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Home Kitchen or Kitchen Home?
Kitchens are very much the same everywhere you go

Rob Ruiz
Feb 258 min read
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**The Grain I'm not too fond of That Shaped Civilization: Rice's Global Journey**
If the story of food is the story of people, then rice is the protagonist

Rob Ruiz
Nov 23, 20245 min read
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You Are How You Eat
The Revealing Nature of Our Eating Habits: "You Are How You Eat"?

Rob Ruiz
Jun 26, 20245 min read
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The Erasure of Palestinian Cuisine: Israel's Environmental Policies Undermine Traditional Foodways
The Erasure of Palestinian Cuisine: Israel's Environmental Policies Undermine Traditional Foodways

Rob Ruiz
Jun 8, 20245 min read
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A Not So Culinary Chitchat: Egypt For a Year.
One might imagine living in a new distant and strange land with very romantic visions of streets filled with vendors selling magic...

Rob Ruiz
Sep 23, 20227 min read
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I'm going to Falafel you
This will be the fifth time I start this chit-chat. I did not start to write it to deliver some history, opinion, and facts about the...

Rob Ruiz
Jun 20, 20226 min read
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Culinary Chitchat: The Food You Trust
If you were to Google the words food and trust you’d likely find a variety of topics. Do you trust the source of your everyday food...

Rob Ruiz
May 22, 20225 min read
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Culinary Chitchat: Tie-one-on Egypt Edition
The lack of decent libation possibilities in Egypt has opened us up to the endless, and surprisingly tasty, non-alcoholic drink choices....

Rob Ruiz
Jan 17, 20224 min read
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Culinary Chitchat: Tapas My Ass!
I’ve stumbled on a little secret the rest of the world has been hiding from us, not intentionally of course. Having been in kitchens my...

Rob Ruiz
Dec 24, 20213 min read
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Culinary Chitchat: Egypt
Culinary Chitchat: Magic Carpet Let’s dive into some serious eats. Cairo, now our home for some months, has lifted my culinary spirits...

Rob Ruiz
Nov 30, 20213 min read
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Culinary Chitchat: Xem Xem
Vietnamese cuisine has never been my favorite, even after having lived there for three years. My wife on the other hand can’t get enough...

Rob Ruiz
Nov 20, 20213 min read
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Culinary Chitchat: An Introduction
Whether it’s an elegant white cloth service restaurant tucked away in a colonial building; street food served seated in tiny child-sized...
Larissa D`Avignon
Mar 26, 20212 min read
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