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I Like Salt
While technically defined as sentence fragments, Araella is now putting together phrases which, while not always grammatically correct, are usually quite descriptive… Just the other day I discovered Araella sitting in a remote corner of the house with a large pile of white stuff between her legs. She had managed to procure the salt shaker [...]
Clay Pot Irrigation
Written about in Chinese texts 2000 years ago, utilized by the Romans, and now employed across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, clay pitcher irrigation is a low-tech solution that is helping thousands of communities in arid regions of the world cultivate farmland during dry seasons of the year. These buried, unglazed pots allow water to [...]
“Soup with wide noodle, cow meat, and hold the guts…”
“Aht kruin knong tee” is a key phrase for any foreigner trying to save a few dollars by eating at the local hole-in-the-wall. Roughly translated it means “hold the guts” which, as in any poverty stricken country, is a standard ‘waste-not-want-not’ filler for any meal. However, not being entirely poverty stricken, I prefer to hold [...]
Mice and Men
It’s ironic – science can fully explain how an airplane flies; air velocity, surface area, air pressure… and yet there is something magical about seeing the ground drop away and climbing high above the clouds to a vatnage point only God and the sun enjoy. I haven’t gotten to the ironic part yet. Airline companies, [...]
The quintessential cuisine
I had wanted to try dog; you can’t come to an Asian country like Cambodia and not eat one of western cultures most loved domesticated animals. To Asians, it’s like Bessy on a bun with ketchup and pickles. Not that it’s actually that common. So I was quite eager to try it and once served [...]
Rite of Passage
It’s one of those rites of passage through which every missionary must pass; cultural faux pas of the linguistic type. Which, in a country where the language has 38 consonants and 24 vowel sounds, is not really uncommon (english has about half that many). Many of these sounds are extremely subtle, and if not enunciated [...]
