Jun 15, 2022
DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST: NOT BAD AT ALL CONSIDERING ALL THE VIOLENCE AROUND
Medical Anthropology includes the study of Food and Nutrition.
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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.
May 15, 2022
IT IS THAT LOVELY TIME OF THE DAY .. SUNSET. PÔR DE SOL PUESTA DE SOL LE COUCHER DE SOLEIL LOVE TO MY FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD
In the last one month, I have been in France (Nantes, Quiberon) and in Madrid and then in Cochin and took the longest flight, Singapore to New York (18 hours…
May 15, 2022
IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE FACE OF THE NEW AMERICA, GO TO ANY SHOPPING MALL IN AMERICA
I very seldom visit a Shopping Mall, unless I have something specific to buy there. Shopping Mall life has become part of the modern "village" offering a space for people…
May 15, 2022
TRAVANCORE COURT HOTEL, A FINE BUSINESS HOTEL IN THE COMMERCIAL CITY OF ERNAKULUM IN KERALA
After saying Good bye to the pleasant manager of the Tower House Hotel in Fort Cochin, it was time to go to Ernakulum. Mr Rajesh Rajan, manager of the Travancore…
May 15, 2022
COCHIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 25 APRIL 2022
Mr Rajesh Rajan, the manager of the Hotel Travancore Court at Ernakulum had organized a wonderful stay for me in Cochin this time. It was time to say good bye…
Apr 15, 2022
THE TRANQUILITY OF FORT COCHI . DAY 3 AT TOWER HOUSE HOTEL …
It was the day of excellence during the heavy rain on the part of the dentist who drove through the sheets of rain to attend to my teeth. Tonight would…
Apr 15, 2022
AWAY FROM PRESSURES OF LIVING IN THE USA .. DAY 2 OF A VISIT TO COCHIN
This visit to Cochin is turning out to be beyond expectations. Mr Ranjit and Mr Vertivar, both from Pondicherry, the administrative team at TOWER HOUSE hotel in the heart of…
Apr 15, 2022
OH! SAUDIA. YOU HAVE A LONG WAYS TO GO BEFORE BECOMING A FIRST CLASS AIRLINE.. I MISS QATAR AIRWAYS
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE FLYING SAUDIA: I AM GLAD HE ALI AKBAR IS RUNNING Qatar Airways WITH HIS ASIAN CREW I have been partial to flying Qatar Airways ever since that…
Apr 15, 2022
WE DROP IN FOR DINNER AT OUR BRETON NEIGHBOURS AND WE ENJOY THEIR HOSPITALITY. QUIBERON BRITTANY FRANCE
It was our turn to drop in on the neighbours. A short ride to a nearby village of Kerniscob (village of the Bishop in Breton), it was a happy moment…
Apr 15, 2022
NEIGHBOURS DROP IN FOR DINNER: FRENCH STYLE , HOW DO THE FRENCH DO THIS? ALL HOME COOKED MEAL
I am staying with a French couple at the seaside small town of Quiberon in Brittany. They are bretons. They invited another breton couple they had known for a long…
Apr 15, 2022
JOURNEY AS METAPHOR FOR USA AND FRANCE .. A DIFFICULT JOURNEY IN TIMES OF BLUSTERY RAIN AND WINDS
Journey as Metaphor Journey as a Metaphor of Life in the USA and Europe I travelled from Miami Florida USA to Nantes France Airline. American Airlines. Score 2/5 Trains. RER…
Apr 15, 2022
FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED : A DINNER IN NANTES, FRANCE
FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED: IN ACTION IN NANTES, FRANCE AT RESTAURANT LA LOCA For people who are QUANTITATIVELY minded, they compare numbers to numbers and never about what makes the numbers…
Apr 15, 2022
THE DIRTY DOZEN: THE CONUNDRUM OF PROFESSIONAL ADVICE VS PESTICIDES AND WHAT CAN YOU DO ?
E very two years, a watchdog group of Environmentalist, gain the data from the US Department of Agriculture and USDA and publish a list of vegetables and fruits which have…
Mar 15, 2022
SPRING 2022 HAS ARRIVED SO HAS NOWRUZ AND IMMENSE HAPPINESS IN OUR LIVES
It has been an extraordinary day.. My friends in Iran prepared and started celebrating NOWRUZ the Persian New year, remembering a time long when Zoroastrianism was the creed of the…
Mar 15, 2022
WHAT ALL HAPPENS IN THE COURSE OF A DAY…AN UNUSUAL DAY IN AN UNUSUAL LIFE .. HUMILITY, GRATITUDE AND COMPASSION, SAY THE INDIGENOUS WISDOM
it has been an extraordinary day of euphoria: doing exactly what you want to do with your body, thoughts and mind. It began with a poem arriving from a friend…
Feb 15, 2022
THE VALUE OF A DAY WELL SPENT; AMERICAN INDIANS. ADOPTED FAMILY. A TASTY PHO. AND ANAPANA MEDITATION BEFORE RETIRING
Today has been an unusually calm and content day without any form of conflict . One of those delightful days The responsible people were a friend visiting from Cayman Islands,…
Feb 15, 2022
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES TO ENRICH OUR LIVES.. THEY ARE WAITING FOR US EVERYWHERE ..
Went inside a supermarket Flavours of another America wafted towards the creaking doors warped with time and usage I wanted some incense, sugar which is not refined perhaps some coffee…
Jan 15, 2022
FLIGHT TO NO DESTINATION, MOROCCO IS CLOSED SO I HAD TO CREATE AN ITINERARY
I had a ticket on British Airways to London and then on Iberia to Madrid and Marrakech. I was looking forward to returning to Riad 58 Blue and my new…