Our dear friend Jen called us up today to say we’ve got a starring role on her favorite blog. Seattle Tall Poppy, it turns out, is a standout among Seattle’s pretty stellar rank of RFB’s (Righteous Foodie Blogs). What a very generous and thoughtful post this happy, high achieving blogger, Traca, has made! This is [...]
Finished our last interviews day. We are pretty much done with filming. Figured we could take part in some risky behavior (not that going scurvy is not a risk). Now it is all about T + T = T. (Transcription & Translation is Tedium.)
Ringmo Restaurant, one of Kathmandu’s very first restaurants (36 years old, according to Dil, a co-owner), is right up the street from us. They’re serving the food we’ve been looking for. The menu is humble and 100% homemade, as far as I can tell. So far we’ve eaten the best hot-and-sour soup either of us [...]
On a minor note of inconvenience, we are having a tough time finding good food, cheap. Kitchens/restaurants in these parts seem either to be of the supremely grubby, guaranteed-to-make-you-sick kind, or of the backpackers’-delight-rich-and-fatty-comfort-food-and-a-little-too-expensive-to-boot variety. We’ve got a modest budget for our daily consumables, and our hotel provides a great breakfast spread. Lunch and dinner [...]
