Horses, camels, cows/yaks, goats and sheep
By Rachel I am sure many of you are well into summer by now, and thoughts of spring and its foods are long gone. But we are still deep in the spring foods, which at the market means several varieties of onions including wild leeks. These add a little spark to our now routine spinach […]
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[The following is a guest entry from Donna “The Mulligan” Damico, aka Charlie’s mother. The views expressed in this entry do not necessary reflect the views of The Snouts, though The Snouts are delighted and honored to have such a high profile and talented contributor in their midst.] By The Mulligan Last fall when I […]
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By Charlie So here’s where we have been for the past few days: That’s Lake Hovsgol in north-central Mongolia. It is stunningly beautiful. But this is Mongolia and screwed up shit happens in Mongolia. For example, someone drove their Russian truck into the lake. No biggie. They just got another truck and pulled it out. […]
Continue ReadingBy Charlie We received this e-mail the other day from someone who visited The Snouts: — From: "rose" <rawalsh@epix.net> Date: June 14, 2006 11:34:33 PM EDT To: <rachel.henighan@verizon.net> Subject: Amazing Race Hi Rachel, I read Charlie & your Amazing Race sighting . Your somewhat of celebrities around the USA message boards ! Anyway I’m writing […]
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By Rachel All year long I have wanted to buy a painting. I have seen many fabulous ones, from the Khan Bank collection to exhibits at various galleries in town. It is all pretty intimidating, though, and my Mongolian is not good enough to negotiate with artists directly. A few weeks I went along on […]
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By Charlie And this is why I came to Mongolia: That’s Naraa, general manager of the Gobi Wave radio station in the South Gobi. Naraa posed on Thursday afternoon with a brand new FM transmitting antenna under a brilliant blue sky. It’s 5:45 AM on Sunday morning as I write. We returned from the Gobi […]
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By Charlie To see some great pictures from our recent trip to Darkhan and Selenge, please visit Michael Cullen’s website. CLICK HERE to see all the snaps. Thanks to Michael Cullen for visiting Mongolia on his vacation and for rendering so much help to the stations.
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By Charlie Ariunaa and Luke got married today. They picked me up at about 11:30 this morning. We took a taxi to the place where marriages are registered. I was to be the witness. Luke and I went in the front, while Ariunaa went around back to pay the registration fee at the bank. How […]
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By Charlie The Snouts have hit the big time. You can now read Snouts material on Mixed Signals, the NPR News blog. A few weeks ago, I wrote an entry about NPR Engineer Michael Cullen. We met him in Beijing and then spent a week together in Mongolia. This week, I wrote about NPR General […]
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By Rachel Last night, I imagine we were the only people in all of Mongolia eating risotto. In February our friend Jenn, an excellent cook and nutritionist, sent us two boxes full of healthy food. One box arrived in early March, and we feasted on blue corn pancakes. The other box finally arrived in mid-May, […]
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