Feb 15, 2019
THIS IS LONDON, UBER EATS DELIVERS MASALA DOSA
The weather was bleaker more than the usual and the cold unbearable when I arrived at the Heathrow Airport from Madrid. I had booked a DOUBLE TREE BY HILTON hotel,…
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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.
Feb 15, 2019
DAY 1 OF A CRAZY ITINERARY OF TRAVEL TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD
DAY 1 Brussels European Quartier Brussels Airport Diamond Lounge at Terminal A To Madrid on Iberia Rush to catch the connecting flight to London Comfortable ride to London Chaos at…
Feb 15, 2019
BIENVENIDOS A MIAMI . CAPITAL OF CUBAN CRIME SYNDICATES
Mugshots of people arrested for being associated with rings of stolen credit-card numbers, most from Florida: Yaiser Herrera Gargallo, Juan Carlos Febles, José Castillo Febles, Taise Braganca, Claudio Fontes Ferreira,…
Feb 15, 2019
MEDICAL ENCOUNTER IN EASTER ISLAND RAPA NUI
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Feb 15, 2019
DAY 7 OF TRIP 2/2019 . LEAVING RAPA NUI WITH A CONTENT MIND
I was leaving Rapa Nui after a very content stay and saying goodbyes to my newly found friends, Pauli and Kutchi and their families and the Tahitian friends, plus an…
Feb 15, 2019
TAPATI FESTIVAL 2019 IN RAPA NUI . FOREIGNERS ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE
A RAPA NUI family with their Foreign Friends. Everyone joins in the celebrations, I can see my Argentine friend in the photo .. Rapa Nui are Polynesian and the Continental…
Feb 15, 2019
A DAY WITH BENEDETTI IN MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY
I am not sure when Benedetti entered my life. His association with Cuba 1977 was long before mine. I visited Colonia with . my brother Itzhak and another time with…
Feb 15, 2019
EASTER ISLAND TO PALERMO IN BUENOS AIRES AND A MATE HABIT IS BORN
Under a very hot sun, with only a slight breeze from the oceanfront just a few feet away, my good sister-friend from Rapa Nui and I were looking at the…
Feb 15, 2019
THE NEW ICON . FRIDA KAHLO
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Feb 15, 2019
Which Are Healthiest Countries On This
Which are the healthiest countries on this planet? Of course a scientific survey such as this would take into consideration a multitude of factors but in general the longevity is…
Feb 15, 2019
FATTEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD
I just wrote a post about healthiest countries on earth and was happy to find that I was associated with many of them. Then I decided to look for the…
Feb 15, 2019
A COUPLE OF DAYS IN MIAMI . AND THANKS TO COLLEAGUES NICE FOOD AS WELL
The arrival to USA especially Miami after the short flight from Havana, just forty minutes..is educational and needs cultural comprehension. the language remains the same, people look the same and…
Jan 15, 2019
MALAYSIA MY SECOND HOME AND THE DOUBLE TREE HOTELS THAT MAKE IT SO
I left Siem Reap with a heavy heart after having had a wonderful end of the year sojourn there. The minute the flight landed in Kuala Lumpur my mood changed…
Jan 15, 2019
MY POLYPHENOL DINNER IN MIAMI 14 JANUARY 2019
I have to present a conference on MICROBIOME and its ROLE in KIDNEY diseases in a couple of days time. After arriving from Havana and adjusting into the complexities of…
Jan 15, 2019
IN SEARCH OF CUBAN COFFEE IN KEY LARGO FLORIDA KEYS
I was visiting some friends who live by the water in Key Largo, an hour and a bit drive from Miami. They suggested that we visit some places near by…
Jan 15, 2019
CASTRO THE LITTLE POET OF BARACOA COMES TO VISIT LA HABANA
MIguel Angel Castro, the Historian and the poet laureate of Baracoa came to visit La Habana and the day spent together was memorable. We had collected a treasure trove of…
Jan 15, 2019
ARE THE PROBIOTICS OFF THE SHELF GOOD FOR YOU… MAY BE NOT
There is an increasing interest in MICROBIOME, the large number of bacteria that inhabit our guts. Once certain relationships became clearer to scientists: good and bad bacteria, lack of diversity,…
Jan 15, 2019
MICROBIOME AND KIDNEY AND OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISEASES
I was requested to present an Introduction to Microbiome and its effect upon (or vice versa) on the Kidney diseases at a health fair being held at a tribal auditorium…