I have been in and out of Pakistan since the 2010 floods.  Was here for a wedding for two weeks in March 2002 before this and an aspiring documentary film maker so in between singing songs and wearing fancy clothes, I would put people on camera and talk about 9/11...yes, I was that American Pakistani relative.  That footage exists somewhere and is peppered with 'uncles' scratching their head and being…

Necessity is the mother of invention.  Plato said that by the way...sort of.

What's locally available is what you end up cooking with.  On my first field…

Nothing beats a home cooked meal in a foreign country with exotic ingredients (bought at the super expensive expat store).  There is a pleasure (for me) to have friends sitting around the table instead of at the 'Chinese' in Ampara, …