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Overcoming My Brazilian Fear with Banana-Caramel Cake

Person: Luana Location: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Recipe: Upside-Down Banana Caramel Cake I consider myself a fairly intrepid traveller. I’ve bicycled alone in Portugal along the Santiago de Compostela during November’s rainy season; survived a harrowing, three-hour cab ride from Cairo to Port Said, Egypt, after getting lost in that chaotic city and missing the bus [...]

Miah Johnson, oysterman and photographer

Southern Oyster Po’boys on Northern Cape Cod

Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts Person: Miah Recipe: Oyster Po’boys We drive in the oysterman’s pickup truck down to Wellfleet Harbor. It’s early spring, sunset, low tide, and the water is calm but the air cool. I wrap a scarf around my face, then turn away from the sea, where the wind is starting to blow. [...]

And Then I Was Blessed

This past weekend (April 13-16) Khmer people around the world celebrated the Cambodian New Year, a three-day festival that falls at the end of the harvest season and before the rainy season begins. A Cambodian-American friend told me about the holiday, and suggested I visit Wat Samakki Dhammikaram, a Cambodian Buddhist Center in Brooklyn, where there would [...]

Priceless

It’s tax day here in America. The day when U.S. citizens pay our dues to the government for the goods and services provided to us in the previous year – from building roads and minimally supporting our local National Public Radio stations to starting 10-year wars with people halfway around the world and allowing our [...]

Rene Magritte as overtaken by Andy Warhol.

Ceci n’est pas une food blog

“A day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image itself, along with the name it bears, will lose its identity. Campbell, Campbell, Campbell.” - Michel Foucault, from “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” ————- The French called the tomato the pomme d’amour: the apple of love. The [...]

Oy Gevalt! It’s Chinese New Year

Person: Veronica and Jeff Location: Queens, New York Recipe: Matzo Ball Soup with Shitaki Ginger Broth The CouchSurfing Cook had hosted a ton of people in her Brooklyn apartment in 2011. So to start the year in a new direction, she decided to mix it up, as they say, by couchsurfing at the apartment of [...]

A Recipe for Happiness

This past year, 2011, was a great one in the life of the Couchsurfing Cook, beginning with an amazing trip to Mexico last January and ending with a virtual trip to Brazil a few days ago, courtesy of my most recent couchsurfer, the bubbly, samba-loving veterinarian, Dr. Luana (story to run next week). It’s also a year [...]

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Person: Luana
Location: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Recipe: Upside-Down Banana Caramel Cake

I consider myself a fairly intrepid traveller. I’ve bicycled alone in Portugal along the Santiago de Compostela during November’s rainy season; survived a harrowing, three-hour cab ride from Cairo to Port Said, Egypt, after getting lost in that chaotic city and missing the bus back to a waiting cruise ship; and slept in a tent wearing earplugs with a pillow atop my head trying to get a decent night’s sleep while camping among 100,000 revellers at the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark.

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Overcoming My Brazilian Fear with Banana-Caramel Cake

Southern Oyster Po’boys on Northern Cape Cod

And Then I Was Blessed

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Ceci n’est pas une food blog

Oy Gevalt! It’s Chinese New Year

A Recipe for Happiness

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