by Cat on November 29, 2007
Just found a great new food read: Epicourageous in Seoul. Daniel is a food-obsessed English teacher and writer living in Seoul. Just try to watch this video without immediately going out for some 갈국수 (kal guksu, Korean noodles, or as my MacBook translator widget says, “noodles which will go.”)
In another recent post, he linked to a piece on Fixing the Planet.com featuring families from around the world with a week’s worth of groceries and their food bill. While the pictures of the food (and how much it costs) are interesting, I was really struck by the different permutations of family. Some households have just the parents and kids and some have what looks like two or three generations all together.
Egypt: The Ahmed family of Cairo. Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53.
Hat tip: ZenKimchi
by Cat on November 23, 2007
[Update: I had to remove the embedded video because it was breaking the theme. You can still watch the video on the original site by following the link.]
David spent half a day home with Susana yesterday so I could go do an interview for a magazine article I’m writing. I felt bad because he hardly ever gets to spend lots of time with her and though she’s usually in a great mood in the mornings, this morning was the exception. So I was hesitant to leave him flying solo.
I came home from my interview almost expecting to hear Susana in the hallway. (It wouldn’t be the first time.) I didn’t. When I entered the apartment foyer, silence was all I heard. Heading into the living room, I saw this:
First Korean Lesson from Cathi Harris on Vimeo.
Maybe I’m just not challenging her enough. :-)
by Cat on November 21, 2007
OK. So, I don’t really have anything interesting prepared, but I am so tired of seeing that goofy ‘reading level’ graphic (that I only intended to be the lead article for a day or two and has now been up a week) that I decided I had to write something, anything, to take it’s place.
When I get a second, I will tell all of you lots more than you want to know about the article I am doing for Discovery, the SIWA magazine, on the World Jewellry Museum in Samcheong-dong, how freakin’ crazy expensive apartments in Seoul are now, and how I am learning to take and post videos of my little girl.
by Cat on November 15, 2007
