A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.