The Creole trinity is the beginning: diced celery, onion and green pepper, the base of many a savoury dish. Real butter. Sauté them slowly, never browning just gently massaging them from time to time to encourage them to exude their juices to combine with the ingredients to come. Bay leaf, thyme, garlic, the first dose […]
Category: Personal Entries
Spring in Berlin
Memories 2003/2004 Berlin, Germany: “Watery golden sunlight, the staccato clack of Herr Zug awaken me, struggling up through vivid dreams already late with the rising of the sun, I pull on clothes willy-nilly. Racing down the corridor, through the station, barely making the train I need, I catch my breath only to have it taken […]
Memories of a Romanian self-proclaimed Guru: Berlin 2003
For a university course I took earlier this year, I had to select a leader and determine their driving force. Although it was obviously suggestive of choosing a well-known or current leader, when I really stopped to think about the question there was no one I wanted to write about except a man whose name […]
The People: The Power of the Pow-wow (Photos)
There’s always a sense of anticipation for me but also one of coming home. Of having been elsewhere and existing, but this is the real world: a Pow-wow, wherever it happens to be. I feel a sense of purpose and relief seeing so many of the People together. I see the faces of my relatives […]
Hof Marienhöhe-A Trip into the past (Photos)
Being “green” and the organics herb, produce and medicinal markets are booming around the world. In Germany especially, being a country known for it’s almost religious recycling habits by a majority of the population, eating and living healthy, going back to nature is quite popular. Eating only food grown locally or indigenous to the area […]
Red Haircrow 
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