Category Archives: Food

The Smell Of Durian

April 11, 2012 – 11:26 am

Many Asian foods are alien to westerners. Insects, horseshoe crab eggs, and sum tam or spicy mango salad easily come to mind as foreign to the tongues of farangs, however the most unacceptable Oriental delicacy is the ever-malodorous durian. The stench of this squishy fruit is so disagreeable to non-aficionados that durian joined hand grenades [...]

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Dinner For Thirteen

April 5, 2012 – 5:50 pm

According to the New Testament Jesus entered Jerusalem in triumph. Within a week his enemies were plotting his death. Faced with impending doom the Nazareth native gathered his followers for a Passover Dinner just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem in a joint called the Upper Room perhaps run by an Essene [...]

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Insects Yum Yum

March 15, 2012 – 1:05 pm

Most tourists to Thailand are fascinated by the food cart selling with fried insects ie crickets, grubs, cockroaches, scorpions, and several unidentified members of the insect species. Photos cost 10 baht. Thais revel in daring farangs to cross that culinary line in hopes of witnessing the European upchuck the crawly creature,s as if they were [...]

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John Hopkins Report On Big C

February 29, 2012 – 3:44 pm

Death Valley March 1996 From Michael Holman, not a doctor but a friend. AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY (‘TRY’, BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY . Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins: 1. Every person [...]

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BET ON CRAZY / CHINESE FOOD by Peter Nolan Smith

February 13, 2012 – 5:24 pm

Last year after Valentine’s Day business on 47th Street got really slow. The rich went on family holidays to St. Barts and Palm Beach. Oil bills taxed New Yorkers to the bone and purchasing a diamond was the last thing on most people’s mind in the dead of winter. Some days no one entered the [...]

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