Marine Corps Ball

Each year on November 10, the United States Marine Corps celebrates its birthday. Since 1949, Marines have been providing protective support to U.S. diplomatic missions around the world. And each November, these diplomatic missions look forward to the Marine Corps Ball - with its speeches, pomp and circumstance, drinking, cake cutting, eating, drinking, dancing with your colleagues and boss, seeing who brings the most outrageous date...and more drinking! Below are a couple photos from our first Marine Corps Ball.

Time to Make the Bread

Those of you in the United States may be surprised to find out that Jeremy has become quite a baker in Nairobi. I believe this newfound baking interest stems from two circumstances: 1) most of the bread available in Nairobi sucks (except for the French bakery and Art Cafe), which is especially sad after the great bread in Portland from places like New Seasons and Great Harvest; 2) he spent his first six months here without a job and with lots of time to be creative in the kitchen.

Many of his breads have been standard French or Italian loaves. He's also dressed them up with parmesan or garlic. To please his "healthy" wife, he even made whole wheat! Jeremy has also branched out to other bread products including pizza dough, Stromboli, and cinnamon rolls. He made cinnamon rolls for a potluck brunch a few months back, and the other guests keep begging him to make more...one person even wanted to hire him to make a batch for a birthday breakfast! Of all his creations his favorite is a beer bread boule (see below photo).