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September Update 2011

It’s been a while since I did a general update — things have been pretty crazy so there is a lot to tell. We just got back from a trip to the Catskills where Hella Delicious was born four years ago and most of my cooking videos were shot. It’s always great to go back–so nice to only have the sounds of nature buzzing in your ears. It was shocking to see the devastation caused by the flooding going on all over the East Coast, and gave me a different way to think about water, as well as a reminder of the terrible effect on our health caused by moldy conditions. Since it was so wet all kinds of mushrooms had popped up all over the place. We weren’t there for long, but had a chance to get some nice photos and take a midnight hike in the full moon up to the burial grounds of our old trailer home, which was squashed in the snowmageddon NY had a couple years ago. We still have 15+ more recipes filmed from our time there — just haven’t had the time to edit them! Embarrassingly enough we also have 5 more episodes of Mouth of Babes to edit as well.

Letter from Home

Letter from Home

I was digging through my old papers trying to find an old chart of my various ancestors the other day...I didn't find it, but I did find an old letter from Thanksgiving 1995 from our father, he's a linguist so he loves getting into all kinds of ways of looking at language--even spell check programs. ...

Kiwi Saves Girlfriend from Papua New Guinean Rapist

Kiwi Saves Girlfriend from Papua New Guinean Rapist

As you guys know I grew up in Papua New Guinea, I loved growing up there, but I also loved leaving there in my early teens. PNG is no place for a woman, or a girl for that matter, and although I tend to idealize traditions and indigenous cultures quite a bit on this site, I know it isn't all admirab ...