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Losing, Lost, Finding, Found
The compass originates in China during the Han Dynasty (2nd c BC-1st c AD), and was called a “south-governor,” used not for navigation but fortune...
Tacos Arabes
In the late 1990s, my husband and I moved to Guadalajara, Mexico as he was attending the local medical school. In our early twenties, California-raised...
The Essence of Bourdain
In the aftermath of a catastrophe, such as a suicide, it is so much easier to be reminiscent and melancholy. We wallow in the why...
Bitter Melon in Oregon
A tropical to subtropical vine, bitter melon (Momordica charantia) is one of the more challenging plants I attempt in our short growing season in northeastern...
Adventures in the French Digestive Tract
The cliché is that the French are obsessed with sex. But I would argue that if the French, and Parisians in particular, are fixated on...
Partition, Migration and Immigration as Travel Stories: Stories of Three Women Who Wro(i)te
Where I come from, we talk about distance in memories. Remember when your mother tied the suitcase with a chain to the railway berth so...
Bola Nuts
The sun was hot on the back of my neck. Hunger stretched and yawned like an expectant embryo needing nourishment in my belly. I unwrapped...
When the Cock Crows
“You shouldn’t have done it,” whispered the willowy brunette standing across from me. She was staring at the book she held in her hands, not...
The Taste of Healing
At the age of 28, in 1992, I was told I had HIV and maybe “a good five years” to live. By the time the...
Burrata in Chinatown
From my seat at the kitchen table, I watched my mother pick up a bright red pepper from her baking sheet, its skin shrivelled and...
Never Say Never
Over 1,200 years ago, disgruntled Norse Viking sailed northward and started a new society, complete with a parliament, on an island they called Snæland, “land...
Cool Enough
Roll. Pinch. Smash. Roll. All in one swift smooth motion, a chef rolled dough into cylinders, pinched off equally-sized chunks, smashed each with the palm...
Jesus, Uno, Kimchi Pizza
It was the start of a three-day Memorial Day weekend. I stood there leaning on the counter, watching my folks’ forest green Lincoln Continental pull...
Food for the inner child
My first meaningful encounter with food took place on the French Riviera in the summer of 1991. I don’t remember it, but the story has...
Blue Cheese Blues
My brother and I waited until we knew we were alone, and darted into the little pantry. The old fridge hummed and hissed and gurgled...
Bio: Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee
“Exciting food and travel writing invites the reader to an open seat at the global dining table. It doesn’t look with an exotic gaze into...
Calls
Panorama is open for submissions to Poetry, Fiction (Travel and Flash Fiction), Nonfiction (General and Speculative, Travel Flash, Memoir, New Nature Writing, Decolonising Travel, Eaten/Gastronomy,...