0 The EPoP Cooks Listener Challenge!

My most favorite podcast ever is Travis Sherry’s Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast, and if you’ve been hanging around my website here looking for some good travel tips, then you’d definitely also love Trav’s podcast which always has a ton of them!  CLICK HERE to open up his podcast page and check it out.

So one of Trav’s recent podcast guests was Sasha Martin, from GlobalTableAdventure.com.  A few years ago, Sasha set out to cook a meal from every single country in the world–all 196 of them–and she did it!  On her blog, she recorded her quest and shared all of her recipes.  Trav and Sasha shared a listener challenge on the podcast to get as many people as possible to cook one or both of two possible recipes.   CLICK HERE to open the show notes page for the episode on Extra Pack of Peanuts.  I was glad that both options were vegetarian, and chose to try the Roasted Pumpkin Salad with Arugula and Chevre, which comes from Argentina (I’ll attempt the Guinness Cake from Ireland some other day). Continue reading

0 August 2014: Travel for Teachers

August 2014: Travel for Teachers

UPDATE: This issue is now available for sale in PDF format.  CLICK HERE to buy it now!

This month’s issue was compiled with teachers in mind.  As they return to their classrooms this month, I’d like to plant a little seed of excitement for the coming year.  How about a trip abroad next summer?  Not possible on a teacher’s salary, you say? I hope that the articles in this issue will convince teachers and others that not only is it possible, but as a teacher, travel can revitalize not just you but your classroom lessons as well.

As a fellow teacher, I have a special place in my heart for educators.   I also have a special place in my heart for travel, because I believe that the more we learn about our world and teach others about it, the less we will fear people who are different from us, and as the young minds of today learn to appreciate, understand, and tolerate those who are different from them, the world can be transformed into a more peaceful place.  Is this a trifle naïve?  Perhaps, but it is my biggest dream. Continue reading