Global Table Adventure

2016-12-20

We all have them. Those lovely people that fall in the gift-giving grey area. You’d like to give them a gift, but you don’t want to overwhelm them. A...

2016-12-12

I’m hosting my first-ever Pop-Up Book Club on Facebook Live on Monday, December 19th at 8 pm EST (7 pm CST). We’ll be talking about my memoir Life from...

2016-11-09

Grand Canyon | by Chensiyuan Sometimes I think I chase this thing called peace because I can’t bear the thought of looking the ugly truth in the eye...

2016-10-26

It arrived one summer day in a nondescript, brown paper package reinforced with bubble wrap. We were on our way to the pool, I in my flip flops, she in...

2016-10-11

Today, we enjoy an autumn fruit punch from the heart of Uzbekistan’s Kyzyl Kum desert, shared with me by Paul Salopek, National Geographic fellow and...

2016-10-05

Nova Scotia’s Hodge Podge is a homey one-pot supper of fresh potatoes, carrots, peas and green beans. What takes it over the top? The addition of heavy...

2016-09-23

What we put on our tables tells a mighty important story. In my time so far as a Research Fellow at University of Tulsa, I’ve come to appreciate globalization...

2016-09-02

My daughter loves science and mermaids; when she couldn’t decide on a birthday theme, we agreed on an epic sci-fi mashup of mermaids, science, and geography...

2016-08-23

This is my cat, Malky. Sitting on my homework. Moments later, after some gentle kneading, he fell fast asleep, fuzz down on “The Language of Food,” by...

2016-08-11

Simone Biles of USA (Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil). The Olympics celebrates the human form: bodies that move – blood pumping through veins, muscles...