Jan 31, 2021A Brief History of American Street FoodIt’s no secret that street food is one of the most direct ways to get to know a place. Whether you’re a bleary-eyed traveler facing down an intimidating language barrier, or simply visiting the next town over, the ease of access remains the same. Simply follow your nose once you…History6 min readHistory6 min read
Aug 29, 2020Second DimensionIn March, the world got flatter. I’m not saying conspiracy theory, flat-earther flat. I mean flat. Everything compressing to points on a line. Two-dimensional. Compressed to a single axis. How else could you explain it? March was the first time I made a decision based on that virus. On the…Short Story4 min readShort Story4 min read
Jun 1, 2020A Defense of Wet MarketsWet markets have been experiencing a bit of bad press lately. Perhaps that may be putting it lightly. Although not entirely confirmed, it is widely hypothesized that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for causing COVID-19, first made the leap from animal to human in an open-air market in Wuhan, China. This…World6 min readWorld6 min read
Jan 23, 2020David Chang is no Bourdain“Phnom Penh. Shit. What have I got myself into?” David Chang opens in the Cambodia episode of his new show, Breakfast Lunch, and Dinner. Phnom Penh, a city where, I might add, at any given moment, a decent portion of the population is 18-year-old Australian backpackers on gap years. His…Food4 min readFood4 min read
Oct 15, 2019An 8000-Year-Old HarvestThe country of Georgia has been popping up in headlines quite often these days. Whether it is articles from various publications hailing the small country nestled in the Caucasus as the latest ‘undiscovered’ travel destination, or the June 21st protests that made waves in international coverage as the country thumbed…Travel11 min readTravel11 min read
Jun 28, 2019The Tbilisi Protests — VisualizedProtests erupted across Georgia on the afternoon of Thursday, June 20th, after a Russian MP, Sergey Gavrilov, was invited to address the Georgian Parliament, which he did in his native Russian. Georgians did not take kindly to this…Photo Essay4 min readPhoto Essay4 min read
Jun 25, 2019Searching for TonyToday marks the first inaugural Bourdain Day. Anthony Bourdain’s birthday was June 25th, and his longtime friends, Eric Ripert and José Andrés are “calling on everyone, anyone, to raise a glass of beer, wine, or perhaps bone marrow sucked from a straw in a Singapore marketplace, Bourdain style — and…Travel6 min readTravel6 min read
Mar 18, 2019Anatomy of a Medical SeparationLife doesn’t always go how you think it will. Forgive me for being so cliché, but that’s a thought that’s been running through my mind a lot lately. A few months ago, I was medically separated from the Peace Corps. Throughout the time leading up to the end of my…Peace Corps9 min readPeace Corps9 min read
Mar 5, 2019One Angry Egg: My First and Last Encounter with Balut(This story has fairly graphic descriptions of food that might not be so appealing to some.) I’m not a natural story teller. Whenever it comes time to swap stories during a party, I always seem to be afflicted with an oddly specific case of amnesia that causes me to instantly…Short Story7 min readShort Story7 min read
