Entries Tagged as ‘Latinos’

May 15, 2008

The wife: Adventures in Ethnoculinary delights

One of my great joys in life is mocking my wife’s primitive ways in the kitchen. We live minutes away from several cooking stores that sell the latest in kitchen gadgetry, but no!, my wife is content, even joyful at the prospect of grinding pepper in late grandmother’s molcajete when she needs it.

I don’t have [...]

April 2, 2008

Cultural quiz time: What is this?

 
Is the object in the above photo a:

Potato masher
Bean masher
An international incident during the holidays
All of the above
Rear turn signal cover from a ‘53 Packard.

I’ll discuss the answers along with my own observations later this week.

September 5, 2007

From the Pew Forum: Hispanic Churches Add English Services

Editor’s note: the link for the full story is no longer active. Newsvine has the article, which you may access here.
This little gem arrived Aug. 28 from my Pew Forum feed. It deals with a lot of topics found in my congregation. As we grow and take on more English-speaking members, we are learning how [...]

August 18, 2007

Porto’s

The missus is at work educating the not-so-little fifth-graders while I sip an insanely powerful cup of coffee from my Stars & Stripes staffer mug. This coffee is no joke. Even now, I can feel myself recovering from a 7-hour drive Sunday from the in-law’s house in San Bernardino.
Under normal circumstances, it’s a 6-hour drive. [...]

May 8, 2007

Flotsam and Jetsam

A few unresolved thoughts from Monday, as I sit at the kitchen table and feast on avena (as it was known in my house as a child), toast with jam and organic coffee:

I suppose I’m such an outspoken critic of injustice because I watched my mother practice this principle for all of my life. My [...]

May 3, 2007

Protected: Pew Forum: Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion

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