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Continue reading →: Letters from Syria: Freya Stark’s Captivating Glimpse into the 1920s Middle EastBooks provide an endless source of fascination about the world. One can never get tired of ‘time traveling’ by reading novels whose plots are centuries behind our backs. Such was my experience last summer when I read Letters from Syria, a splendid collection of letters written by Freya Stark during…
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Continue reading →: What You Should Know Before Learning KoreanWhat do we really know about the Korean language? Those who have interacted with native speakers might agree that it seems like a challenging language. It gives the impression of being difficult, with an unfamiliar, hieroglyph-like alphabet that seems hard to memorize and decipher. And if one has made a…
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Continue reading →: What is Choco Pie and How it Reached Millions of Sweet Tooth EnthusiastsWhen thinking of South Korea multinational corporations, one might associate them with heavy industry, shipbuilding, automobiles, or technical and industrial equipment – certainly not with food. Today we are talking about Orion Corporation, the leading Korean confectionery manufacturer that made Choco Pie famous. The original recipe for the dessert made…
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Continue reading →: The Post-War ‘Small Cars’: How Vespa Became a Symbol of Italian CultureAt the end of World War II, Italy was in a devastating state – widespread destruction, cities in ruins, damaged infrastructure and a mourning population struggling to put bread on the table. The disturbing image of war-torn Italy eventually gave way to reconstruction and the normalization of life. By 1948,…
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Continue reading →: Jennie Gerhardt: Theodore Dreiser’s Portrait of Class and DespairA compelling, exhaustive narrative of a young American woman of German origins, trapped between two realities that collide, but never intertwine. Jennie Gerhardt is the kind of story you might grow fond of reading to get acquainted with the era of a rapidly industrializing America, marked by a relatively poor…
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