restaurant…
Today at the Paris CDG airport, I looked at the Asian Travelers, young men and women disembarking after long flights from Far East.. I tried to analyze my feelings..I was…
thai golden café, museum street, central London visit to the british museum the same imposing columns, that greeted a young medical student from the antipodes you enter, the first turn…
HOW MUCH HAPPENS IN A DAY Cuanto pasa en un dia. title of a poem by Pablo Neruda from his collection Extravagaria, translated by Alastair Reid… “But, in one day,…
LIFE STYLE CHANGES VERSUS QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES The recently released information on Obesity rates in America and also the rest of the world, serve the troubadours of the tragedy,…
Culture of Geography of Birth? I was told of a forthcoming wedding in Paris. A Mali born French Nanny in her early thirties with a 12 year old daughter will…
French Paradox: an additional piece: Slowly digested or Undigested Carbohydrates. Another Piece of the French Paradox: Why French are not fat or have higher Cardiovascular Diseases. Most people working in…
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
When asked to examine a Monk in the Upper Irrawady Region, I had to use all my prowess as an Anthropologist. What does a Monk Eat? When are his eating…
WHAT 3 EUROS WOULD BUY YOU AT THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET IN CUBA 09 NOVEMBER 2010 Three large avacados, two Kg of Bananas, two kilograms of Guava, half a…
Yet another Journey is about to begin: this one a very pleasant one to look forward to, to two places that I love, one day in Miami which would include…
