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Andrew McDaniel and I both worked our first KBC Augusta Tournament in August 2013.1 We have a tradition of going to lunch at Natty Dread, a beachside jerk chicken and hamburger shop (shack?

I enjoyed a delicious lunch of smørrebrød on a recent visit to Denmark, followed by a dessert of rødgrød med fløde. The Wikipedia entry for rødgrød cautions that “the name of the dish in Danish features many of the elements that make Danish pronunciation difficult for non-native speakers.

I’m not very good at the Thai language, but I know a good place when I see it. There is a branch of this shop in the provincial capital, serving delicious coconut ice cream with an assortment of condiments.

The 15th International Turfgrass Research Conference is this month in Karuizawa, Japan. A few delegates have asked if I have some advice about foods to try for those making their first visit to Japan.

I arrived home this afternoon after a long trip. The calendar on my office door was still showing February. Of course it would be, because that’s when I last departed.

These are the books I read in 2024. I’ve included a few notes. Judgment at Tokyo, by Gary Bass. This was a sprawling book. And a long one. I read it on my Kindle, and perhaps that made it seem even longer.

Forgive me if I’ve reviewed this one previously. I checked the reviews over the past few years, and I don’t find it. I’ve been cutting back on the potato chips. But I’ve been cutting back on the reviews more extensively than I have been cutting back on the new flavors.

I don’t have any more flights planned in 2024, so I pulled up my R script from last year to generate a map of the flights I made this year. Then I wondered what the flights would look like for the past decade, from 2015 through 2024.

I can still remember a profound disappointment with an ice cream flavor I chose once, and only once, as a child. We had gone to the grocery store, and I’d seen a new flavor of ice cream—a granola flavor.

For such a dangerous fruit, durian sure is a big business. An article in the NY Times leads with this: “lust for durian is creating fortunes in Southeast Asia”. The value of durian exported from SE Asia into China was $6.