TRAVEL THE WORLD (WHILE STAYING AT HOME) BLOG

Last December, after I searched online for food from Zimbabwe in California and only found it at the rain or shine Farmer’s Market in...

The best African experience I can have is cooking Zambian food with my friends who are Jamaican, Rwandan, South African, and Danish (the...

Kaitlin suggests that I turn these blogs into a travel book about international experiences in California. The hard part will be choosing...

When I was a teen, our Vietnamese neighbors made the most amazing egg rolls. Once a year they piled them high on a huge platter and...

Between Christmas and New Years in 2019, Cathy and I met to develop performance improvement training for Dignity Health in the Glendale...

There is no one like Heidi and Linda! I love all my friends. Many of them will cook with me, go out to dinner with me, and chat about...

I was still avoiding taro (remember that it is poisonous unless fully cooked) and I felt like I had seen all the food ingredients from...

A trip to San Francisco International to pick up Kristen became an adventure as I dropped off Kaitlin and Andrea at a craft fair at Fort...

One evening after work, Amy picked me up and we headed to Orange County to experience Uruguay. The first stop was Puerto Madero, a South...

It started with the dishes. It was about 20 years ago when I found a set of china with a moose in the middle and salmon swimming around...

Deserted castles are all over the United Kingdom, Alvin said. We’ll find one and spend the night. So Trish, Alvin, and I drove around the...

When I sent Vonnett a web address with recipes from the United Arab Emirates (often called the UAE or the Emirates), she replied, “Yum!...

In 2019, Christine, Andrea, Phyllis, Gladys and I went to Doma Kitchen, a Ukrainian restaurant in Marina Del Rey. Robbie, Christine’s...

On the drive to Van Nuys to try Ugandan food, Raquel, Robert, Anthony, and I played a game where Anthony would choose a country from a...

I have eaten Pacific Island food at least a dozen times with a dozen people and I keep forgetting to pull out my stoneware with images of...

Marcy told me that the cottage cheese cookies that I made for our dinner representing Turkmenistan were good enough to sell. The cookies...

Allan told me that the south coast of Turkey is one of the most beautiful places in the world. When he was thirteen, his family drove up...

In 2019, I had a Tunisian Lyft driver for an hour-long ride in traffic from California Hospital to Burbank Airport. We discussed Tunisian...

Trini doublez are a sandwich of garbanzos and condiments between two pieces of light, spongy, savory fried dough. The condiments are so...

After quite a search, my sister Suzy and I found Tongan food at Katalina's Island Grill in Hayward. Their steam table had eight choices...