Category: food
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Cultural Experiences in the USA
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I spent two months in Los Angeles on the All Hands & Hearts wildfire response project. And while I was there I got to enjoy weekends, evenings, breaks in LA. And I got to live with a bunch of lovely Americans (and some lovely non-Americans too). And since LA is…
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Water / Honey
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There was one morning in Pokhara when I went to a little local café for breakfast. It’s one I had been to before. Quite a local place, though the menus are in English. The staff were great but not particularly confident in English (nor should they be, we were in…
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That’s Not Their Culture!!
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This blog post could equally be called “That’s not my culture” and it will contain reflections on both. But culture is an interesting thing, partly because it is simple, complex, hard to define, and easy to spot all at once. It is also really, really hard to see one’s own…
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Finding Breakfast
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While I was staying in Hetauda I had the daily joy of trying to find breakfast. The good thing about living on base is that breakfast is just there and I can get up, walk downstairs, put the kettle on, make some porridge and tea and eat some fruit or…