Aug 15, 2010
C’est la Vie….
Does this man deserve a holiday? People, who have known me for a while, still are not sure what is that I do, which takes me to exotic places on…
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.
Jul 15, 2010
A day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH-MIA
A Day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH TO MIA 12 55 pm Seat 4 D A glass of champagne 7852 km to Miami (4879 miles). Incredible when…
Jul 15, 2010
a day of Travel Part 1
A day of Travel What all Happens in the course of a Day 8th July 2010 July, especially its first days, leading up to the Bastille Day, is a bad…
Jul 15, 2010
LX 64 ZRH MIA AI 340-300 8 july 2010
Today waking up to a gorgeous morning here in Paris, I was overcome with the sweet sensation of SAUDADE.. That same sensation that I had known, even since I became…
Jun 15, 2010
I love visiting USA but the Food?
Comparing to the food on Sunday Lunch in Miami (pictures below) to the simple dinner on Monday Night in Paris (photos attached, ) makes me realize that the quality and…
Jun 15, 2010
La Casualidad no es tan Casual BY CHANCE?
Chance, Casualidad..we often wonder. . Does chance exist? or is it accidental and a fragment of ones imagination? We can always go to the Philosophers, the indigenous ones with thousands…
Jun 15, 2010
The Origins of Obesity in America
We can offer a thousand explanations, but one thing is clear, Americans are overweight and Obese.. and the trend is not reversing itself.... As an Endocrinologist and a person interested…
Jun 15, 2010
Food Insecurity in the Land of Plenty
It is not in every one's fate to think in advance about Food on the day of their trans atlantic flight..But on my 45th transatlantic flight since September 2006, i…
Apr 15, 2010
The Indus Valley Civilization
The Archeological ruins of Moenjodaro located on the right bank of the Indus River, around 400 kilometers north of Karachi, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, bears witness to one of the…
Mar 15, 2010
Les Belles Asiatiques
Paris being the most visited City on earth, on rare occasions people from different parts of the world may coincide with your visit to this city of Light and Love..…
Feb 15, 2010
An Unusually Cold winter in Paris
My body truly is made to live in the tropics! whenever I had to spend long periods of time in places where the cold weather predominated, I was not happy…
Feb 15, 2010
Cleansing of Oneself in Malaysia..Mind Body Spirit Affections
FOOD FOR THE BODY MIND HEART AND BRAIN AND SPIRIT IN A MATTER OF FEW DAYS IN DELIGHTFUL MALAYSIA I didnt begin my life as a Foodie, but it just…
Feb 15, 2010
Back Home in Paris.. but with the Glow of Asia
It is nice to be able to cross Continents and World Views in a matter of Hours.. at Midnight one day, you are at the Oberoi Lounge at the Bangalore…
Jan 15, 2010
The Pleasures of being snow Bound in Nebraska
It took me nearly two days, staying overnight at a CDG hotel, then another overnight at a hotel in Omaha, before i ventured out in the snow storm to the…
Jan 15, 2010
Food in the time of a Snow Storm
I was snowbound at the Blue House for a full four days. couldnt leave the house and brave the mountains of snow, driving the car was out of questions, no…
Jan 15, 2010
How little they know about Cuba in the USA
Zilch. Nada. Pitiable. No wonder they keep on committing blunder after blunder when it comes to their foreign policy.. News item from 4 Jan 2010.. La liste des pays visés…
Jan 15, 2010
My Wishes for my Friends in 2010 and beyond
I am in Quiberon, Bretagne today. Tomorrow I leave to be with Native American Indians of Nebraska before going to Miami to visit my sister. I have uploaded some pictures…
Dec 15, 2009
Christmas Punishment…Houston to Paris on Business First
Christmas Punishment Never before in my life have I lost my appetite completely, but on the evening of the 19th December 2009, I did. What a punishment since I was…