Apples and Miracles … reviewed by Jason

Good food can be a great excuse to travel anywhere: fresh, local organic food even more so. These two books take you on the (back country) road to eating off the land all the while learning, or better yet re-learning, about where our food comes from and what it truly can cost to get it [...]

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Enter the Gateway to the East … reviewed by Jason

Asian Heritage Month According to the eighteenth-century Swedish geographer Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (born Philip Johan Tabbert), one arrived in Asia as soon as one crossed the dividing line along the Aegean Sea, Dardanelles, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, Black Sea, Kuma-Manych Depression, Caspian Sea, Ural River, and Ural Mountains. The gateway to the east, a [...]

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Radio Shangri-La … reviewed by Deborah

Asian Heritage Month Facing a mid-life crisis, and bored with her life as a radio journalist in Los Angeles, Lisa Napoli decides to take a volunteer job in Bhutan. Measuring its GNP by Gross National Happiness and just entering into the modern world, Bhutan is a huge surprise. Her task is to help usher in Bhutan’s [...]

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Laissez les bons temps rouler! … reviewed by Jason

Mardi Gras is next Tuesday, March 8. Although “Fat Tuesday” is celebrated in various festivals worldwide, most of us immediately think of the wild, colourful and musical parades and parties happening in the Big Easy, aka Crescent City: New Orleans. If you can’t physically make the trip south, these titles will let you be there [...]

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Travel the World By Train: Near and Middle East (DVD) – reviewed by patron A.J.

Travel the World By Train: Near and Middle East is one in a series of train travel DVDs. This installment is very entertaining and informative. It follows a journey from Istanbul, Turkey to Calcutta, India. It involves not one long train ride on the same train, but several different trains whereby the passengers get off and board [...]

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