• “Never Fail” Chocolate Cake

    My mom was never much of a baker. However, she’s always had a great love of chocolate cake. These opposing forces found an unlikely convergence point, back in 1974, in…

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  • Why in the World is the Whole World Baking?

    When I wrote my last post about the magic dough, I certainly wasn’t anticipating the current epidemic. You know, the global baking epidemic? I don’t know about you, but my…

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  • The Magic Dough

    What if I told you there’s a homemade bread dough you can put together in minutes, with only a handful of ingredients, and no rise time? Gina (Skinnytaste) Homolka’s formula…

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  • Pasar Ubud

    When I was planning a sabbatical trip to Southeast Asia, I looked around to see if there might be any photography-related excursions along my route. I stumbled across a morning…

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  • Meeting Anthony Bourdain

    It took me a couple of weeks after the sad news of Anthony Bourdain’s death to remember that I’d met him once. After it hit me, the details started coming…

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  • Myanmar Markets and Meals

    I’ve finally dived back into the photos from my trip to Myanmar and Thailand last fall. In this post, I’ll be focussing on the food and markets of Myanmar. Mandalay…

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