Try Turkish Spices to Cure Your Pandemic Woes
**Exclusive from ALO magazine.** The pandemic and social justice are dominating the headlines—as they should—this summer. For me, the impact on my normal travel is starting to weigh on my being and I’ve been searching for solutions as I watch the growing list of countries that don’t want U.S. travelers potentially bringing Coronavirus into their […]
Making Turkish Pita: The Ramadan Way
I’ve spent parts of Ramadan all over the Middle East including Lebanon, the Sultanate of Oman, and Syria. Without creating serious debate, one of the best places for anyone to be during the holy month of Ramadan is in Turkey. Here, the solidarity of the holiday reaches its peak while honoring many of centuries-old traditions […]
Eating Alone Can Be Your Virtuoso Moment
Okay, so where am I? I’m at a local eatery working, of course, on finding the next big idea. The last few years have been fruitful on my pursuit of these grand plans for advertising and marketing grandeur. It never stops. But the quest for being great should never stop. Employers and businesses want that. […]
Valentine’s Day: A Tongue-in-Cheek Perspective
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre remains the most notorious gangster killing of the Prohibition era, making Al Capone a national celebrity and since then plowing down innocent men who forget the significance that women put on this “greeting card” holiday. Here’s my tongue-in-cheek take on Dia de Amor. You know what they say about gin, […]
World Travels: Open Again
As Lebanon searches for ways to bring the country and tourism back, it turns to the food that made it famous, while giving an emphatic YES to the question: Will food be Lebanon’s savior? Beirut has always been kind to me. Eating has always been a guilty pleasure where the only thing more exciting than […]
Huge Food – What’s a Media Guy to Do?
Blueberry Muffin Then: 1.5 ounces, 210 calories Now: 5 ounces, 500 calories I ran across Katie Robbins who’s a writer for Psychology Today, theatlantic.com, LA Weekly, among others and she had some choice words for the food preparers of America. Her take is simple: Why are we being fed so much?! “With bucket-sized […]
WORLD TRAVELS: Saudi’s Ahwah Arabiyah
It was time…We started exchanging “Coffee?” emails last January with the search for good coffee as our excuse to travel the world. For us there isn’t a better Internet moment than receiving that first email with “Coffee?” in the subject heading. As we get older there are only three of us left: MacD, Hops and […]
