Archive for May, 2010

Branching Out

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The Reader Travels is no longer just a solitary blog site feeding into my Facebook account. I’ve recently started The Reader Travels Vagabond Edition as part of the Vagabond Journey’s new blogger community. For now, it just means that I’m posting parallel blog entries each week, but I haven’t yet decided if I want to […]

Talking to Your Food

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

When Arthur Dent found himself in a conversation with a cow at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, he couldn’t help becoming a vegetarian.  I mean, what would you do if a cow stood there asking you which piece of her you’d like to eat? Perhaps you’d say, “I’ll just take a little milk, if you […]

Food Conscience

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

In honor of Mother’s Day, I’d like to talk a little about guilt. Since my mother instilled in us what she called “a healthy sense of guilt,” I became a minor hedonist to balance things out a bit. So I love sex and I love food, and I feel no guilt about eating eggs from […]

I Do Like Them, Sam I Am

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

So every traveler must face foods he has never eaten before. It’s part of the adventure to experience new things. These foods may seem unpalatable at first, but then we find that if we open our minds, they actually come out tasting quite delicious. As in the case of “Green Eggs and Ham,” by Dr. […]