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TASTES | Afghanistan: Recipes for Kado Borani and Pumpkin Mantu

  OCTOBER 2010  |  TASTES  |  AFGHANISTAN  |  TRAVIS REISER   SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010 AT 06:50PM | Central Asian dumplings: aushuk (left), mantu (top), sambosi (right). By Jypsygen, Flickr CC.   That first meal one might have on the road in Afghanistan is a...

TASTES | Caucasus: Feasting & Storytelling Across the Caucasus

October 2010  |  Written by Daniel J. Gerstle   Republished November 2024. Originally, published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2011.   Ibragim, the fortyish, balding engineer with gold-capped teeth, raised his glass of arakh and hummed an intricate pentatonic scale ballad which...

SOUNDSCAPES | Remembering Home with Alt Rock Band, Wussy

May 2010  |  Wussy: Interview with Chuck Cleaver, Lisa Walker, Mark Messerly, and Joe Klug, with Daniel J. Gerstle / HELO. Image: WOXY  |  Humanitarianbazaar.org   Rolling Stone described the music of the American band Wussy as “mega-tuneful songs that can get under your skin something...

LITERARY | Somalia: War Scars

May 2010  |  Written by Daniel J. Gerstle     Photo also by Daniel J. Gerstle; a similar accident nearby which happened two years later. Republished November 2024. Originally published in Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) in 2010.   Dhegjar lost the top of his...

TASTES | Georgia: Wine and Walnut Chicken in Tbilisi

  Tastes  |  Travis Reiser, Dec-Feb 2010 Georgia is an incredibly diverse country so it is only fitting that it has an imaginative collection of local culinary specialties. “Georgia” includes the high mountains of Tusheti (see our cover photo), Kazbegi, Tskhinvali, Swanetia,...

TASTES | How to Cook a Camel

March 2010  |  Written by Travis Reiser; photo by Daniel J. Gerstle  |  Humanitarianbazaar.org   If Iraqi, Chadian, or Australian friends brought a camel to dinner, would you slaughter and roast it? How would you prepare such a beast? What garnish? Or...

LITERARY | Russia: Music for the Road

March 2010  |  Archive  |  Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Photo by Daniel J. Gerstle while on mission with IMC in Chechnya in 2006. Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine)    The wake-up is the easy part. You’re groggy and full of hunger but alive...