Category Archives: Food

The Best Ordovician Horseshoe Crab in the World

October 4, 2017 – 1:51 pm

Dating back in time to the Ordovician age 450 million years ago horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils. These ancient invertebrates’ eyes are a million times more sensitive to light than humans, but they don’t have wear sunglasses while mating in mud or sand of shallow coastal waters. Sadly these extraordinary creatures are threatened by […]

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Princess Pamela’s Soul Food

August 24, 2017 – 6:26 am

My friend Emily Armstrong found a photo of 1969 Princess Pamela’s Soul Food Cookbook. She wrote the following: “I was thinking smothered pork chops and remembered Princess Pamela’s Little Kitchen near my first apartment on E 10th Street. You had to shout up from the street, “Hey Pamela!”, and if she was in the mood […]

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Toilet Marathon

June 12, 2017 – 12:29 pm

One early Sunday morning in 2007 the police blocked Pattaya’s major streets for the annual marathon. Runners started before dawn to escape the enervating powers of the tropical sun, otherwise the twenty-six miles would be shortened to a single kilometer. When I was in high school, I ran cross-country. 5K-10K. Not anymore. My friends and […]

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Eating On The Run

February 8, 2017 – 11:59 am

No animal eat on the run. Not lions, tigers, or bears. Cows, sheep, and goats meandered as they grazed, but only humans walk and eat at the same time and most of those achieving this dubious goal are Americans. Every morning I share the train with commuters holding hands with a cup of coffee or […]

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Superstitions of Thai Food

February 8, 2017 – 10:49 am

Every country has their own Old Wive’s Tales. Thailand is no exception. Some might seem crazy on the surface, but most have been based on solid logic, so farangs will still hear the following axioms being said today in some Thai families about dining etiquette and they have nothing to do with using the wrong […]

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