For each class we prepared and cooked under this motto which essentially says to approach love and cooking the same way: without abandon.  Using fresh herbs like hoja santa and epazote was a first for me. I hope to see these at our summer farmers’ markets. Cinnamon, cumin, and garlic also played a big [...]
A Week of Mexican Home Cooking in Tlaxcala, Mexico
[The following is a guest post from our Lone Wolf - el_lobo_solo - about his recent cooking-focused trip to Mexico, -fmed]: I did a week-long cooking course with Mexican Home Cooking in Tlaxcala, Mexico (about 45 minutes from Puebla or 2 hours from Mexico City by bus). The property and accommodations were beautiful and [...]

Homecoming – Goa, India
A New Year’s trip to India starts in my home state of Goa. We were lucky to be based in my sister-in-law’s ancestral home, a lovely rural home in the village of Loutolim, South Goa. Built many centuries ago………. The home is filled with beautiful antiques mostly from the time of Portuguese rule in Goa. [...]

India
Travel Monkey just got back from India Going bananas in Chennai formerly known as Madras. Flock of Birds of Paradise The Bangles in concert in Hyderabadn India Kannada is a language in India and a country in Canada Foreigner plays in Kolkata formerly known as Calcutta. Saudi Arabian students interested in higher education at the [...]
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