Favorite Posts
A list of my most thought-provoking, hard-hitting, boundary-breaking, over-hyphenated posts. Well, not really. But if you were only going to spend five minutes on this site, this is the direction I’d point you in:
TRAVEL
A THOUSAND WORDS
A collection of favorite photos from my travels
THE TRAVELOGUE
Stories and musings from around the world
Qingping Market: Snakes and Tigers and Turtles, oh my!
Perasi’s Pasir Putih: Bali’s best secret (for now)
Hong Kong’s Hidden Treasure: Tai Long Wan
Bicycling through Angkor, Cambodia
The Ghosts of Family Past: Phnom Penh and the Khmer Rouge
The Best of Thai, the Worst of Thai: My first — and last — elephant ride
TRAVEL TIPS & THOUGHTS
Making travel just a little more fun
It’s not a scam: getting the most of discount airline ticketers
Trazzler for Travelers
Bargaining in Asia
Wanderlusting with Jetsetter
The Accidental Host: My first Couchsurfing experience
FOOD
FOOD ISSUES
Life through the lens of food and restaurants
Confessions of a Nonalcoholic, Part I and Part II
The Culture of Comp: Drawing the line between free and freeloading
RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Singing the praises of great meals in my life
Polka Polish: Falling in love with white people food
Daniel and the Art of Fine Dining
I went to Delfina, and all I got was this lousy photo
Squirmy & Squeamish: Raw Octopus & Monkfish Stew at Masan
Gimme Mo-Chica: Discovering Peruvian Cuisine
RECIPES
I don’t cook often, but sometimes I can impress
MARKETING & MEDIA
How Flickr’s new “Request to License” could have saved E*starLA a trip to court
Navigating the tricky territory of selling your photos
EZ Scrambler vs. the EZ-er Scrambler
Oddly enough, this is the biggest search term for my site…
Beginner’s Guide to Building a Professional (looking) Website
Tips for the amateur
Gourmet Food Trucks: Innovation or Fad?
Just another cupcake or froyo trend, or a revolution in the dining scene?
Thank You for High Fructose Corn Syrup
Examining the Corn Refiners Association’s recent campaign for HFCS and its parallels with Big Tobac-, I mean, Thank You for Smoking
Liable for Libel? Lawsuits aren’t always the Answer
Before you cry, “Get a lawyer!”, understand the difficulty of libel lawsuits and explore the other options for dealing with a critical review
My Mini-Obsession with Murphy-Goode’s “A Really Goode Job”
Comparing and contrasting social media campaigns, exploring controversy and a three-part Q&A series with the three L.A. finalists
