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Olive oil shots, anybody?
One of the small perks of being a food blogger is that you occasionally get invited to random, interesting meals. Yes, of course they’re designed as marketing opportunities. But sometimes, they’re...
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#148: amazing Gambian hospitality
Sometimes, people are simply amazing. trust me: these ladies are amazing With mixed success, I’ve been a cold-calling fiend lately: if you’re a UN Mission, a community organization, or a New...
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#149-150 Zambia & Zimbabwe: Southern African geniuses gone wild
I was drinking beer at an alumni happy hour a few weeks ago, and I kept thinking to myself: “You know, I’ve never even met anybody from Zambia or Zimbabwe. Ever. I mean, I’ll probably find those...
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#151 East Timor: people are still amazing
I seem to say the same thing after every single meal these days: people are amazing. In my search for Timorese food, I emailed some complete strangers in East Timor – alumni of my high school’s...
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#152: the world’s only Mauritanian restaurant!
Pretty much my entire life revolves around hard-to-find international foods, but this is one of my favorite finds ever: I just ate in the world’s only Mauritanian restaurant outside of Mauritania....
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The Food of Oman
Because my life is chewy awesome, I spend countless hours googling certain hard-to-find cuisines. I know: hour after hour with Google probably doesn’t sound like fun. But sometimes I accidentally...
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#153 Central African Republic: bring on the home-cooked grub(s)
Let’s get this out of the way first: yes, I ate four plates of caterpillars. Yes, I very much enjoyed them. And caterpillars contain four times as much protein per ounce as unadorned chicken breasts,...
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#154 Turkmenistan: melons!
I can’t claim to know much about Turkmenistan, but here’s one thing that makes me love the country immediately: Turkmenistan officially celebrates National Melon Day on the second Sunday of August....
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#155 Uganda: partying with priests and plantains
Let’s get right to it: Yep, that’s a picture of two priests and a school principal. And yes, the gentlemen are drinking home-brewed millet beer from a communal clay pot, using long, homemade...
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#156 Rwanda: isombe and supermodel ugali
As the country numbers get higher, people just keep getting awesomer. (That was grammatically correct, right? No? Whatever.) Our Rwandan chef-for-a-night, Placide Magambo, is a fellow that I’d never...
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