Philip Robert

There was a shriek of panic on the Comal river. The kind of sound that silences everything else, and makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. It was Sunday afternoon. I was swimming on the river with my cousin Michael Lebeau. We were at a place called “the tube chute,” [...]

Erin of The Skinny Gourmet recently posted a great story about the food that families around the world eat each week. Her post What the World Eats Each Week gives an excellent synopsis of the book Hungry Planet. She lists several photos like the one up top of the Ahmed family of Cairo, Egypt. If [...]