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THE DISPLACED Q: What’s the cheapest — yet tastiest — meal you’ve discovered...
So what is the tastiest cheap-eat I’ve come across whilst traversing the globe? Not being much of a foodie, and being a writer, cheap — yet tasty — is what I’m all about. Well, I hate to be boring and...
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THE DISPLACED Q: On your world travels, have you ever downright refused to...
Well, I’ve developed a reputation for having a cast-iron stomach as I’ve traveled around. I’ve never been shy to try new things, even though my own taste in food is pretty poor. I ate a peculiar insect...
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And the Alices go to … these 7 writers for their revealing posts on food and...
Autumn is finally here, and those of us who lost our appetite during the onslaught of this summer’s heat and humidity find that we can breathe — and eat — again! Accordingly, the Displaced Nation has...
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THE DISPLACED Q: Expats & other globetrotters, what foods do you inflict on...
I was a very finicky eater when I was growing up. I would only eat beans on toast or fish-fingers. Not beans with fish-fingers! Oh, no. In fact if beans touched the fish-fingers, the whole lot was all...
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Would I travel for food? It depends…on whether it’s pizza or haggis!
Third Culture Kid Tiffany Lake-Haeuser is back, to tell us what she thinks about gluttony as a motive for travel. As a Third Culture Kid who was raised in the United States and Abu Dhabi before...
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THE DISPLACED Q: Expats, repats, what’s the most outlandish tweak you’ve made...
Since my repatriation to America, Thanksgiving has become my very favorite holiday here. This is partly because of a tweak that I make to the menu, but we’ll get to that later. I wasn’t always so...
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The 12 Stodges of Christmas: Global foods to pack on the pounds this December!
Today, we bring you a helpful list of the most stodgy, calorie-intense dishes that make their way onto holiday dinner tables around the world. The way we see it, if you’re going to eat celery and spend...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Brigadeiros, the essential element of every Brazilian...
Today we introduce Global Food Gossip: a new monthly food column by Joanna Masters-Maggs, who was our guest in October 2011 with a two-part post about her culinary observations in Provence. Joanna was...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: There’s no taste like home
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident Food Gossip, is back with her monthly column for like-minded food gossips. Today’s topic for discussion in the kitchen is something very dear to Joanna’s heart:...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident Food Gossip, is back with her monthly column for like-minded food gossips. This month, Joanna addresses the issues facing a wine-loving girl who finds herself living...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Pastry or pie dough? Whatever you call it, it’s child’s...
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident Food Gossip, is back with her monthly column for like-minded food gossips. This month, Joanna comes clean about the reasons for her dissatisfaction with the world...
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NEW VS OLDE WORLDS: How not to be a victim of the 10-pound Tour, aka the...
Regular readers of the Displaced Nation are treated every other week to a new episode in the life of fictional expat Libby Patrick, a 30-something British woman who has relocated with her spouse to a...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Winning the war of Global Food One-upmanship
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident Food Gossip, is back with her column for like-minded food gossips. This month: The war of foodie one-upmanship, or “Who’s travelled the most?” * * * “I’m doing it the...
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NEW VS OLDE WORLDS: The “expat ten” can work both ways!
Every two weeks, the Displaced Nation publishes an episode in the life of fictional expat Libby Patrick, a 30-something British woman who has relocated with her spouse to a town outside Boston. Her...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: How (not) to feed a convalescent expat
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident Food Gossip, is back with her column for like-minded food gossips. This month: The state of worldwide hospital food. * * * “The last thing you need on top of...
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And the September 2013 Alices go to … these 4 international creatives
If you are a subscriber to our weekly newsletter, Displaced Dispatch, you’re already in the know. But if you’re not (and why aren’t you? off with your head!), listen up. Every week, when that esteemed...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Keeping food real in Brazil
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident repeat-expat Food Gossip and Creative Chef, is back with her column for like-minded food lovers, which includes pretty much every expat we’ve ever encountered. This...
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Talking to Sharon Lorimer about starting up a business on the art of being an...
Anyone who has been an expat has probably thought about, at some time or another, starting up a business to help ease other expats into the notion that they are now international residents. But how...
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Happy Halloween! A cauldron of 6 cautionary tales for the intrepid traveler
Yesterday’s Halloween post by Anthony Windram, about the top 5 ghostly settings from literature and film, got us thinking again about the ghostly and ghoulish, the mystical and macabre, the dark and...
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JACK THE HACK: Expat authors, time to build a great and powerful blog (2/3)
The expat experience Jack Scott and his partner, Liam, had in the Turkish port town of Bodrum—they were seeking sanctuary from a pressured existence in London—proved literally to be something to write...
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