La ruta del jengibre – the ginger trail – is one of several ecological and agricultural community tourism initiatives dotted across the Dominican Republic. The idea is to create a tourist attraction based on a local economic activity – in this case the organic ginger crop in the outstanding setting of the Las Galeras/El Rincon
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A green kitchen can be any color. What we mean here by green is environmentally friendly. It’s almost twenty years since going green became mainstream, but much of this trend was hijacked by commercial concerns, and instead of reducing consumption, people were lured into buying additional products, because they were marketed …
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Haiti provides a preview of what’s in store for the Dominican Republic: the real price of free trade. Rice, beans, and chicken. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Haitians eat this every day – if they can afford it – and as far as I could tell the taste is identical to the “Dominican flag”. Plantains and
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Being that the consumption of organic food is a relatively new phenomenon, and the limited research that has been carried out on people who have eaten organics for a prolonged period of time, the debate over the nutritional value of organic versus conventional food is quite controversial and vast. Some reputable researchers claim that they
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Following up on another article about organics we decided to pose some questions to Dr. Andrea Brechelt who runs the Mercado Ecológico in Santo Domingo. See the previous article. The Mercado Ecologico is a health food shop that offers a complete selection of organic fruit and vegetables every week. Customers are given a list of
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Aunt Clara's Kitchen is a collection of traditional Dominican recipes, recipes inspired by Dominican flavors, as well as the chronicles of the Aunties' adventures in the kitchen and outside.
