Category: Food
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Resident Perspective: It Begins
This is the continuation of a series of journal entries depicting what it’s like to be a part of the COVID pandemic from the medicine resident perspective. Wednesday, March 25th Today was my first day of quarantine and now I feel like I’m a part of society. In the prior…
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Sustainable in the South Bay: Silicon Valley’s Top 10 Restaurants
My fiancé (Kate) is attending Georgetown Med in the fall and we just hit the road for Washington, DC. I’ve enjoyed eight awesome years in the Bay Area and feel fortunate to have gone to college, worked, and occasionally dominated adult league softball and basketball with so many amazing people.…
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Feb 17 – Mar 1: Azienda Agricola Mauro Iob, Vetralla
After staying with Bridget in Tuscany, my next stop was in the province of Viterbo, in the small medieval town of Vetralla, littered with waterfalls and caves. When I arrived, Rita had trouble finding me at the train station, but I’m not sure why, as there are several obvious reasons…
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Feb. 8-17, Castagneto Carducci, Le Catre
Tuscany is as beautiful as everyone says it is: a region heavily frequented by tourists, Italians and foreigners alike, for its wine and generally hideous landscape. Much more green and lush than Monteleone, it also rains a lot more. Also, Castagneto Carducci is 5 km from the beach, where we…
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Jan 9-25, Monteleone Sabino at Ozu farm
[I plan to write a different post for every farm I visit. More than going to Italy, I’m visiting small parts of people’s lives for 2-4 weeks each. Volunteering through farming is a very different way to ‘travel’ because you worry about money way less, you live with locals, you…
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Voting with Our Dollars for Chipotle
Vote with your dollars. That’s the message Mike Levy, my tenth grade history and ethics teacher, delivered to Moorestown Friends School’s graduating class in 2004 (the same year 34justice author Jon Zaid delivered a convincing anti-war speech to that same class). That idea – that I send a loud message…
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