December 18, 2023 – Peace Corps Worldwide

QUICK & EASY THAI: 70 EVERYDAY RECIPES by Nancie McDermott (Thailand)

Dec 18 2023

About the author Nancie McDermott (Thailand 1975-78) is a North Carolina native, born in Burlington, raised in High Point, and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has written 13 cookbooks. Nancie’s first 10 cookbooks focus on Asian kitchens, Her three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand gave her a lifelong love for the cuisines, history and cultures of Asia, and she has spent the last twenty years cooking, reading, traveling, writing, and teaching about Asian food. Since moving back home to North Carolina in 1999, she has written three more cookbooks which focus on recipes of the American South, the place she fell in love with cooking in her grandmother’s dairy farm kitchen. Now living with her family in Chapel Hill, NC, Nancie writes, researches, and teaches about both her beats, while serving as a contributing editor for Edible Piedmont magazine. Nancie . . .

Taylor Dibbert’s (Guatemala) FIESTA OF SUNSET

Dec 18 2023

Taylor Dibbert (Guatemala 2006-08) is a writer, journalist, and poet in Washington, DC. He’s author of the Peace Corps memoir Fiesta of Sunset. Invictus, his debut poetry collection, is due out in January 2024, and he’s expected to have three other full-length collections published later that year. Taylor is a Program Director at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). Before joining the ICFJ team, he worked at the US Counsel on Sri Lanka, a DC-based advocacy organization. Prior to that, he worked for human rights NGOs in Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Taylor began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala. Over the years, his writing and journalism has appeared in a variety of outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Politics Review and HuffPost. Taylor holds degrees from Columbia University and the University of Georgia. Fiesta of Sunset: The Peace Corps, Guatemala and . . .

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