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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Stuffing a chair with boar’s hair, and your face with...
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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Repeat expat Manal Khan lives in fact, in fiction–and everywhere in between
The Displaced Nation is on a mission to celebrate the contributions made by borderless travelers and global residents to creative pursuits. Owing to our Western bias, we tend to feature Westerners who...
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Never fear, Santa McNabb is here, with a sack full of Middle Eastern spy...
I’ve always thought of international creative Alexander McNabb as a person who wears many hats, including (but hardly limited to) those of software package salesman, magazine publisher, journalist,...
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And the December 2013 Alices go to … these 2 international creatives
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Pastries
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident repeat-expat Food Gossip and Creative Chef, is back with her column for like-minded food lovers. This month: The regrettable global takeover of the Cronut, and what...
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And the January 2014 Alices go to … these 3 international creatives
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Gourmet coffee vs The Pod — France’s answer to England’s...
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident repeat-expat Food Gossip and Creative Chef, is back with her column for like-minded food lovers. This month: Coffee, the Achilles heel of French cuisine. * * * “I...
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And the February 2014 Alices go to … these 3 international creatives
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THE LADY WHO WRITES: Wannabe novelists, prepare to dine with your characters...
Today we welcome back Meagan Adele Lopez, aka The Lady Who Writes—a repeat expat in the UK (she now lives in London). Besides writing, her talents include acting, blogging (during her first UK stint,...
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THE LADY WHO WRITES: Even before you write the last word of your novel, start...
April blossoms (and showers) are here, which means it’s time to welcome Meagan Adele Lopez, aka The Lady Who Writes, back to the Displaced Nation. Meagan is a repeat expat in the UK (last time Bristol,...
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And the March 2014 Alices go to … these 3 international creatives
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Home is where the hearty food is
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident repeat-expat Food Gossip and Creative Chef, is back with her column for like-minded food lovers. This month: Joanna despairs over the modern inability to enjoy the...
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And the April 2014 Alices go to … these 4 international creatives
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Why did the chicken cross an international border? Because this expat told it...
Sharon Lorimer is joining us again today. Last time she and I met, she had on her entrepreneurial hat to tell me about the ingredients she used to start up her company, doshebu. We discussed the...
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Some funny things happened on the way to paradise, as recorded in this...
Before introducing today’s guest, Margot Page, I’d like to make one thing clear. When I first read of her decision to uproot herself, her husband and three young kids from their comfortable life in...
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: Summer in a bottle…we’re jammin’
Joanna Masters-Maggs, our resident repeat-expat Food Gossip and Creative Chef, is back with her column for like-minded food lovers. * * * “I heard that wine makers in the Napa Valley have found that...
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For this global travel buff who meditates with camera in hand and HDR on...
Welcome to our monthly series “A picture says…”, created to celebrate expats and other global residents for whom photography is a creative outlet. The series host is English expat, blogger, writer,...
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10 summer hacks picked up from an expat (& repat) life spanning Japan, the UK...
New York City, where I now live after years of being an expat on two small islands, the UK and Japan, had a particularly brutal winter in 2014. You would think I’d now be in the mood for summer. But...
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And the August 2014 Alices go to … these 3 international creatives
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LOCATION, LOCUTION: Fran Pickering, London-based crime writer and Japanophile
In this month’s “Location, Locution”, expat crime writer JJ Marsh interviews Fran Pickering, a London-based crime and mystery writer who has lived and travelled extensively in Japan. Her experiences...
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