Recipes from the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF)

So I'm afraid I'm sort of limping onto the screen with this entry, because I had very little joy researching recipes for the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Because unlike the mainland of Antarctica, where I encountered several friendly people who were more than happy to share recipes, and places like Bouvet Island (also...

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Recipes from Gabon

In my pre-Travel by Stove days, bananas were something you sliced up on cereal, or ate as a snack or with ice cream, or made banana bread out of when they started to turn a yucky color. That was pretty much my whole banana repertoire. Then I discovered boiled green bananas and loco. Bananas can be a side dish! Who knew? Now...

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Recipes from Fujian, China

Martin, who as you know is British, used to complain bitterly about American Chinese food. "That sweet sticky sauce," he claimed, "isn't in the Chinese food we get in England. It's a totally American invention." Being American, of course (and never having actually visited China), I know nothing but Chinese food with sweet...

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Recipes from French Wallis and Futuna

It is 103 degrees and I am sitting on my deck watching my kids swim, thinking of blowing off this entry in favor of a dip in the pool. I am pretty sure I can hear sizzling every time I move one of my feet out from under the shade of my patio umbrella. Now aside from when I lived in Chico, land of 115 degree Augusts, this...

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