The Yeosu Kimchi Chronicles: A Cross-Border Spicy Adventure
The kimchi had travelled further than most conference papers ever will, crossing borders, surviving customs inspections, and achieving what all good research should: connecting people across cultures through shared experience, one fermented cabbage leaf at a time.
E.P.
Sep 16
The Last Bow in Akakina
There she was. Still bowing. Alone, by the restaurant entrance. Her small frame, held in that same respectful bend. A silhouette against the dusk light.
E.P.
Aug 1
The Cooking Show
When I mention to people that I was a student of anthropology, and I was doing my thesis toward a doctoral degree, their response was...
D.T.
Apr 1, 2024
The Decision
The sky was grey most days, that approaching winter in November 1991 in Toronto. Not a charcoal grey, but a kind of joyless light grey. ...
D.T.
Sep 2, 2021
A taste of uisge-beatha
June 21, Culloden Moor Inn, Eastern Highlands, Scotland I walked into the empty pub and tried to adjust my eyes to the shadowy interior....
E.P.
Jul 21, 2021
Assisted Robotic Sincerity
In the 1990s and the early part of the 21st century, I was living in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County. It had 31 cities and...
D.T.
Dec 12, 2019
Dinner Party
Last week, Friday evening, Linda and I went to a dinner, invited by a woman whom we hardly knew. It was one of those invitations to...
D.T.
May 19, 2019
The Hall of Great Elegance
Lamb shank, a dish when well prepared, makes a wonderful meal. My friends Ron and Lesley invited me to dinner when my dear wife was in...
D.T.
Nov 13, 2018
Appreciating Pastry
I met M. through my wife, Linda. They belong to an aquarobic exercise group. Through M. I met her husband, their three grown daughters,...
D.T.
Jul 20, 2018
The dignity of Sayed: an encounter with a street seller
“Kiria (ma’am), do you need a mobile case? I have some very nice ones and very cheap, just five euros for you.” The red long rabbit’s...
E.P.
Dec 15, 2017
