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Postcard from Yunnan, Part 3
I could tell you about the sweet peas I had at lunch, but my understanding of culinary dispatches from abroad dictates that I tell you about frog skin.
01.28.08
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- travel,
- meat,
- china,
- asia,
- francis lam
travel + culture
Postcard from Yunnan, Part 2
Food-wise, Yunnan is most famous for its ham, a salty, long-cured product that can be compared to jamon serrano or prosciutto.
01.22.08
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- travel,
- pork,
- china,
- asia,
- francis lam
travel + culture
The Spice Man of Kolkata
Bengalis, like many Asians, say only a mortar and pestle can crush a spice or herb to its fullest potential.
01.15.08
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- asia,
- india
travel + culture
Postcard from Yunnan, Part 1
This is hardly a cultural homecoming, but it is a good time. Part 1 in a series.
01.15.08
- Keywords
- travel,
- culinary culture,
- china,
- asia,
- francis lam
travel + culture
The Gathering Room
I'm just about to leave the village of Khonoma, in Nagaland, northeastern India, when a gregarious middle-aged man sweeps me into his kitchen.
01.09.08
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- asia,
- india,
- culinary culture
travel + culture
Winter in Darjeeling
Dense clouds obscure all but the pink, snowy peak of Khangchendzonga at 28,168 feet—the world's third-highest mountain.
01.03.08
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- asia,
- india
travel + culture
The Bridge
The "Seven Sisters" of India are not like the rest of India and generally, they don't want to be.
01.03.08
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- karen coates,
- asia,
- india,
- cookbooks
travel + culture
On Strike in West Bengal
The streets of Kolkata normally teem with people, shoulder to shoulder, in a
dense miasma.
12.14.07
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- asia
food politics
Dung Danger
Indoor air quality is a serious public health issue in South Asia, with cooking fires leading to thousands of deaths annually.
12.10.07
- Keywords
- karen coates,
- health + science,
- asia
travel + culture
Nostalgia by the Cup
If I want to feel like a revolutionary, or a poet, or both, Kolkata's Indian Coffee House (15 Bankim Chatterjee Street) is the place to be.
12.04.07
- Keywords
- restaurants,
- asia,
- thailand,
- karen coates
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