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hi, i'm ash!
Creator of the New Travel & Design Series, 'OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES.'
Travel writer & host, cultural explorer, and architecture & interiors freak.
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The Newsletter
Every week, we're exploring global culture through the lens of the home. From floorplans to fixtures, we examine how houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world (with a side of sass, of course!)
The Podcast
The only podcast where we pass on the pyramids and poke around in the plumbing. Iโm Ash, and I'm, exploring the strange, smart, and wonderful ways houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world.
The Books
A new series of OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES books designed to help you try on a new life in different places around the worldโby getting to "go behind closed doors" inside local homes to discover what it's really like to live there.
God youโre good. I love reading something shitty and then later seeing your work pop up in my inbox. Itโs like a reminder of people who donโt suck shit. Love your posts !!!
I accidentally married a man (who now co-parents my gorgeous kids w me) who suggested adding raisins to EVERY DISH I cooked. “This would be good with raisins!” or “This could be delicious if you added raisins next time!” Like, why would you add raisins to everything? I only use raisins to weird out my kids and make Ants on a Log as a snack…but they pick off the ants anyway.
Omg, this reminds me of the SNL skit Chadwick Boseman was in about potato salad with raisins in it!!! ๐๐๐๐ I wish I had the link to share. ๐๐
Let’s be real – we’re comparing raisins to ANTS here. Why wouldn’t an intelligent child pick bugs off their food prior to eating it?
I also married (then smartly divorced) a man (who now also co-parents my gorgeous kids with me ๐ ) who cooked for me only once in 16 years…mainly because he proudly served me Bobotie…minced meat with raisins, jam and custard…probably shouldn’t have ignored that red flag ๐
That sounds like something my ex would LOVE to eat! Was he British, like mine??
A friend convinced me once that I would like beets if I had them candied. Logically that made sense so I agreed to try her candied beets. BIG MISTAKE, they just tasted like sweet dirt!!!! ๐คข
Iโm convinced the only good salad is one with bacon in it, or one that has a hot bacon vinaigrette. Wedge salads with bacon are the best salads, not too many ingredients and not a lot of chopping. ๐คค
…. I died at “they just tasted like sweet dirt!!!”….
So gross!!! ๐คฎ
I’m thrilled to find a person who thinks beets are as gross as I do. I think they taste like dirt. BUT, living in Bali, we have a strong Australian influence on food, and dammit if they don’t put beets (“beet root”) in all sorts of places they clearly don’t belong. Burgers especially. Okay, now it’s a dirt burger – are you happy?
If you would like to know more about the sweet tooth, I’m it. I AM a giant sweet tooth. I’ll eat just gelato for dinner any day of the week. French toast for breakfast? Don’t mind if I do.
well, i will disappoint and disgust you all๐, i LOVE beets !!! in fact i love all veggies, fruits, especially dried fruit, bring on those raisins, and those promegranate’s? Yes please! I am banana mad, eat at least 5-8 a day and adore sticky dates …why? just because I’m one of those wierd plant based vegans ๐คช
I love beets as well. I especially love any juice that has beets in it.
Finally someone else who hates truffle anything. It’s so gross. It’s obnoxious how many restaurants have truffle fries on their menu.
But here’s the line that gutted me … It makes me wonder: what other things do we do to remain comfortable, and safe, and loved, and secure?
The job?
The house?
The partner?
The routine?
Because more and more I find myself moving away from comfort and it’s scary as hell. That type of discomfort that makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. But as I like to remind myself… Faith Requires Risk. Which also sometimes makes me want to vomit.
Not a truffle fan and totally amazed by the number of people in Alaska who go hunting for mushrooms to eat here and 99% of them look like something out of Hanzel and Gretel that the witch would feed you. My mother was as skinny as a beanpole, ate nothing but sweets. I prefer cheese, wine, potatoes of any style (fried, mashed, baked) and pizza. Occasionally I will want a great piece of german chocolate preferably with brandy in it. But try to take away my cheese and wine and we’ll have words lol. I do put strawberries in my salad but I make my own dressing and I love strawberries, but beyond that no mushrooms, no other fruit thanks. (oh and I am not skinny beanpole, wish some days I was but alas I like cheese way to much)