Last December, my son and I went on a vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with my family. Namely, my parents, my brother and his wife and two boys, and my sister and her husband. Thanks to my brother’s timeshare, 10 of us sprawled out...
A few years ago, my cousin gave me several packets of a spice mix from Bali, Indonesia. The small, clear packets contained an assortment of whole spices including coriander, black pepper, long pepper, cloves and what I believed were slices of dried kencur (zedoary, curcuma species)....
I first met Jafar "Jeff" Siddiqui 16 years ago when I first came to the U.S. Jeff and his wife Kathy were my brother's host parents. Every year, FIUTS, an organization at the University of Washington, plays matchmaker, pairing newly arrived foreign students with American...
