Breakfast

The first meal of the day to break your fast from the night. I don’t give much thought to breakfast. It’s actually a meal I typically skip or I eat something small like a fruit and have some tea. I don’t typically enjoy so many breakfast food like cereal, eggs, bacon, hash browns etc. it…

Vegetarianism

After hearing my uncle had heart surgery, among other co-workers and family members getting illnesses related to cholesterol, cancer, diabetes et-cetera, I decided I wanted to try going ‘clean eating’ vegetarian for a month in January. I’ve realized thrown myself into a new world that I’ve dismissed as a nuisance before. I’ve learned that vegetarianism…

The Pinhão – Brazil’s Pine Nuts

The pinhão is a pine nut that comes from the Paraná Pine or the Brazilian pine tree. These trees are native to Brazil but are critically endangered due to logging and agriculture. I was lucky to be visiting Campos de Jordão for a classical music festival and saw an abundance of these beautiful trees. It’s…

Cha vs Tea

I just got back from São Paulo 🇧🇷 Portuguese is their preferred language but there was one word they used that was not of European origin: Cha which is the universal word for tea in the Eastern world. For a European language like Portuguese, I expected them to say call it tea too. I was…

The Windy City

So that one time in May 2017, I almost moved to Chicago. I was lured by their delicious deep dish, bursting city center, and Lake Michigan.

2014, what a year

So it’s January 2015, a lot of things happened last year and it was… amazing!  I was looking through my photos, and I was just wow, did that really happen to me? So here’s a year in review I went to Death Valley twice once in March and another time in November Went to San…