About: Matt Gross

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Matt Gross writes the "Getting Lost" series for the New York Times travel section, is a contributing writer at Afar magazine, and appears regularly in Saveur. When he’s not on the road, he’s with his wife, Jean, and daughter, Sasha, in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

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How to Raise a Bilingual Child

We rarely give actual advice on this blog, and for good reason: We generally don’t know what we’re talking about. This post will not be much different, except that it’s loaded with hubris. In short, I’ve spent the past two weeks with my 3-year-old daughter here in Taipei, and I’m seriously impressed with her ability [...]


Sasha vs. Jesus: Taiwan Edition

When I married my Taiwanese wife, Jean, I was a bit of an outsider, not just because I’m a round-eyed American devil but because I’m Jewish, too. At first, this provoked conflicting responses from her family: As an American, I must be profligate, lazy, spendthrift, but as a Jew, I must also be clever, well-educated, [...]


Taipei: City of Cousinly Love

Sasha slept through the night last night. Now, normally, this would not be a big deal, but the thing is, we’ve been here in Taipei most of the last week, and jetlag… Well, jetlag is bad enough when you know what it is and can try to adjust. But when you’re a 3-year-old and have [...]

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Introducing: The Most Disgusting Baby Accessory of the Day

Here at DadWagon, we get a lot of press releases. Most of them get instantly deleted. Others get deleted after a minute’s consideration. Still others are simply overlooked and fester unread in our inbox. But every once in a while, one of them gets through. Yesterday, a message came in from the makers of NoseFrida—you [...]


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