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Growing up in a bilingual and bicultural household in the heart of Rocky Mountain culture I soon learned that food and drink are among the most poignant and meaningful things to people as they move around the globe. A child may forget or never learn the language of his other-shore forbearers, but she or he will always be able to recreate a mood and an ancestral place through food. Food is the one thing above all, even religion, that intimately persists in a changing, mobile world. Food and drink are the first hospitality offered in a foreign or local place and become the continuing glue that binds us to each other. We relish in meeting friends out for drinks and dinner, or in having a gathering at our homes, planning the food carefully to bring delight and to recreate that most fundamental bond of human societies, breaking bread. As for wine, though not an essential to life like food, it is certainly an ancient pleasure, one dating at least to 7,000 years ago in the ancient Near East, and an elixir that adds to the flavor and sharing of breaking bread with others. I love to write about food and wine, from its fundamental origins of how it is grown, handled, and gotten to market, to its ritual and symbolic aspects in how it is artistically prepared, shared and infused with meaning as much as with spices and seasonings. Walking, Eating, and Drinking Along the Road to Santiago de Compostela. TransitionsAbroad.com. July 2008. Read
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Eating Well in Madrid.
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Cultural Life of Avignon.
Food Markets in Rabat, Morocco.
Taking Tea in Morocco.
The Mother Hens of Andrin.
Berlin's Eclectic Music Scene.
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Berlin's Weekly Markets.
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Michelin Green Guide--Provence.
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