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December 27, 2017The Next Dinner Party

That Certain Christmas Sadness

Every year at Christmastime, I watch four movies. The 1990s version of Little Women, which isn’t a Christmas movie per se, but is positively dripping with the Christmas spirit, despite the Marches being “temperance people.” National Lampoons Christmas Vacation because I’m an American. Love Actually, because I pine for the simpler days of meeting loved […]

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December 17, 2017December 18, 2017The Next Dinner Party

A Gap Year in Morocco

I recently posted that our next post is Algiers, Algeria, but we just learned before we land there for a two-year tour, we’ll be in Rabat, Morocco for one year! And I am so excited about it.  For the food, for the climate, for the chance to explore a colorful new country. And for the […]

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November 11, 2017November 14, 2017The Next Dinner Party

Our Sleek and Modern Jerusalem Apartment

It’s finally here: The day when I feel happy enough about the state of our apartment to take pictures and share them with you all! When we first arrived to Jerusalem (almost two years ago to the day), I was in tears when I saw our drab apartment out in the West Jerusalem suburbs, but […]

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October 30, 2017February 25, 2018The Next Dinner Party

Our Next Post is Algiers

Yes, that Mediterranean city you may or may not have heard of that is located in the North African country of Algeria. That is where we will be living from 2019-2021. I’m not super stoked, but I’m not dreading it or anything. Literally every one of our friends and colleagues here in Jerusalem thinks it’s […]

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October 12, 2017July 4, 2018The Next Dinner Party

Bethlehem Beyond the Church

Every day, tour buses come to Bethlehem, drop off a load of passengers at the Church of the Nativity, and then load them back up and leave Bethlehem and the West Bank. For many, all they see of Bethlehem is the church (a very famous church, granted). After living a few miles down the road […]

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July 9, 2017July 10, 2018The Next Dinner Party

Terraces, Olives Trees, and Roman Baths in Battir

There’s a quiet, terraced, Arab village outside of Bethlehem called Battir where water from a cold spring flows through an ancient water system to hydrate abundant olive trees and vegetables that have grown here for thousands of years. Battir is off-limits to me for personal travel, as are many towns in the West Bank and […]

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June 23, 2017June 23, 2017The Next Dinner Party

Nothing a Literary Lecture Won’t Fix

A little more than a year ago, I was feeling out of sorts and depressed. Trying to make a life in Jerusalem, write my book, and even just fill my days felt like a struggle. Once, I burst into tears in my Arabic class and my teacher took my outside and was like “What is […]

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June 9, 2017June 9, 2017The Next Dinner Party

Sabih in the City

Falafel and shawarma: You know ’em, you love ’em. But I’d like to introduce you to another mouthwatering sandwich commonly found in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: The sabih. I eat sabih (or sabich – it’s that aspirated sound that somewhere between a “k” and an “h” in English) all the time, and I’m a little […]

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May 5, 2017May 5, 2017The Next Dinner Party

Easter and Passover in Jerusalem

Jews around the world say “Next year in Jerusalem!” at the end of the Passover seder. I know because, while I’m not Jewish, I’ve joined Mr. Em in Jerusalem’s family seders pretty much since I’ve known him (and we even co-hosted a particularly interesting one at our hotelpartment in Yemen).  I’ve now spent two Passovers in […]

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April 18, 2017September 16, 2019The Next Dinner Party

There are Two Sides to Every Hike

On the first day of Passover, a group of friends and I went on a hike. Our plan was to start just outside of Jerusalem in an Israeli National Park and end up in the Palestinian town of Jericho. We figured it would take us about six hours, because some ultra-fit friends said they ran […]

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I worried that three days camping in the Sahara wilderness would be too much but it wasn’t enough. I visited Djanet in November, 2021 and I hope to go back someday. It captured my heart. New blog post up on that excellent trip (TheNextDinnerParty.com)
One last Algiers yacht ride. It’s easy to forget I live on the Mediterranean Sea but I want to remember.
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, Kathy, a great cook, who on the day I became a vegetarian at 13, started making me meatless versions of whatever she was making for the family. She always fueled my creative projects, from drawing patterns for the Troll clothes I had a real phase with, to sewing me a Renaissance dress when I (for some reason) chose to be a famous Italian prostitute for a school project, to setting up a mock dorm room in the basement months before I left for college so I could envision my new well-designed room. When I moved to DC, we talked on the phone after every job interview, roommate interview, and breakup. In short, she supports me in all I do, always has. (She was also a bad ass boss who started at the bottom and left her company as a VP). Being far from her in Michigan for the past 10 years has not been easy. She’s the top of the list of people I’m most excited to spend more time with when we move back to the US in a few months.
From a cappuccino to a chenin blanc on a sunny Paris day.
Just spend a lovely three days in the Loire Valley, biking around and stopping at castles. My favorite type of vacation: active enough to not feel guilty about all the cheese and wine.
Our Zanzibar trip, while fun, was a little weird, partly on account of a message we received accusing us of being well-known swingers. Read about Sexy & Seedy Zanzibar in a new post in my blog, TheNextDinnerParty.com
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