Like each year for the last 4 years I spent a March afternoon photographing the PuntaCana carnival and marveling at the ingenuity and creativity of its participants. Beautiful women, fierce masks, dames of questionable gender, people of all ages, colors and several nationalities meet for this impressive parade. While I was making pictures (thanks to the
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A few months back I shared with you our adventures crossing our country from corner to corner: North by Northwest – From PuntaCana to Montecristi. This week we arrived after undertaking the same trip again. So, what’s with us and the trips to Montecristi? Well, I was born in Montecristi. It’s where our family tree
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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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I couldn’t pass on this opportunity to use the title of my favorite Hitchcock movie. This is a road trip that not many Dominicans have made, and for me one that -metaphorically speaking – started in reverse 40 years ago. A two-way 1000 km-journey between the two farthest points in the country. Driving through the
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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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We have said on more than one occasion that Dominican food has more in common with its Spanish-speaking Caribbean neighbours than with other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. I thought I’d look into this in a little more detail. It makes sense that we should share a common culinary tradition with Cuba and
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Our series on Caribbean cooking continues with a first visit to the South American mainland. Venezuela has a long Caribbean coastline and shares many aspects of its history, culture and gastronomy with the Caribbean islands, so its cuisine can be said to form a part of the Caribbean culinary heritage. Arepas, as …
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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.
