Part OneFrom Bosnia with Love Before the war in the Yugoslav republics in the nineties, we traveled through Bosnia several times. We either went south to the sea, or to visit the old Bosnian towns. Vrbas river canyon, Mostar, Jajce, Sarajevo… Narrow roads, unlit tunnels, inadequate road signage, yes or no signposts…And so in the…
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Baked Apples
I throw the apple at you, and if you are willing to love me, take it and share your girlhood with me; but if your thoughts are what I pray they are not, even then take it, and consider how short-lived is beauty.— Plato, Epigram VII Apples.What can we say about them?Apples appear in many religious…
Semolina Slices With Cottage Cheese
Semolina is the name given to coarsely milled durum wheat mainly used in making couscous, pasta, and sweet puddings. The term semolina is also used to designate coarse millings of other varieties of wheat, and sometimes other grains (such as rice or maize) as well.So, now that we have clarified what semolina is, let’s go…
Mỹ Sơn
Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to Indian Hinduism developed on the coast of contemporary Viet Nam. This is graphically illustrated by the remains of a series of impressive tower-temples located in a dramatic site that was the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom for…
West of the Pecos
Zane Gray – West of the PecosPecos Smith is the best horseman, the best shot, the best man with a rope who ever rode out of southwest Texas. That is all anyone really knows about him. But in six-gun country, west of the Pecos, people figure he will be useful to have around. This is…
Tuscan-style Chicken Fillet
Tuscany.One of the most photogenic landscapes in the world. The land of delicious food and pleasant wines.Lines of cypress trees on the horizon, lonely trees, blooming poppy fields. Vineyards, sunflower fields.Medici family, Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Galileo Galilei and more and more.The medieval towns are perched on top of the hills.Florence, San Giminiano,…
Sleeping in Austin, TX
How much of our lives is spent sleeping? The average person spends about 26 years sleeping in their life, which equates to 9,490 days or 227,760 hours. That’s one third of our entire lives spent asleep in bed! Wait! In bed? Where I didn’t sleep at all, on trains, in ship cabins, on the Greyhound,…
Night Adventure in New York
Night from Saturday to Sunday in the last week of February 1982.The night after spending the day in foggy and slightly rainy Washington D.C. When I inadvertently came across the back door of the White House, without a line, and I walked through the corridors and halls where decisions are made about the destiny of…
The Mulberries in Brooklyn
Morus nigra, called black mulberry is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae that is native to southwestern Asia, where it has been cultivated for so long that its precise natural range is unknown. The black mulberry is known for its large number of chromosomes.Morus nigra is a deciduous tree growing to 12…
Morning Prayer in Bukhara
From the beginnings of Islam, there have been three types of mosques: Djuma mosques, which are intended for the large crowds that come to Friday services, Namazga country mosques (musalla idgoh), which are used by the male population of both the city and the surrounding countryside to celebrate the two Muslim holidays Qurban and Ramazan,…