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American Culinary Adventures – Finnish Style

At the Embassy’s 4th of July celebration, food united people as many guests were willing to get their hands a little dirty to enjoy the feast of Louisiana-style crayfish, shrimp and jambalaya. Food also played an important role during my recent weekend trip to a cozy and idyllic summer cottage near Loviisa. The meals that my [...]

Ambassador’s Journal: November 4, 2009

Returning to Jyväskylä. One of the first trips I made after arriving in Finland just over two months ago was to Jyväskylä to attend a two day Bio-Energy conference there. Anyone who cares about technology (and of course for me that means technology applied to address energy and environmental problems) knows that two days in [...]

USAID Making Development Clean and Green

Having lived in Africa for six years, I consider myself a veteran traveler to the continent.  This is particularly true of Mali in West Africa where I spent the last two weeks visiting good friends living in the city of Kayes. As this is my sixth or seventh trip to Mali (I have lost count), [...]