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...rural Tanzania for eight weeks, I knew not to have particularly high expectations about the food I would encounter there. Two weeks of orientation seemed to prove me right—we were served the same beef stew, which had more bones in it than actual meat, every single night. Sometimes we hard-working volunteers had to subsist on only makande for lunch, a stew of maize and beans. Needless to say, I was less than satisfied...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: Taste Test | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...customs started to get even stranger. Our first morning in the homestay, I was handed a plate of peanuts for breakfast. Legumes and instant coffee? Not my favorite way to start the day. Some of my friends brought jam to their families as a gift, and on their second night, found themselves extending their hands to be served a spoonful of it to eat plain...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: Taste Test | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...conversations that could only be described as one thing: food porn. Cookie dough ice cream? McDonald's cheeseburgers? Bagels with cream cheese? Felipe's burritos? You name it, we've fantasized about it. In fact, it's gotten to the point where I had a dream the other night about a chocolate shop. While we're in the city on our weekends off, us internationals hop from Western establishment to Western establishment, in search of the perfect solution to our culinary cravings. It's hard to find; Cream cheese and chocolate just don't taste the same in Africa...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: Taste Test | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...book contains a few celebrity profiles, including one of Lenny Kravitz. Do you think that you really got to know him by hanging out with him at a club for a night? Did you worry that he was just humoring you? I don't think I got to know Lenny Kravitz very well. I got my first impression, and that's what I tried to put down. I spent more time with Marilyn Manson, and he might have been more vulnerable. We had more time, and I feel like I got to know him a bit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writer Jonathan Ames | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...Streets Re "Iran's Awakening" [june 29 - July 6]: I am an Iranian who wishes to convey to everyone who is fighting in Iran in a way we and our parents were not able to that we are humbled by the dedication you have displayed during the protests. Every night, Iranians have flooded the streets of Westwood, Los Angeles, wearing the colors of the campaign for freedom and carrying flags and candles. Children who have never played in the green pastures of Shomal have rallied among their parents holding pictures of those killed and flyers reading NEDA, WE WILL NEVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

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