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The prequel: I love ethnic traditions. I don't have what you could call a culturally intriguing heritage, though, so it's not always easy to get in touch with my ancestors. This year, however, I did ...

This week's adventure: I know, I know. I'm 2 weeks late on my next adventure. It's been a whirlwind of visitors, home projects, and unpacking boxes at the shop that threw me completely off my game in ...

The prequel: It's been a while. Like...almost two years a while. My life took a turn, shall we say. My mom died, then my dad got sick / died, then my dog died, then I closed my brick and mortar store ...

This week's adventure: We're heading to Somalia! On July 1, 1960, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland were reunified and declared their Independence. The two territories, after 70 years of bein ...

This week's adventure: I'm totally stoked. I've always wanted to make bagels, so this is my chance to cross off a location on my kitchen adventure bucket list.Pre-adventure jitters: Boiling. Ser ...

The prequel: I love chocolate cake. I mean... I LOVVVEEE chocolate cake. I saw a picture of an absolutely beautiful chocolate cake with a creamy topping and I just had to learn more. When I pull ...

The adventure: Have I mentioned that I have an addiction to international cookbooks? Yeah, we're talking about a seeriously massive cookbook addiction. One of my favorites is also one that I haven't ...

This week's adventure:I needed a plan. I mean, I'm committed to kitchen adventuring over the next who knows how many months. But what do I cook? What countries do I choose and how? I can literally po ...

The adventure: Annddd the wheels have officially fallen off the train. The pick a recipe and go from there system has gone kerflooey. So a friend took me to an international market when I was in St L ...

The prequel: Hoooo...lllyyyy...crap. It's the third year in a row I'm looking in the rearview and saying to myself, "What the heck was that?!?" It's been a beat. Bought and started refurbishing a hou ...

This week's adventure: So my brother's an adventurous eater. He's well known in my family for eating squid, frog legs, and all the things that makes my tummy turn. When he learned that I was doing th ...

The adventure:  This weekend is Coptic or Orthodox Easter! I'll be honest, I found this recipe from Eritrea when I was looking for Muslim recipes before the last adventure, so I was THRILLE ...

This week's adventure:It's the start of Ramadan! Mhm...that means I had choices upon choices of countries to choose from. And I have to say, it's sooooo much harder to make a decision when you have t ...

The adventure: I had the privilege several years ago of visiting my artisans in Kyrgyzstan. Every time we sat down for tea, I was completely blown away by the bread...or at least I would have been ha ...

The adventure: I love Spanish cuisine. I mean I love ALL Hispanic cuisine, but I have a soft place in my heart for food from Spain. I spent a semester in Spain during college, and found everything I ...

I quit blogging several years ago. It became one more thing in a barrel full of one more things. The anxiety of what topic to choose...trying to be informative, slightly opinionated, maybe a little f ...

This week's adventure: As the world celebrates Columbus Day, there are a handful of nations who approach the day with a completely different point of view as they celebrate National Indigenous Resist ...

This week's adventure:This was an easy one. Pi day (or pie day) is 3-14 and St. Patrick's Day the 17th, so what could be more fitting than an Irish pie?! After a good bit of drooling over recipes, an ...

The adventure: Next week is Ascension Day in Colombia, a Christian holiday, so I'm back in the Western hemisphere for the next adventure. I made the decision to select an easy recipe this go round, b ...

This week's adventure: Tuesday of last week was Lord Buddha's Parinirvana in Bhutan. I'm not very familiar with Buddhist holidays, but from what I've been reading, this is one of the most important o ...