Report on the Myanmar Crisis

Report on the Myanmar Crisis

by | Jun 9, 2022 | Stories (2022)

Myanmar has never quite managed to make its affairs stick around the global stage long enough to gain momentum. Given its checkered history since being released from British imperialistic rule, it’s almost too easy to overlook the unrest that plagues the...
Russian Candies

Russian Candies

by | Jun 9, 2022 | Food Reviews (2022)

Something that I noticed is that a lot of the assorted candies were chocolate-based sweets and had some sort of crunchy element within a praline-like center. The crunch came from nuts or wafer bits. One of the wrapped sweets that we tried tasted like a caramel fudge...
Shoti Puri

Shoti Puri

by | Jun 9, 2022 | Food Reviews (2022)

Shoti Puri is a traditional Georgian bread. It’s cooked in a circular clay oven called a tone and is stretched to be a baton-like shape. When we went to Brighton Beach, we had some of this bread at Berikoni Georgian Bakery. The bread is quite flat and has a...
Dr. Lynda Chen – Taiwanese Immigrant

Dr. Lynda Chen – Taiwanese Immigrant

by | Jun 9, 2022 | Stories (2022)

For the first 14 years of my life, our family spent a month in Taiwan every summer. Whether it be the nightly chiming of the garbage truck (it usually played Fur Elise), praying at the temple five minutes down the street, or just sitting in the walls papered by my...