Asian Singles’ Dating

I had the good fortune of recently being in San Francisco, and toured the Asian Art Museum shortly after this exhibit opened. Hidden Treasures highlights four archaeological sites in the northern part of Afghanistan, ranging from 2200 BCE to 200 CE. It was co-organized by the National Geographic Society and the National Gallery of Art. The finds highlighted were excavated from the 1930s to the late 1970s. Because of the Soviet invasion of 1979, Afghani civil wars, and the Taliban decimation af

Fragment of a bowl depicting bearded bulls (Tepe Fullol), 2200–1900 BCE, gold, National Museum of Afghanistan. ©Thierry Ollivier / Musée Guimet. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.-

In Asia, food is more than sustenance. It’s medicine. It’s the key to long life. The world’s oldest healing sciences, such as Ayurveda, rely on diet as a means to healthy body, mind and spirit. “Without a proper diet, medicines are of no use; with a proper diet, medicines are unnecessary,” notes the Charaka Samhita, the oldest authoritative text on Ayurveda, dating perhaps as far back as 400 BCE. I love that quote. Somehow, somewhere along the line, we seem to have morphed into a pill societ