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Purchasing Joy:
Through the weekend that follows Thanksgiving I have been maintaining a page that provides a round-up of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals that are of particular interest to Christians. This is something I have done for several years now, yet every year I do it with a bit of a guilty conscience. There are both benefits and drawbacks to publicizing deals like these. On the one hand, it is a means of connecting Christian retailers with people who may be interested in taking advantage of a few pre-Christmas deals, but on the other hand it may just feed the consumerism that is rampant both outside the church and within.
Eating Poorly, Sleeping Well: Mockingjay and the End of Progress:
There are dystopian novel plots that resolve, and there are those that do not. Commercial success demands resolution, which is a great reason why Collins will have to overcome a credibility barrier with adolescents and young adults if she ever wants to match The Hunger Games trilogy's sales with future works. Peeta?? Come on – all pulp bestselling authors know that the dark, masculine hunter is supposed to win out in adolescent-lit love triangle. Anyone writing a conventional dystopian epic knows that readers like resolution, and let's face it, Panem's new government doesn't seem particularly promising. Katniss fails in her assassination attempt, which honestly changes the prospective climax into a major letdown. Most people seemed disappointed by the ending in some way or another, but it's also safe to say that the third book is the most honest – since it alone in the series doesn't have to appeal to anyone commercially (they're all buying it anyways), Collins is free to present her undistilled vision for her literature. Even in the raw, oft-disappointing power of Collins's vision of her characters as weak, suffering, or powerless, audiences still try to recover conventional meanings of glory from her work. "Real or not real?", the poster at left reads. "Tick, tock, this is a clock", a poster from Catching Fire reads. And yet, there are no deep musing on Time in this trilogy, no thematic explorations of reality in the way those two posters would suggest. Similarly, the clichéd love triangle disappoints many readers at the end, and the naive theme of political revolution takes an obvious backseat to Katniss's own internal trauma. Whatever Collins is presenting us with, it's certainly not the easy romance and suspense which drew people into The Hunger Games, and neither can it be described by simple catchphrases which, quite frankly, are more situational and fun for Collins than universal or philosophical points. Instead, it's the plot itself that articulates her vision.
Newly Unemployed Newlyweds and Billy Joel's Fiery Optimism:
I've recently become fixated on fire – in both its noun and verb form. This preoccupation began when, three days after returning from my honeymoon, ten days into my marriage, I was fired from my position as a first-time 5th and 6th grade teacher. This jarring turn of events has (much like the beginnings of a B-rated rom-com) led to some soul searching. After weeks of crosswords, wedding thank you notes, episodes of Gilmore Girls, and intermittent moments of panic, I've landed on Billy Joel's 1989 hit "We Didn't Start theFire" as an unexpected spring of inspiration.
Don't Sanitize the Psalms:
In some churches, if our public worship and prayers echoed what we find in the Psalms we might find ourselves called before the church board for correction. Unlike the stoic legalist or safe churchman, the psalmist expressed the full range of emotions in worship. He felt no need to pretend that he had it all together. He did not limit himself to safe clichés about God.
A Sigh of Relief: The Avett Brothers and Anne Steele Get Honest:
Peace can be uncomfortably paradoxical. I've found that a vast majority of the conversations I have during the week beat around the bush–and the lack of substance only perpetuates existing anxiety. Art has proved to be exceedingly helpful, in that it often points me to an inescapable truth: when feeling stuck, the worst possible thing to do is hide. But we want to hide. Nothing about displaying fears and insecurities seems the least bit freeing.
In their new album, The Carpenter, The Avett Brothers continue their wonderfully raw and beautiful articulation of real life.
Previously on Parenthood, Pt 4: It's Scary, It's Really Scary:
Remember that I introduced this series of posts by looking at an earlier episode poignantly titled "Everything is not OK ," a title that spoke to Adam's relentless positivity in the face of his wife Kristina's suffering. Since then Adam has slowly come to grips with the realities of Kristina's breast cancer, but the most recent episode (#7, "Together") portrays his continued futile attempts to keep everything "under control" as he says: "I've got this taken care of." The thing is, Kristina isn't the only one suffering. Adam is, too. His attempts to keep everything at work and at home under control/business-as-usual are basically unconscious efforts to distract himself from the pain. Ironically, he is killing himself by doing so.
Do Pro-Life Policies Even Matter?
One of the persistent myths in the abortion debate is that the pro-life movement doesn't actually do much to help save lives. You'll sometimes hear this complaint from pro-lifers themselves who have cynically concluded that pro-life legislation and pro-life legislators don't accomplish anything that matters to unborn babies. On the other side, pro-choice advocates will claim that the pro-life cause is all about controlling women and regulating sex and don't do anything to reduce the number of abortions anyway. If there is one thing cynics on both sides can agree on it's that pro-life policies don't work.
Please check out my new podcast on Trek.fm, Literary Treks. It is devoted to all things Star Trek in literature; novels, comics and reference books. We talk to authors, have book and comic news as well as cover books in-depth. So give us a listen.
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Q: How to custom sort a Django queryset Given a data model with Title strings, say:
class DVD(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
class DVDAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    ordering = ('title',)

sample_titles = {"A Fish Called Wanda", "The Good, the Bad, and the Unsorted",
                 "A River Runs Upstream", "The Incredibles",}

I want to generate a queryset sorted by title, but considering the title as minus any leading words that are in a list, such as ("a", "an", "the",). So "The Incredibles" would sort before "A River Runs Upstream", etc. I don't want to just truncate the data, either in the database or in the resulting view. I want to create an internal custom sort for querysets.
One approach that seems like it might work, is to create a custom Changelist, then sort the queryset there, as:
from django.contrib.admin.views.main import Changelist
class title_sortlist(Changelist):
    def apply_special_ordering(self, queryset):
        qs_desc = self.models.objects.all().order_by('-title')
        return qs_desc
    def get_query_set(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        queryset = super(title_sortlist, self).get_query_set(request)
        queryset = self.apply_special_ordering(queryset)
        return queryset

class DVDAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    ordering = ('title',)
    def get_changelist(self, request, **kwargs):
        return title_sortlist

This works for standard sorting - the descending sort does override the model's ascending sort. However, I haven't figured out how take a queryset and custom sort it.
Another possibility might be to dynamically add a field to the model, call it cut_title, suitably edited, then just sort by that field. However, I've just starting reading about dynamic model changes, and it's not clear how to do it (not to mention, it seems slightly wonky, more so than regular monkey-patching).
A third option, I was reading that Django has an extra option for querysets, where you can add additional SQL, including new fields. I have no idea how to add a new SQL field that represents the edited title, though - can Django SQL call a Python function, maybe?
So what approach, if any, would be best for sorting a queryset by (modified) title?

A: @bebraw in the comments is actually right.
Creating a special sort field is how it is done. This is custom for search frameworks like SOLR, as well. You even might apply special text analysis to sort according to language.
In your case, if it's just as simple as to remove the stop words (a short list of articles), you would create a regular model field that copies the data from the other field and removes the stop words.
The benefit from using a regular DB field: you can create a DB index (e.g. on UPPER(value)) and be able to sort case insensitive supported by the DB index (you will have to add an extra field with QuerySet.extra to sort on UPPER(value)).
This will allow fast sorted and paged results. If you do everything in Django you will have to retrieve the whole data. This might be fast enough for some hundreds of rows but will not scale at all if the data increases.
HOWEVER:
Be careful with stop words depending on your data. The anti example to stop words is the title "To Be or Not To Be" which consists completely of what you might easily classify as stop words and would simply be annihilated when running through such a filter.

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Swimmer in the Ocean of Night
Filed under: General — Tags: Swimmer — m759 @ 3:17 AM
For Scarlett
From a search for "Preparation" in this journal —
"In a nutshell, the book serves as an introduction to
Gauss' theory of quadratic forms and their composition laws
(the cornerstone of his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae ) from the
modern point of view (ideals in quadratic number fields)."
From a film in which Scarlett portrays a goddess —
Madness related to several recent posts —
Then, with an unheard splash which sent from the silver water to the shore a line of ripples echoed in fear by my heart, a swimming thing emerged beyond the breakers. The figure may have been that of a dog, a human being, or something more strange. It could not have known that I watched—perhaps it did not care—but like a distorted fish it swam across the mirrored stars and dived beneath the surface. After a moment it came up again, and this time, since it was closer, I saw that it was carrying something across its shoulder. I knew, then, that it could be no animal, and that it was a man or something like a man, which came toward the land from a dark ocean. But it swam with a horrible ease.
As I watched, dread-filled and passive, with the fixed stare of one who awaits death in another yet knows he cannot avert it, the swimmer approached the shore—though too far down the southward beach for me to discern its outlines or features. Obscurely loping, with sparks of moonlit foam scattered by its quick gait, it emerged and was lost among the inland dunes.
— From "The Night Ocean," by H. P. Lovecraft
and R. H. Barlow
Related news —
"When hard-liners seized power in Moscow in August 1991
and imprisoned Mr. Gorbachev in his vacation house on the
Black Sea, Mr. Chernyaev, a guest there and a powerful swimmer,
offered to smuggle out a note by swimming to a beach more than
three miles away. Uncertain where he could take the note, they
dropped the plan. The coup quickly failed in any case."
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Thanksgiving, the ultimate holiday of the displaced—and still going strong
Leave a comment Posted by ML Awanohara on November 27, 2017
The Displaced Nation feels a special kinship to Thanksgiving. It strikes us as being, when all is said and done, the holiday of the displaced.
Quite a lot is being said about Thanksgiving these days. But before we get into that (actually, we may not have much time to get into it), let's quickly review what we know to be true about the holiday's origins:
The Pilgrims sailed to North America from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower in 1620, disembarking at what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A year later, in 1621, they celebrated a successful harvest with a three-day gathering that was attended by members of the Wampanoag tribe.
What we haven't been able to establish, however, is how both Native Americans and settlers came to be at the same feast. Did the Pilgrims invite the Wambanoah out of gratitude for their assistance in planting corn and showing them where to fish? We simply don't know. What we do know, of course, is that the Native Americans were eventually displaced from their lands.
It is hardly surprising, then, that some now see Thanksgiving as a story of a displaced people thanking the about-to-be displaced natives.
Hmmm… Does that story make the United States the closest thing the world has to a Displaced Nation?
But I digress. Returning to the topic at hand: no matter how you slice or dice it (hm, an appropriate Thanksgiving metaphor?), Thanksgiving remains a tradition of a shared harvest feast, one that started up in North America (yes, the Canadians celebrate it, too) around four centuries ago and is still going strong today. In fact, many of us continue to add layers of displacement to our Thanksgiving meals, as the following round-up of food-oriented posts will attest.
No longer exclusively a North American holiday
As Fodor's Travel points out in a recent post, you can now have your turkey (with all the trimmings) in…Turkey! Also in France, Argentina, Australia, China…
Of the menus described in the Fodors post, I would pick the one offered by the Restaurant at Brown's, in London. Admittedly, I'm biased because of having lived in England for quite a few years (my first displacement). How I wish I'd been able to have Thanksgiving in a restaurant then!
England may not be known for its food, but something the English do superbly well are desserts, aka puddings. And for dessert on its special Thanksgiving menu, Restaurant at Brown's offers pumpkin and Peruvian gold chocolate pie. Sounds scrummy.
Something else the Brits do well are vegetarian dishes. Now I'm not a vegetarian, but I almost became one during my expat years because Brits are so creative with veggies.
Were I to indulge in the Thanksgiving meal at the Restaurant at Brown's, I might be tempted to order the Montgomery's cheddar pie instead of turkey. One reason is that I'm not a great fan of roast turkey. Another is that I'm tempted to eat cheddar any time I'm in the Birthplace of Cheddar Cheese, it being one of my all-time favorites (apologies to France).
The traditional menu keeps being tweaked
But we don't have to travel all the way across the pond, let alone to China or Australia, to find updates on the traditional Thanksgiving menu. New immigrants to the United States are constantly re-interpreting traditional Thanksgiving ingredients—I have to assume because many of them, like me, are not great fans of roast turkey.
Take, for example, food blogger Eugenia George, a Salvadorian married to an American and living in Southern California. "No one else does turkey like we do," she declares in her post Salvadorian Holiday Turkey. She uses her mother's recipe, which involves roasting and then braising the turkey in a tomato-based sauce that's packed with flavor and spices. "Dry turkey? Nope. Not this one," she writes." It's juicy, succulent, and the meat just falls off the bones."
Another good example is scifi and fantasy writer Brenda Clough, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant to the United States and a Third Culture Kid (she spent much of her childhood overseas). Like George, she credits her mother with making Thanksgiving more delicious. She says her mother figured out how to make the Thanksgiving turkey Chinese by stuffing it with sweet, glutinous Japanese short-grain rice that had been combined with shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, onion, celery, water chestnuts and dried Chinese sausage. Even though the family is now spread across the country, Clough, who lives in the D.C. area, says that every one of their Thanksgiving tables will feature some version of this sticky-rice stuffing (recipe here).
It is frequently said that the best part of Thanksgiving is the leftovers—and for those of us who've lived or traveled abroad for significant periods, the morning after Thanksgiving has become an occasion to innovate. Not your plain old turkey sandwiches for us!
Some years ago on the Displaced Nation, I reported I'd created a dish for turkey leftovers: chirashi-turkey-zushi, inspired by my second displacement (in Tokyo). Basically you substitute turkey pieces for the raw fish.
This year I noticed that Stephanie of i am a food blog provides a recipe for turkey curry udon, which, in addition to providing a quick and satisfying way to use turkey leftovers is also "guaranteed to take you straight into the streets of Tokyo, at least in your mind," she writes.
The story itself keeps getting rewritten
Just as fairy tales need updating for a new generation, so too does the Thanksgiving story.
New York-based writer Robert Sullivan recently produced a piece for Vogue on a group of six indigenous chefs, members of tribes from around North America. They met together in New York for the first time during Thanksgiving week to launch a new indigenous activist group, called the I-Collective, a kind of platform to showcase Native American food. On Thanksgiving evening itself, they hosted a dinner with some of their dishes. In effect, Sullivan says, they were rewriting Thanksgiving history.
They weren't the only professional cooks doing something creative. Chef José Andrés, a displaced Spaniard (he recently became an American citizen), spent the weeks before Thanksgiving mobilizing a massive team of chefs and volunteers in Puerto Rico to produce 30,000+ Thanksgiving meals—"what may be the island's biggest-ever Thanksgiving dinner"—for those displaced by Hurricane Maria.
Thanksgiving, after all, should belong to the chefs—and the fact that some of them are joining the national conversation about the meaning of this holiday of the displaced, bodes well for its future. While there will always be those of us—for instance, the Vietnamese American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen—with misgivings about celebrating displacement, maybe the best, the only(?) solution is simply to make the party bigger?
ML Awanohara, one of the Displaced Nation's founders and its current editor, often composes pieces of this kind for the biweekly Displaced Dispatch. In fact she will be doing something on a related theme for the upcoming issue. Why not subscribe and brighten up your global creative life every couple of weeks?
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LOCATION, LOCUTION: In trio of memoirs, Marjory McGinn celebrates life inside the heart of Greece at height of economic crisis
6 Comments Posted by The Displaced Nation Team on August 19, 2016
Tracey Warr is here with Marjory McGinn, a Scottish writer who grew up in Australia and now lives in East Sussex, England. In the course of a life spent trundling between Northern and Southern hemispheres, Marjory discovered Greece, which is the only non-English speaking country she has lived in (fortunately, she can speak some Greek). Her memoirs on her midlife Grecian adventures show a journalist's eye for mood and detail and a gift for telling a good story, as Tracey's interview will reveal.
Greetings, Displaced Nationers.
My guest this month is Marjory McGinn, who credits her childhood migration from Scotland to Australia for inspiring an interest in travel and writing and putting a nomadic spin on her adult life. After leaving school in Sydney, Australia, and a short stint working for an airline, Marjory undertook a long overseas trip, arriving firstly in the land of her birth, Scotland. "It was a rite of passage for the children of migrant families in Australia seeking to go back to the 'old country' to hunt down their roots and find the cultural links they thought they were missing," she says.
Greece was always her real destination, however, for reasons she outlines in her series of travel memoirs. The first time she visited Greece, during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, she stayed a year, working in Athens. Despite (perhaps because of?) the political unrest, it was the start of a lifelong love affair with the country. As Marjory puts it in one of her books:
"I was instantly smitten with the place. It was nothing I could easily define, but more a fusion of disparate things, all maddeningly exotic to my young mind."
Circling back to Australia in the early 1980s, Marjory became a journalist and worked for leading newspapers in Sydney as a feature writer. At the peak of her career, however, the urge to uproot took over once again. Accompanied this time by her English partner and fellow journalist, Jim, she moved back to Scotland at the dawn of the 21st century. The couple carried on working in newspapers for 10 years, but then a decline in the industry inspired them to have a mid-life odyssey in Greece, with their slightly mad Jack Russell terrier, Wallace, in tow.
At that time, of course, Greece was sliding into economic crisis and would soon have to be bailed out repeatedly by its EU partners; it was a country on the edge. But Marjorie and her two companions were undaunted, and what should have been a year living in a hillside village in the wild Mani region (the middle peninsula of the southern Peloponnese), turned into three. They spent another year in the nearby Messinian peninsula, in 2014.
"I think I have probably undertaken a serious move at the start of every decade, for different reasons, and the issue of 'where is home?' has been one that I have examined a lot and also in my three travel memoirs, in an ever restless search for the perfect location," Marjory says. "I am not sure I've found it yet, but Greece has already taken a firm grip of my heart. Although we are now back in the UK, living in England this time, Greece will always be on our future odyssey wish-list."
Marjory's first Greek travel memoir, Things Can Only Get Feta, about life in the Mani village at the start of the debt crisis, was published in 2013, followed by its sequel, Homer's Where the Heart Is. Her most recent memoir, A Scorpion in the Lemon Tree, came out last month.
Now let's talk to Marjory and hear about how she approached the challenge of capturing life in rural Greece during turbulent times to her readers.
Welcome, Marjory, to Location, Locution. What was it about living in Greece that inspired you to write a series of memoirs?
When I started writing my first travel memoir, Things Can Only Get Feta, I was living in the the hillside village of Megali Mantineia, and location—it's a traditional farming settlement—was a driving force. The Mani region of Greece is wild, unspoilt, majestic: beneath the Taygetos mountains, with olive groves spilling down hillsides to the edge of the Messinian Gulf. Like much of rural southern Greece, it also has a rawness about it. So the scenery had a powerful effect on my imagination. But the location on its own might not have inspired me to write a book. What did, however, was a chance meeting early on with an eccentric goat herder, Foteini, who has featured in my three books (that's her on the cover of the first one) and was probably their unlikely muse. She certainly inspired my journalistic curiosity, and from then on a narrative started to take shape in my mind. She had been riding down the road on her donkey in the village of Megali Mantineia, where we had just looked at a stone house for rent for a year. We weren't sure about the house, but Foteini sealed our fate by chivvying us up. "Why wouldn't you take it?" she said, abruptly. Why indeed. So we did, and it was to be the start of one of the most curious and challenging friendships of my life. The fact that I had some reasonable Greek language skills to begin with meant I was able to connect with Foteini and many of the other wonderful villagers struggling through the economic crisis, and I knew I had to write a book to somehow capture the way of life that hadn't changed that much in centuries—but I felt that due to the Greek sovereign-debt crisis, it would.
You wanted to make your readers feel what it is like to live in rural Greece at a time of economic turmoil. What was your technique for evoking the atmosphere?
For me it's always about the people and I tried to evoke the spirit of Greece through the people I befriended, and also through descriptions of their homes, their celebrations and all the funny and touching moments we shared, because really, Greeks are big characters and they dwarf other aspects like landscape—in my mind anyway. I also like to evoke an atmosphere with humour. I do tend to see humour in everything and in the three books I've homed in on quirky things—like the way Foteini always dresses in mismatched layers and the fact she likes to peel and then wash her bananas before she eats them. Things like that always cracked me up.
Which particular features create a sense of location? Landscape, culture, food?
I think culture and food in rural Greece gives a strong sense of location. This is a place brimming with customs and local events: saints' days, feast days, local fetes, and national celebrations. At any one time in Greece, someone is celebrating something. And food is at the heart of everything and it does tend to capture the essence of life, like the ritual of lamb cooked on a spit outdoors at Easter. Greeks can spend half the day sitting around a meal table with family and friends, sharing food and a modest amount of wine. What intoxicates most Greeks is company, parea, and I sometimes think the food is really just a bonus.
Can you give a brief example from your writing that illustrates place?
For our latest odyssey in Greece we lived in Koroni, in Messinia (the left-hand prong of the three Peloponnese peninsulas), a region that hasn't been written about a great deal. We lived on a hillside again in a glorious setting, ironically, right opposite the Mani and the spine of the Taygetos mountains. This was a very peaceful and unspoilt region. The passage is from my latest memoir, A Scorpion in the Lemon Tree:
The late afternoons in June were amongst the nicest hours of summer, after the midday heat had died down and especially if cooling winds made a gentle susurrus through the olive orchards from the sea below. It was impossible not to be seduced by the ease of life before the big heatwaves of July and August bore down on us all. We would often go for a late walk, taking the road that continued north past the turn-off for the villa complex. On either side were orchards with ancient olive trees standing in rows, their trunks thick and gnarled with age, but nowhere near past their usefulness. There were small farms, some no more than dry patches of land with wire enclosures for goats and turkeys, watched over by a few chained hounds.
On the right-hand side, another track ascended to a high plateau of land overlooking the gulf. This had been a village once, called Ayios Dimitrios, settled in the 18th century. It was encircled by olive trees growing right to the edge of the cliff-face with the sea below. All that remained of the village were the skeletal outlines of walls hidden in long grass and herb bushes, and a large grinding stone from the village's olive press.
It was a quiet place, with a peaceful sense of the past, of lives well lived and not quite forgotten. Under one of the olive trees a rickety wooden ladder, used for harvesting, was abandoned and leaning against the trunk, as if offering a stairway to heaven. This place came pretty close already.
In general, how well do you think you need to know a place before using it as a setting?
With a travel memoir, knowing a place well need not be an issue if being a newcomer, an ingénue, is part of the narrative. With my memoirs, I already knew a lot about Greece before I went, after living there in my youth and after many long stays. I didn't know a lot about rural Greece though, and the Mani in particular. It was a quick learning curve, however, because as journalists, Jim and I decided to freelance while there to help fund our adventure and had to connect with the region and the people in quick time, which was no great hardship. I think that helped us enormously and made it easier for me to write a truthful account of living there during the crisis. My third book, A Scorpion In The Lemon Tree, set on the Messinian peninsula, where we lived for a year in 2014, was a totally different experience, as it was a place that we knew nothing about, and more than that, was not the place we really wanted to be. How this happened, and how we dealt with it, formed the main crux of the story, so it worked to my advantage.
Which writers do you admire for the way they use location?
My first literary hero was the displaced (Polish-British) writer Joseph Conrad. The way he evokes the dark, brooding qualities of central Africa in Heart Of Darkness is spine-tinglingit's still one of my favourite books. I love Patricia Highsmith's books, especially The Talented Mr Ripley, a novel about (and by!) a displaced American. The Italian locations in the book are so sensual and pervasive, they almost become an extra character in the book.
Marjory McGinn's picks for novelists who have mastered the art of writing about place
Thanks so much, Marjory, for your answers. It's been a pleasure.
Thank you for inviting me to discuss my wanderings on your Location, Locution page for the Displaced Nation site. I enjoyed the experience.
Readers, any questions for Marjory? Please leave them in the comments below. And I have one signed copy of A Scorpion in the Lemon Tree, which will go to for FIRST reader to email me their name and postal address traceykwarr@gmail.com with "A Scorpion in the Lemon Tree" in the subject line. **Too late! THE GIVEAWAY NOW HAS A WINNER. Maybe next time?**
Meanwhile, if you would like to discover more about Marjory McGinn and her books, I suggest you visit her Big Fat Greek Odyssey author site and blog. You can also follow her on Twitter.
À bientôt! Till next time…
Thank you so much, Tracey! I've always had a soft spot for Greece myself and was worried about the country during its economic crisis. It was also hit hard by the refugee crisis, I believe. I've also never been to the Peloponnese; it sounds fascinating! —ML Awanohara
Tracey Warr is an English writer living mostly in France. She has published two medieval novels with Impress Books. She just now published, in English and French, a future fiction novella, Meanda, set on a watery exoplanet, as an Amazon Kindle ebook. Her new historical novel, Conquest: Daughter of the Last King, set in 12th century Wales and England, will be published by Impress Books in September.
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Photo credits: Top of page: The World Book (1920), by Eric Fischer via Flickr (CC BY 2.0); "Writing? Yeah." by Caleb Roenigk via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). All other photos were supplied by the author or downloaded from Pixabay, except for: 1) photo of Koroni: [Untitled – Koroni], by MihiScholl via Flickr (CC BY 2.0); photo of Joseph Conrad: Joseph Conrad via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain Mark 1.0); and 3) photo of Patricia Highsmith: Highsmith on After Dark (1988), by Open Media Ltd via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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For this fearless and feisty travel photography pro, a picture says…
5 Comments Posted by ML Awanohara on June 19, 2015
Steve Davey at a New Year's celebration in Laos, 2011 (supplied).
A Picture Says… columnist James King is away this month, so ML Awanohara is pinch hitting in his place.
Greetings, Displaced Nationers who are also photography buffs!
Once again, I am the feeble stand-in for James King, who will be back in August. That said, I am happy to be the vehicle for bringing to you such an exciting interview subject: Steve Davey, a professional photographer who is also an intrepid wanderer around Planet Earth, with the creds to prove it. Steve has produced two best-selling BBC travel books, one about unforgettable islands to escape to, the other about unforgettable places that should be on everyone's bucket list.
He has also written a photography book about festivals around the world as well as a guide to location photography.
And he has started up his own business leading travel-photography tours, about which a participant has written:
"Your love of photography and travel is infectious and I can honestly say I have never laughed or learnt so much on a holiday before!"
I recall that when I first stumbled across Steve's photography site, I found him an amiable character—on his About Page he says is is a "crap sightseer" who is "more interested in how places work and often how they don't, than in visiting monuments and museums." I could also sense his insatiable curiosity about the wider world coupled with a certain fearlessness. This mix of qualities suggests not only that he takes great photos but also that he isn't easily daunted.
Let's find out if these impressions were right by giving Steve the floor.
Hi, Steve, and welcome to the Displaced Nation. Let's start in the same way James always does: where were you born, and when did you spread your wings to start traveling?
I was born in a small village near Bristol. I longed to head out and explore the world, and as soon as I was old enough I headed off around Europe on an Inter-rail pass. That year I got as far as Hungary. The following year I got even further—to Romania in the days of Ceausescu.
Which countries have you visited thus far, and have you lived in any of them?
I have been to almost ninety countries in the course of my work. Some of these, I have been to dozens of times. I am a compulsive traveler but have always been based in London, travelling where the work takes me. As you mentioned in your introduction, I've shot a couple of books for the BBC. Each of these required taking all the photos for about twenty-five chapters in a single year. For the Unforgettable Islands book, I did the equivalent of 6.5 times around the world on 99 different flights.
So you've never been an expat?
There are some parts of the world I've visited that I would love to have lived in, but my feelings about this are always changing. So I figure it's best to base myself in London and have the option of returning to the latest place that has taken my fancy.
Well, I love London, so that's fine by me. Which part of the city do you live in?
South London. Brixton. About the closest you can come to living in a foreign land but without leaving the UK. It is an eclectic area with a multicultural flavour. My local breakfast cafe is Eritrean. There is a large Caribbean market nearby and people of every culture. My daughter's school is like a 1990s Benneton advertisement.
I lived in South London myself at one stage: Kennington. I remember Brixton well and can picture exactly what you are talking about.
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure." —Alfred North Whitehead
Moving right along to the part we've all been waiting for: a chance to appreciate a few of your photos. Can you share with us three photos that capture some of your favorite memories of the so-called "displaced" life of global travel? And for each photo, can you briefly tell us the memory that the photo captures, and why it remains special to you?
Before starting, I should tell you that I love to photograph festivals. I love the chaos and the sheer exuberance of these events. They are when a destination comes alive and when a place is at its most characteristic for the people who live there (festivals are not put on for tourists). So I'll be sharing three photos of the most memorable festivals I've had the honor of witnessing.
First, the Sonepur Mela (Cattle Fair) in the state of Bihar, India. I have attended a number of festivals in India, from the largest gathering of humans on the planet to remote gatherings in the Himalayas and elephant temple festivals in Kerala in the South, but the Sonepur Mela is one of my favourites. There's a vast animal market including the Haathi Bazaar, where elephants are lined up for sale. There's also religious bathing in the confluence of the rivers Gandak and Ganges. The Sonepur Mela attracts few tourists and I consider it one of the hidden cultural gems of India.
Elephants for sale at Sonepur Mela in India. Photo credit: Steve Davey
Wow! I have a theory that it's why we all travel: to see the "elephant." Clearly, you've done that. So what's next in the photo-fest, so to speak?
Next is one of a festival held by the Kalash people, who live in three remote valleys in the north of Pakistan on the border of Afghanistan. They trace their lineage back to the soldiers of Alexander the Great. They tend to have piercing blue eyes and fair skin. Animist non-Muslims, they drink, wear bright clothes, and permit men and women to dance together. This makes them rather unpopular in the region. Guarding this event were some 3,000 special forces commandos. Despite this, the festival atmosphere was lively and chaotic. It was one of the great privileges of my career to have experienced and photographed this event.
The Kalash people have a handle on what it means to be festive. Photo credit: Steve Davey
Steve, you are opening new windows for me on the world. I never knew about this unique tribe of people in that part of the world. So what's your last pick?
Last but not least is this incredible festival that takes place on Pentecost Island, one of the islands within the remote archipelago of Vanuatu, in Oceania. It involves the village menfolk hurling themselves from high towers, with their fall only broken by vines fixed to their ankles. I've wanted to photograph this ever since I saw the film of the so-called land divers shot by the great David Attenborough. I finally got the opportunity when working on the "unforgettable islands" book for the BBC. It was a humbling rite to witness, and I managed to shoot some stunning pictures, too! This photo represents for me the kind of doors that have been opened in my life due to being a photographer who specializes in travel. I have managed to witness, and take part in, so much more of the world than I ever would have done without a camera.
The precursor to bungee jumping, but a lot more risky. Photo credit: Steve Davey
Truly, you have seen such a wide swathe of life's rich tapestry. Being presented with what is clearly just a fraction of the photo evidence has been humbling for me.
"Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." —Gustave Flaubert
Having seen your first three photos, I expect it's a bit of a tough choice, but which are the top three locations you've most enjoyed taking photos in—and can you offer us an example of each?
It is a tough choice, so I'll give you four:
I love India. I can't get enough of the place. I love the utterly bewildering variety it offers. I have been all over the country and attended a number of religious festivals, including the Kumbh Mela—officially the largest gathering of humans on the planet. But that's not all there is. Here is a shot of a Buddhist monk in Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas:
A Thikse Buddhist monk blows a conch horn announcing prayers. Photo credit: Steve Davey
I first travelled to Laos years ago, soon after it opened up to foreign visitors. There were few roads up in the north, and the only way to get around was by boat. I love the country's atmosphere, its people—and could not resist photographing this line of monks heading out at dawn to collect food, or alms.
The tak bat, or Buddhist monks' morning collection of food (alms), in Luang Prabang. Photo credit: Steve Davey
I still love Morocco. It is the most crazy place that you can visit from London on a low-cost airline. Over the years I've noticed that the people have become less friendly to photography, making it more stressful to walk around and take pictures; but there are few places that excite me more than the Jemaa el-Fnaa square in Marrakesh. Home to snake charmers, acrobats, fake dentists, herbalists, drummers and some of the best street food this side of Delhi. Electric!
Don't make the mistake of catching the snake charmer's eyes! Photo credit: Steve Davey
I have to interrupt for a moment to say that of all the photos you've shared thus far, this is my favorite. Even though I'm not fond of rattlesnakes, it captures an atmosphere that is utterly different and seductive. Now, you said you had four?
The last one is my wildcard. I usually love hot, dusty places with people. Svalbard is my Achilles Heel. I love the cold, the wildlife and the stunning scenery. I have seen it from ships, by snowmobile and on foot. I love the ever-present danger, the midnight sun and the sense of true adventure.
Polar bear viewing in the crown of Arctic Norway. Photo credit: Steve Davey
Incredible! The Moroccan rattlesnakes definitely scared me, but, though I know I should also be scared of the polar bears, I can't help thinking how cute they look.
"Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world." —Bruno Barbey
I notice that you often photograph people, whereas quite a few of the interviewees for this column stick to scenery. Do you ever feel reserved taking photos of people, particularly when they are conscious of your doing so? How do you handle it?
I seldom photograph people without approaching them and interacting with them in some way. Spend even a small amount of time with someone and you can come up with an engaged and atmospheric portrait. This is a difficult skill to develop, but once you have mastered it then taking people's picture is a much less fraught experience and far more enjoyable for both the photographer and the person being photographed.
Here are a couple of examples where I've applied those principles:
Examples of Steve Davey's people shots: A Sadhu (holy man) at the Ganga Sagar Mela (festival) in West Bengal, India; a pilgrim at the Korzok Gustor festival in Ladakh, Northern India.
"Eyes like a shutter, mind like a lens." —Anonymous
And now switching over to the technical side of things: what kind of camera, lenses, and post-processing software do you use?
I shoot exclusively on Nikon pro camera and lenses. I shoot either with the Nikon D3X, Nikon D800 or Nikon D810. I have a cupboard of pensioned off cameras, including a brace of F4s and a brace of F5s. Cameras don't tend to hold their value: especially when I have finished with them. I am a believer in going for the utmost quality in work. To me this is the mark of a professional photographer, shooting with the best lenses and filters. I always shoot in the RAW format and post process with Adobe Lightroom.
I suspect I need to read your photography guide or take one of your tours to fully appreciate the wisdom of what you just said. But I trust you!
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance." —Anonymous
Finally, can you offer a few words of advice for wannabe photographers who are traveling the world or living abroad?
Working as a professional travel photographer is bloody tough. There are a lot of talented amateurs who shoot a few good shots and virtually give them away; and a bunch of fauxtographers who have the website and the business card but the only way that they can get work is to work for free in the hope that they can break into the industry. Best to work at something that makes you money and take photographs for pleasure. Taking pictures for love and not money is a dream for most of us professional photographers!
Thank you, Steve! It's been a memorable virtual journey into corners of the world I didn't know existed!
Readers, that was something else! I'd never even heard of some of these places before, and Steve has been to them several times over. What do you make of his vast range of travel experiences and photography advice? Any questions for him on on his photos or extensive travels? Please leave them in the comments!
If you want to get to know Steve and his photography better, I suggest you visit his photography site. You can also follow him on Facebook. You may also be interested in checking out his travel-photography books:
Unforgettable Islands to Escape to Before You Die
Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die
Around the World in 500 Festivals
Footprint Travel Photography
Or why not consider joining one of his tours and getting some hands-on photography instruction? It would be an experience to go down in the annals!
NOTE: If you are a travel-photographer and would like to be interviewed for this series, please send your information to ml@thedisplacednation.com.
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6 Comments Posted by The Displaced Nation Team on March 20, 2015
Canon zoom lens, photo credit: Morguefiles; Jamie in Bangkok, Thailand, for the Loy Krathong festival (November 2013).
James King is back with his ever-popular "A picture says…" column. English by birth, James is now semi-retired in Thailand. If you like what you see here, be sure to check out his blog, Jamoroki.
My March guest is 22-year-old Singaporean Jamie Chan. She shares stories and images from her travels on her blog, No Foreign Lands, while shooting or writing for clients in the photography, lifestyle or travel genres.
Ever since she started photography in 2009, Jamie is rarely seen without a camera. Named one of Singapore's 10 Best Young Photographers, she is an ardent traveler and enjoys documenting local cultures and lifestyles.
A specialist volunteer for Singapore International Foundation and various animal welfare groups, Jamie also finds time for good causes.
In addition, she sings in Schola Cantorum Singapore and plays the cello. She has clearly been allotted more hours than me in a day!
Hi, Jamie, and welcome to TDN. I've been looking forward to this interview since I first saw your street photography. For one so young you have travelled a fair bit and captured some great images. Can you tell us where you were born and when you spread your wings to start travelling?
I was born and raised on the sunny island of Singapore. My first solo trip was to Indonesia, when I was selected to be a photojournalist delegate of Singapore for the ASEAN Cultural Youth Camp of 2011, held in Yogyarkarta. At the time I was doing my final year project for my degree in Visual Communications (I majored in photography). After the camp finished, I decided to spend an entire month travelling around and documenting the culture and lifestyle of the peoples of Central Java. It was a big learning curve and stretched my photographic skills. I did not have the luxury of an editor to tell me what to look out for, and it was hard to get feedback from my lecturers because getting a wifi spot with Internet was like hitting the jackpot. The experience taught me to reflect, make decisions and work with what I had. I had to figure out how to shape and edit down my stories.
You were only 19 then. How did your parents feel about your decision to travel solo?
They were of course worried sick but came around eventually and even joined me for some parts of the trip. After all, what better way to spend time with your parents than on the back of a motorcycle going at God-only-knows what speed—'cause the speedometer was broken!
That must have been some trip! So once you caught the travel bug, where else did you go?
As a visual storyteller, I am always on the lookout for subjects that would make interesting photo essays. My blog, No Foreign Lands, started as a way to tell my mother that I was still alive while on the road. It has now become a platform for me to tell my stories and share my images with the world. Asia is one of my favourite places to travel. There is an incredible amount of interconnected history among the various countries. I am always learning.
I agree. Asia is a treasure trove for us storytellers and photography buffs. I only wish I had started my travels at an earlier age. So which countries have you visited so far?
There is a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson that goes:
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. The great affair is to move.
When I got back to Singapore after my Indonesia trip, I could not keep still. I was hooked on travelling, exploring and waking up to something new every day. I needed to move; soon after I graduated I booked my next trip—and I've never looked back since. Off the top of my head, I've been to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal, Indonesia, India, China and Australia.
That's eight countries in less than four years; a lot more than most people visit in a lifetime. So tell us about where you are right now and why.
I'm actually back home in Singapore! I'll mostly be based here for the remainder of 2015. That said, I can never stay put for long—I've taken three trips out of the country this year and it is only March! I am in the midst of getting a certification for my Japanese-language studies which I hope to finish by next year. Once that's done, I intend to work and stay in Japan if possible.
"As a person who deals with visuals before words…"
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. I do believe Japan is a beautiful country which offers photographers some great opportunities. So now let's see a few of your photos that capture some of your favourite memories.
One of the first stories I did in Indonesia involved visiting various "home industries" for a glimpse of what villagers do for a living. This man was performing a rather mundane job cranking out tiles with this old machine. It requires so much strength (I tried turning it and it barely budges):
This Central Javenese man makes 500 tiles by hand every day using a cranky manual machine; photo credit: Jamie Chan.
I photograph Thaipusam, a Hindu festival celebrated by Tamil communities, almost every year in Singapore; I took this picture in 2014. There is something about the spirit of the festival that never ceases to amaze me each time I document it:
Singapore's unforgettable Chetty Pusam; photo credit: Jamie Chan.
I was very fortunate to be able to make it down to the final few performances of the Melbourne Docklands Blues Festival and photographed a set by Jimi Hocking.He is an incredible musician and performer and this image just reminds me of Guitar Gods and their worshippers:
Can Jimi the Human be real? Photo credit: Jamie Chan.
My favourite places to take photos so far are India, Nepal and Australia—but picking three pictures to illustrate this was really hard as each of these countries has so many amazing places to shoot… Anyway, let me start with the Great Ocean and its apostles. While it may seem like a tourism pilgrimage, when you actually stay and watch the light, you will see that every moment reveals a new side to the gorgeous apostles:
A couple of the Twelve Apostles along Australia's Great Ocean Road; photo credit: Jamie Chan.
This is a stunning picture, Jamie. You have made a simple composition with no clutter and very imposing subjects. I love it.
Moving on to Kathmandu. Where do I begin? Within the valley wherever you are, the Himalayan mountain line is always watching you. I felt a sense of peace throughout my stay in Nepal. It is kind of hard to describe the feeling. I recommend you go there yourself. Here is one memento:
One of Kathamandu's peaceful oases; photo credit: Jamie Chan.
Ayuthaya in Thailand is incredible. I was fortunate enough to gain access to its inner chambers to photograph some of the world's oldest paintings—an incredibly humbling moment. Here's an external shot of the ruins that were left after the Burmese invasion:
The ancient Siamese kingdom of Ayuthaya; photo credit: Jamie Chan.
The more-than-a-thousand-year-old Khmer temples of northeast Thailand are really impressive and give us a glimpse of how the Khmer Empire stretched from Cambodia into what is now a large area of Thailand. Tell me, do you feel reserved about taking photos of people, particularly when they are conscious of you doing so?
I try my best to observe and read a person's body language. My camera is always with me and there is always a silent communication of sorts whenever I lift it to my eye. But there is actually nothing to feel reserved or shy about as the most that can happen is that your subject will say no or even hit you(!) if you are really obnoxious.
"I also happen to speak two and a half languages. The half language is Mandarin."
I mainly do landscape but when I do shoot people I am the same. I hate to take "posed for" photos so I hardly ever get into a discussion. I take the pic or I don't. Do you ever ask permission before taking people's photographs? How do you get around any problem of language?
Since I am always reading a person's body language before I shoot, I generally do not ask for permission. If I do ask and do not speak their language, I rely on improvised sign language—pointing to my camera and nodding with a big smile on my face. It's worked so far.
Yes, most definitely. As cliché as this may sound, the camera allows us to stop time for a split second and record the moment, preserve a memory.
So when did you realise the power of photography, and how has it changed you?
It happened by accident, like so many things in life, while I was looking through old photos of my family. I realised then that if no one had taken these photos, I would never have remembered how my mum looked like all those years ago.
"Who says the iPhone can't photograph the moon!"
I know what you mean. For me, a picture is a diary of an event in visual form. The photographer "writes" about it in a way no one else could.Now for the technical stuff. What kind of camera and lenses you use?
I work with a rangefinder, the Leica M-E. My 35mm Summilux lens is stuck to the camera body most of the time as it is just such a beautiful focal length which allows me to respond quickly to different situations. On certain occasions, maybe twice a year, I will use the 50mm Summilux just to get a tighter shot. Other than that, my iPhone 5s takes wicked macro shots.
That's interesting because although I have become attached to the versatility of my 18–55mm Canon lens there are times when I can't get in close enough, so I need to add say a 70–200mm to my kit. And now I need an iPhone 5s!!!!! And which software do you use for post-processing?
I use Lightroom for post processing as I shoot entirely in raw image format.
"The perfect camera is the one with you."
Join the club. Finally, do you have any advice for wannabe photographers who are traveling or living abroad?
I'm not sure what advice I can give for wannabe photographers, though that hoary old chestnut "Don't quit your day job" has just now floated into my mind. I say that because I sense that the golden age of photography is mostly over. Having said that, if you have the passion and perseverance to live, breathe and eat photography, press on and live it. But also remember that technology has made it so much easier to learn a new creative skill. Try your hand at video, writing or music. Use your creativity, mash them all together, and see what you come up with. At the end of the day, as long as your art moves someone and you are able to live comfortably with what you have, you know you are on the right track.
I actually think that is very good non-technical advice Jamie and I'd like to thank you for taking the time to tell your story so far in this interview. I am sure you will, undoubtedly, inspire other young and maybe not so young people.
Editor's note: All subheds are excerpted from Jamie's blog.
Readers, what do you make of Jamie's experiences? If you have any questions for her on his travels and/or photos, please leave them in the comments!
If you want to get to know Jamie and her creative works better, I suggest you visit her photography site and check out her posts on her photography/travel blog, No Foreign Lands. You can also follow her on twitter and Instagram and/or like her blog's Facebook page.
(If you are a travel-photographer and would like to be interviewed by James for this series, please send your information to ml@thedisplacednation.com.)
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GLOBAL FOOD GOSSIP: 'Tis the season to be jolly—and for that I recommend crunchy sweet potatoes
Leave a comment Posted by The Displaced Nation Team on December 9, 2014
Joanna Masters-Maggs portrait; "Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole," by Vox Efx and "Thanksgiving feast," by Star Mama, both via Flickr (CC-BY 2.0).
Joanna Masters-Maggs was displaced from her native England 17 years ago, and has since attempted to re-place herself in the USA, Holland, Brazil, Malaysia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and now France. She describes herself as a "food gossip", saying: "I've always enjoyed cooking and trying out new recipes. Overseas, I am curious as to what people buy and from where. What is in the baskets of my fellow shoppers? What do they eat when they go home at night?"
Last month I had intended to contribute a pleasant little piece invoking "memories of Thanksgivings past"—but I am afraid I just wasn't feeling in a terribly thankful sort of mood.
That was a shame, really, as Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays I have been lucky enough to experience overseas that my crabby little heart actually embraces. As a foreigner living in the United States, my experience could be likened to that of a grateful orphan, adopted warmly by a family as a vaguely interesting addition to proceedings.
Really, what is there not to like? Good food, and plenty of it, a lot of wine, usually in the host family's nice crystal—and ABSOLUTELY NO PRESENT-GIVING other than generous hostess gifts.
Et tu, le shopping?
It was actually the contemplation of present-BUYING that prompted my spell of bad humour. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving—which Americans traditionally spend at pre-Christmas sales, in a frenzy that can take on the appearance of contact sports with credit cards—has now arrived in France, my current home.
France!
It seems that even the French have lost their ability to say non to foreign habits that threaten their own culture.
Le shopping, too. 😦
Veggies, glorious veggies!
All of that said, I regret that I never sat down and wrote the column I originally had in mind. Soon after I made that decision, the thought of those cosy Thanksgivings where outdoor grey light gives way to the warmth of candles and fires began to get the better of my jour noir.
Especially when I remembered the BEST THING OF ALL about Thanksgiving: it affords an opportunity for Americans to demonstrate their magical ability to convert healthy, vitamin-brimming vegetables into artery-clogging, heart-stopping not-much-time-left-bombs.
The general principle seems to be to cook out as much of the vegetable's vitamin content as possible, along with its texture and possibly colour. Next comes the flavour makeover. Those green beans must taste of ham hock and bacon, not bean. The loss of beanly texture is viewed as desirable—and really, who enjoys the blackboard squeak of green beans on teeth?
However, I cannot approve of the makeover given to the sweet potato, whose texture when cooked is always soft. Sweet potatoes require a little more bite—and how!
The joy of this vegetable is that, even after the rather horrifying treatment meted out to it, often involving marshmallows, the B vitamins remain intact allowing it to count as a health food still.
God Bless America indeed.
Let's talk turkey, or where's the beef?
If there are to be any complaints about Thanksgiving and, given my heritage, there must be complaints, it would be about the bird. As my own father once said of Christmas lunch in the UK:
If it's meant to be a fancy there should be proper meat.
For him this means beef, I believe. I'm open to other meats, other birds even, but I agree with my dad's sentiment that the Turkey is a duffer in pretty much every respect. Even at its most organic, just shot and plucked best, it's just a stomach filler for crowds. Does anyone, I wonder, ever consider serving two smaller but glorious geese rather than one ho hum turkey?
On the bright side, though, who needs meat at all when you can have sides like green-bean-and-bacon casserole?
Since my mood has lifted somewhat with all this talk of misbehaving veggies, I have decided to share the cheer by offering you the sweet potato recipe I love. It was given to me years ago and involves brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon baked to a crisp and crumble like finish—plenty of crunch and bite!
It's wonderful for Christmas and it's wonderful anytime. Bon appétit!
½ kilo (just over a pound) of sweet potatoes
115g (half a cup) white sugar
50g (3.5 tbsp) butter
120 ml (half a cup) of milk
1tsp of cinnamon powder
100g (half a cup) brown sugar
40 g (one third a cup) plain flour
40g (one third of a stick) butter
140 g (around one and one third cups) chopped pecans—you can substitute with other nuts if necessary, but I do think pecan is the best for this as it has a pleasing sweetness. (Walnuts, the natural substitute, can be a little bitter.)
Cover sweet potatoes with cold water and bring to boil. Cook gently until tender.
Mash sweet potatoes with the sugar, beaten eggs, salt, butter milk and vanilla extract if desired.
Spread the sweet potato mixture into a casserole dish measuring 22 x 33 centimeters (8.5″ x 13″).
Preheat the oven to 165°C (around 350ºF).
To make the topping, rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and nuts. Sprinkle evenly over the potato mixture.
Bake for half an hour until golden brown—keep an eye on it, though, as pecans burn easily.
Fellow Food Gossips,do you have any post-Thanksgiving (or pre-Christmas) food stories & recipes to share? And also please let us know: do you agree with Joanna's take on the sweet potato?
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The opening ceremony of the London Olympics — from an expat who witnessed Beijing's spectacle firsthand
7 Comments Posted by The Displaced Nation Team on July 30, 2012
As regular readers will know, The Displaced Nation has some special connections to Britain. We therefore held our collective breath when the Olympic ceremony opened on Friday evening in London. How would the Brits measure up to the Chinese extravaganza of four years ago? Britain is after all a declining power — which is not exactly true of China! Today we turn to guest poster Shannon Young, an expat in Hong Kong who has written a book about her firsthand experience of attending the Beijing Games, for a verdict.
Four years ago, 2,008 drummers opened the Summer Olympics in Beijing with a thunderous rhythm heard 'round the world. Spectacular feats of coordination, drama and energy followed, wowing the world with the precision and ambition of the production.
Heralded as the greatest live performance in history, Beijing's opening ceremony was a tough act to follow.
It was a tough act for me to follow as well. I'd been in the stands as the rumble of the drums swelled through Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium. But as the opening ceremony of the London Games was about to begin, I found myself at the kitchen table of my grandparents' home in Oregon (I am back in the United States for a visit) watching a live stream on my computer.
Oh we can be heroes…just for one day
A landscape that looked rather like a shire appeared, complete with sheep and idyllically dressed country folk. The agrarian scene was quickly replaced with the frenetic energy of the Industrial Revolution, but the contrast was obvious: London was not trying to "beat" China.
Quirky, funny and nuanced. Those three words characterize the July 27th, 2012, ceremony. It displayed the heart and humor for which the British are famous — especially in the form of Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean), whose rendition of "Chariots of Fire" completely stole the show.
London brought the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics back down to a human level. It was no Beijing, but it was the kind of show that speaks to people.
Famous for such films as Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle infused the London ceremony with a cinematic flare.
Like many other spectators around the world, I loved the short film in which James Bond picked up Queen Elizabeth in a helicopter, which they (or their stunt doubles) proceeded to jump out of, for their "entrance" into the stadium.
There were other nods to cinematography throughout the production, including to Boyle's own films, mixing the mediums of live performance and cinema. The costumes were intricate when viewed through a zoomed-in camera, but I had to wonder how much of this was for the camera and not the live audience. The spectators in the stands may not have been able to enjoy the details.
Only rock 'n roll (but I like it)
There was a rock-and-roll feeling to the show. The dance numbers were more like big parties than expertly timed performances. They were full of mini-storylines and surprises.
The segment that began with a nightmare of the villains of children's literature ended with the raucous defeat of a gigantic Lord Voldemort by none other than Mary Poppins.
The soundtrack was fun and familiar, liberally paying homage to Britain's many contributions to culture.
A high-octane production like the Olympics opening ceremony needs to have quiet moments, too.
In Beijing there were eerie performances, such as a single dancer gliding across a glowing scroll.
In London, the quiet moments were solemn. There was a moving dance performance dedicated to the victims of the July 7th bombings on London transport, and a moment of silence for those who fell in the two world wars.
New takes on old classics
The Parade of Nations was faster than usual, bringing 204 teams into the stadium in record time.
The production culminated in the lighting of the torch, which was done in a particularly elegant fashion. David Beckham delivered the torch to retired British rower Sir Stephen Redgrave in a neon speedboat on the Thames.
In a touching act, Britain's venerated Olympian then delivered the torch to seven promising young athletes, who lit the torch together. The torch itself was composed of many copper petals which rose together on long stems to create the Olympic cauldron.
London's opening ceremony drew many laughs and perhaps a few tears. There weren't as many breathtaking moments as in Beijing, but the show was like the British: quirky, personable, and utterly self-assured.
Shannon Young is an American writer currently living in Hong Kong. She is the author of The Olympics Beat: A Spectator's Memoir of Beijing. She writes a blog called A Kindle in Hong Kong and tweets @ShannonYoungHK.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We will be giving away several copies of Shannon Young's mini travel memoir of the Beijing Olympics this month. The first will go to a commenter on this post — please share your favorite moment from London's opening ceremony, or a memorable moment from a previous Olympics.
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Images: A London Olympics sign courtesy e-costa on Flickr; author Shannon Young and two of her photos from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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