News: An excerpt of my World Hum story, the Heat Seeker, will be appearing in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010! (Hitting the bookstores in February.) I also received a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum for my King Island, Alaska book project. I expect to plunge back into the research over the summer.
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News and Stories: November – December 2009
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Books, On Culture & Trends, On Design & Art, On Food & Drink, On Lifestyle, On Places & Travel, On Writing and The Media, Travel to Europe, Travel to Islands, United States Travel on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Catching Up: August, September and October 2009 Stories
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Culture & Trends, On Design & Art, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, Travel to Latin America, United States Travel on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh how woefully neglectful I’ve been in keeping up with this, my portfolio blog! It’s definitely been a busy few months, I’ve traveled to Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, Sweden and Mexico, and have been very busy working on stories throughout. I also started to write a weekly essay for the most-excellent Perceptive Travel, while [...]
Shanghai, Stuttgart & Outer Space: Selected Luxist Stories from July
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, Travel to Europe, United States Travel on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few of my favorite Luxist stories this month.
Vacation with the Obamas on Martha’s Vineyard 7/20/09
Hot Cars and Red Wine: 4 Ways to Do Stuttgart 7/15/09
Langham Yangtze Boutique Opens in Shanghai 7/18/09
Four Reasons to Toast July 4th with Rum 7/1/09
That Other Moonwalk 7/3/09
The Heat Seeker, Part Three: Spicier Please! — World Hum, 5/13/09
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Food & Drink on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And here’s part three, which takes me into the backwaters of Kerala.
The Heat Seeker, Part Two: This Raita Will Be Your Savior — World Hum, 5/12/09
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Food & Drink on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s part two of my World Hum series, in which my quest for heat takes me to Mumbai.
The Heat Seeker: Eat, Sweat, Love — The Travel Channel’s World Hum
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Culture & Trends, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, On Too Much Information, Travel to Europe, Travel to Latin America, United States Travel on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today starts my five-part series for World Hum on my quest for the spiciest food I could take. (And there’s video of me talking about it too!) It’s a story that took several years to research and then a long while to write, but I’m pretty proud of it, so have a look!
Part One: Currywurst [...]
Burqas, Made into Evening Bags? –The Huffington Post, 2/4/09
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Culture & Trends, On Design & Art, On Politics, United States Travel on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I attended the New York International Gift Fair last week, where I was completely taken by a line of evening bags, made from re-purposed Afghani burqas. I’ve written about it over at the Huffington Post.
Here are burqas in their original form:
And here are the bags:
It’s hard to imagine someone making an evening bag out of [...]
My Chinese Love Affair
Posted in Asia Travel, Daybook, On Food & Drink, On Judaism, On Too Much Information, tagged chinese food, chinese restaurants in nyc, jewish soul food, soup on January 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There’s one of those memes going around on Facebook right now called “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me”, in which you’re supposed to list, well, 25 little known facts about yourself. I’ve been tagged but haven’t participated because I over think things: I don’t know who knows what about me, and the mental macrame [...]
Ice and Snow International Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China
Posted in Asia Travel, Daybook on January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the places that’s very high on my list to visit is Harbin, China. It’s in the very north of the country, has a heavy Russian influence, and in recent years has apparently become a hot (so to speak) winter resort destination for said Russians.
Its best known for its Ice & Snow International Sculpture [...]
Tourists of Evil Omen?
Posted in Asia Travel, Daybook, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, tagged mumbai, terrorism, travel on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A couple of days ago, I discussed my odd travel karma of having been in a few places this past year that became victims of terror attacks.
Well, this couple has me beat. Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence were in New York City for 9/11, London for the attacks of July 7th, 2005, and then in Mumbai [...]
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