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Garlic Fried Rice

Recipe and Styling by Libbie Summers Photography by Chia Chong The first time I smelled the scent of Sinangag (garlic fried rice) wasn’t on a back road or busy restaurant […]

The Cinnamon Trade

Words and Artwork by katherine sandoz Harvesting cinnamon, like love, is no easy feat.  So said the Arab traders who specialized in moving and marketing the aromatic throughout the Middle […]

A Lesson in Geography and Modesty

There’s nothing like a worldly person to remind you you’re not.

When I meet Merveille Kasongo, her body language reads like one of those signs on the back of a semitruck that warn: “Stay back 200 feet.” Her arms remains locked at her sides and without smiling she looks directly at me with big dark eyes lined with lashes so thick I wonder how they could be real. My brassy American sensibilities are, of course, injured.