Tag Archive: Switzerland

Body Memory

Dreamland -- Self-portrait by Wendy Soltero

After years of healing, why does the body remember a painful day before the mind catches up?

Food of The Gods: The Ethiopan Experience

My introduction to Ethiopia and its cuisine was in a Rastafarianism, Reggae, and the African Diaspora course I took in university. What struck me the most was learning that Ethiopia had never been colonized, and is one of the few African nations never to have been. Not for lack of trying, mind you. The Italians…

Nibble Nibble Here, Nibble Nibble There

A strange local phenomenon: Czech people eat in public all the time. Not just normal eat-on-the-go types of foods like gyros, ice cream or pizza. You see them at tram and metro stops nibbling on peices of bread. Not French bread, or croissants, or even decent healthy-looking bread. It’s always the cheap, nasty Czech bread…