Remember when I told you, back in early April, that I was about to pitch an ethnic food market column to a secret Montreal publication? Well judging from the deafening silence that endeavour was met with, I believe it’s not too early to make the announcement that the column, titled Eating Diaspora, will officially live [...]
Sign posted in an Istanbul apartment building window, somewhere down Çakmakcilar Yokusu. (Illiterate, Turkish bad-girls need not apply.)
Oh well, blame it on the reggae. It appears, my friends, I’ve been sleeping on all kinds of amazing new music. (New – just to be clear – meaning both “new to me” and “stale, verging on the moldy” to everybody else.) Who knew, for instance, I enjoyed Missy Elliot protégé Jazmine Sullivan so much? [...]
Amidst the liquor store receipts and once-inspirational fortune cookie fortunes bloating my wallet, I still carry, brittle and crumpled, the note this woman gave me, detailing her address and cell phone number. Even after discussing the matter all morning (there isn’t much to do on Turkish trains), she couldn’t understand why I’d rather press on [...]