Michelle Gross
Travel, Food and Lifestyle Reporter at Freelance
Travel Journalist. Always hungry.
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5 days ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Michelle Gross
As the legend goes, Japan’s Ryukyu Islands were created by the goddess Amamikyo, who is believed to have descended from the heavens and into the sea, just off the southern coast of what is now known as the main island of Okinawa. The Ryukyu Islands, located in the East China Sea, flourished for some 450-years as the semi-independent Ryukyu Kingdom.
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6 days ago |
bbc.co.uk | Michelle Gross
For 450 years, the little-known Ryukyu Kingdom thrived in what is now Japan. Now, after nearly vanishing, its unique fusion cuisine is being revived. "You can learn a lot about a person by looking at their tongue," Yukie Miyaguni tells me in the kitchen-classroom of her second-storey apartment in Uruma, a city on the Japanese island of Okinawa. I've taken a few cooking classes over the years, but this is the first time anyone's ever asked to examine my tongue.
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6 days ago |
flipboard.com | Michelle Gross
NowBeijing says the US is touting Cold War mentality after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls China a threat to the region. China has warned the United States against “playing with fire” over Taiwan in response to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling the Asian power a “threat to the region” at a …
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1 week ago |
spokesman-recorder.com | Michelle Gross
May 25, 2020 was an unusual Memorial Day. Covid-19 was in full bloom and everything was shut down. I had planned to grill dinner that evening and celebrate my daughter’s birthday with her the next day. Then, suddenly, my phone started blowing up with texts urging me to watch a video on Facebook. It was the now-infamous footage captured by Darnella Frazier.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Michelle Gross
In an age when green is the new glam of the hospitality world, and the sight of single-use plastics feels like a relic of the past, (at least across most in the know eco-forward hotels these days) one hotel brand is raising the sustainability bar even higher with the opening of a new ‘carbon-positive’ hotel called Populus Seattle this week.
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