Articles
Kathmandu’s Custom Cake Makers
Friday Issue 163
April 2013
Cakes! From the simplest of ingredients—a little bit of flour, sugar, oil or butter, a few eggs (or a substitute), a rising agent, plus the flavoring of your choice. With these ingredients that can be found in almost any home, a miraculous alchemy transforms them into something so much greater than the sum of its parts: cake.
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A Winter’s Treat
ECS Nepal
January 2013
The weather’s getting colder, and people’s minds are turning to hearty, warming winter fare. There’s another kind of winter food though, special because it is made only in the cold season. It’s also exceptional in that it takes a full day’s work to make, and then a whole night to set. I am speaking of course of the Newari specialties takha: and sanyakhunya.
Eating in Kathmandu (and Lalitupur, too!)
ECS Nepal
July 2012
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Sustainable Solutions
ECS Nepal
January 2012
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Ghosts on Everest
ECS Nepal
March 2011
As I walked along the edge of the hill lonely and desolate, I saw a line of rock formations, man-made. Then more. Then metal plaques attached to huge rocks. I bent over and began to read. Lives I had never heard of. Some had died here, mountaineering or even just trekking. Others had once climbed here and died elsewhere, but this spot had been chosen to commemorate them.
