“Excuse me, could I get a banana please?” I said to the flight attendant on my recent flight from SFO to JFK. “Oh, I’m sorry we stopped that.” “Stopped what,” I asked? “Offering bananas as a snack.” “Ok what can I get instead?” I asked. “A cookie,” he replied. The flight attendant did not agree […]
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David and I have been hanging out in Atlanta the last few weeks. His mother will not be with us much longer. He and I and his sisters have converged to surround her with family, love and comfort while she packs up her suitcase and gets ready to leave us. So the days have been […]
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“I’m really looking forward to my Shrimp and Grits,” I said to David as I popped another fried pickle into my mouth. Charlie gazed on from underneath the table, smiling and panting, trying to keep cool. The town was Charleston, SC and the watering hole was the Blind Tiger Pub. We were on a mini […]
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When transitioning to a vegetarian lifestyle the easiest thing to start cooking at home is beans and rice. Master this delicious staple and you will always be just minutes from a nutritious and filling meal. It is endlessly customizable. Add any combo of veggies, jazz it up with some herbs and/or nuts and you have […]
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During my time in Mysore one of my friends adopted a vegetarian way of eating. This was a fairly easy transition for him because we ate every meal out and the vegetarian selections in India are quite vast. But he remarked to me that he wasn’t sure what he was going to eat when he […]
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I found this beautiful red kuri squash at the Palo Alto Farmer’s Market this weekend and was feeling very inspired to make a delicious red curry coconut sauce to compliment it. My first attempt to execute a red curry recipe from one of my cookbooks went horribly wrong. So I had to chuck it out […]
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