Globelle Affairs
Globelle Affairs is your online destination for food, global affairs discussions, and literature designed to help you navigate the world.
Meet the Global Belle
Hi there! I’m Charneice, the writer, photographer, chef, and recipe developer behind GloBelle Affairs! I’m excited to welcome you to GloBelle Affairs! Here, stories, book recommendations, and delicious recipes mingle so you’ll always be dinner table talk ready.
Keep reading if you want to learn more about me and how I got my start in international affairs and food blogging! If you are curious about how we can work together, click here!
The GloBelle Story
I launched Globelle Affairs in 2011 as a BlogSpot travel diary called “Southern Belle in Stuttgart.” My goal was to keep my parents informed of my adventures while stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. They weren’t social media savvy at the time and I wouldn’t be able to call as frequently. Living three hours from Paris, four hours from Prague, and two hours from the Swiss border, the wanderlust virus afflicted me hard. I have never recovered.
After a 2-year Air Force assignment exploring and eating across Europe, followed by a year deployment in an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, and earning a Master’s degree in Global Affairs, I returned to The States. I started on my quest to visit all 50 states with a cross-country road trip. On the first stop of the trip, I was sitting at the kitchen island of my deployment bestie’s Maine Farmhouse. Explaining that I was no longer a “Southern Belle in Stuttgart,” and my reach has gone global, Carrie laughed and said, “GloBelle!”
Thus, a new vision was born.
In the Kitchen
Moving around every 1-4 years with the military introduced new foods to my culinary repertoire. I realized that each recipe tells the history of a family. I wanted to document my family’s culinary history.
International Affairs
Even after living abroad and graduating, I still recognized voids in my understanding of the world. I still had so much more I wanted to know.
So I went back to school to fill it— this time with a focus on National Security Policy at Stanford University. After a breakdown catalyzed by a blue screen of death (which seriously only seems to happen during midterms or finals), I started thinking about my What and Why? Perhaps I could fill this scholarly void by putting tuition money toward travel. Don’t get me wrong, I’m doing both, but learning via jet setting was really what I wanted to do. I know there are more folks out there like me.
My approach to dissecting the world’s most pressing problems will always lean on history and culture. I recognize when that’s combined with the approaches and other disciplines, bigger breakthroughs happen. To facilitate those breakthroughs, I want to share my discoveries and connections with you and learn from your experiences.
“You write in order to change the world … if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” — James Baldwin
Since leaving my “ol’ Kentucky home” I’ve:
- Visited all 50 States (Proudest accomplishment)
- Country Count: 35
- Mountain Ranges (in chronological order of visited): Appalachian, Himalayas, Alps, Rockies, Andes)
- Lived in 3 Countries (China, Germany, Qatar)
- Lived in: Montgomery, Alabama, Southern California, Boston, Texas, and North Carolina
- Earned a BA in History with a focus on Non-Western History + Public Affairs at the University of Kentucky & studied abroad at Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, China.
- Earned an MA+ in International Affairs
- Worked with NATO & Partners for Peace
- Deployed twice.
Even after stretching my southern comfort zone to the limits, I’m still a small-town Kentucky girl who just enjoys learning more about the world — a Global Belle if you will, with a dog named Memphis.