The coco palm has become almost synonymous with paradise. Along with a deserted white beach, its image stands out on countless postcards and holiday brochures. I don’t know about you, but every time I catch sight of one I know I am where I want to be. The Coconut originated in the islands of the
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
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 as eco-friendly . Some of
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
I have mentioned before how one of my favorite things about living here is that this is a recycling community. It might not be earth-shattering news for folks where this is the norm, it isn’t in this country. Separating our garbage here is pretty simple. We are only required to separate it into organics (food
Let me invite you to my daughter’s 4th birthday party. For this you will need a time machine, because that was last year. We have a few ideas of our own about environmentalism, how we raise our daughter and a host of other topics. This is not the time to share them, but the way we
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
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
Aunt Clara's Kitchen is a collection of traditional Dominican and Dominican-inspired recipes, home ideas, crafts, and the chronicles of Aunt Clara and Aunt Ilana's adventures.
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