Photo Archive Part One

These photos were taken on or around February 1st at a cookout on the roof of an eleven-story building in Chengdu. Only recently returned to China from Kathmandu, I had met these American college students just days before I decided to purchase two pounds of lamb leg (at roughly $1.25/lb). I also roasted beef kabobs and pork ribs.

Cooking with wine

Carving the roast beast

Chengdu served as my home base during a week-long excursion into northern Sichuan's Aba Prefecture. I had been living out of my modest backpack in Nepal since before New Years. I spent the majority of this vacation from my vacation loafing around with BurningMan kid Zander and underground hip hop aficionado Scott.

Medium-Rare: Chef's Choice

The following week I stewed the remainder of the frozen leg for Boston Emily's twenty-first birthday.

These are probably the most recent photos available of each of the Smith twins. I'm sure Mike (and Shuchin) would have been aghast at such atavistic disregard for sentient life.