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Portugal

Portuguese Explorers

...The Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail to India, they discovered Brazil and it was a Portuguese captain who led the first successful voyage around the world. The Portuguese motivation for sailing around Africa to India was to control the spice trade. Prince Henry the Navigator funded and organized step-by-step voyages around Africa to India...

Cabo Espichel, Portugal

...We’ve rented a house for two weeks on the foggy cliffs of the sparsely-populated Cabo Espichel in Portugal. The cape is the western-most tip of Europe and juts out into the cantankerous Atlantic Ocean. Though presently the cape is home to only a few small, wind-swept villages and farming country side, historically it held great importance as the launching point for many of the western world’s most important exploratory missions. The first Europeans ever to see the Americas launched from here back in their Golden Age of Exploration. They actually first landed in Porto Seguro, Brazil, where we were based three countries ago. After six months in South America, it has been very interesting to hear the history from the European perspective…...

Homeschool Corner

...Feijoada is a popular dish in both Portugal and Brazil, though the Brazilian version features black beans. When we were living in Cabo Espichel, Portugal, a neighbor, who knew I was experimenting with Portuguese cooking, gave me a stack of cooking magazines written, of course, in Portuguese. They were a wealth of information about Portuguese home cooking as well as great language practice. I was searching for a recipe with rabbit because in Portugal rabbit is commonly found in butcher shops and good rabbit not only tastes wonderful but (for me) has a romantically rustic appeal...

Portuguese Feijoada

Rabbit white bean stew

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"Hamams and Sacrificial Altars”

SLAB, Fall 2016

"Which God Is Ours"

Summer 2016 Colere

"The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam" 2015 Literal Latte Essay Award

"Halloween in Bulgaria"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Awards

"Thanksgiving on the Bosphorus"

Santa Fe Writers Project, February 2016:

"Garlic Naan for Hanuman"

Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition 2015:

"Escaping the Swine Flu, Nearly"

Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2015:

"Farewell to the Highlands"

Your Life Is A Trip, October 2015:

"Homeward Bound"

Your Life Is A Trip, May 2015:

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"Escaping the Great Mosque of Uqba" World Press Review, April 2015:

"Homeschooling on the Road"

International Living, August 2014:

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Santa Fe New Mexican, March 2015:

"Which God Is Ours?"

2015 Travelers' Tales Solas Award and

published in Asia Literary Review, Spring 2015:

"The Scorpion Whisperer"

Eventus Magazine, June 2014:

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