Jane Merryman

“Don’t eat that!”
I have just expressed a desire to order my first helping of plov, the Uzbek national dish of rice and various combinations of vegetables, fruit, nuts, and meat—each region proud of its unique concoction.
“It’s too heavy, too oily, for your American stomach. Work up to it,” says my guide, Nail, in his version […]

A few years ago, on a lonely road in the highlands of Scotland , I did something I never do at home—I got into a car with two men I didn’t know.
On the fourth day of a trek on the West Highland Way, from Loch Lomond to Fort William, the group leader gave us a […]