“EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU”

 In Essex Market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan is this beautiful art installation sandwiched among food shop purveyors, farmers, butchers and restaurants as in strip pop ups. It represents a “slice of life” at housing tenements during the migration era settled by immigrants from Eastern and...

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THIS CHRISTMAS

 Guiso de Pato is a traditional holiday dish prepared in Peru, and my host parents in New York where I’m visiting is making that food especially special for our gathering this evening. I am listening as it is cooking; in the braise are spices, herbs, ripe tomatoes and vegetables galore thickening...

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WAI

It is logistically closer for me to get to Waikiki than to Kihei town which is only seven miles away. Flying takes only twenty five minutes! And besides, I don’t have to deal with beachgoer parking in Maui when Bus 20 from Honolulu airport takes me directly in the heart of Chinatown where I want to...

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ROOTS

"On Dec. 11, my husband and I will fly to Paris, reviving a holiday tradition that was set aside during the pandemic. For more than two decades, we celebrated Christmas at friends’ homes there, and then friends and family would come to our place nearby for New Year’s Eve. Last year, away from Paris,...

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