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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Today in the Dominican Republic we celebrate “Love and Friendship Day”, which I really like because it acknowledges the importance of friendship in our lives. It is less about diamonds than about telling various people that we love all the ways in which we do. So, thanks for following us and being our virtual friend.
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Giving is more than a duty, it’s a privilege. Last week the Ann and Ted Kheel Polytechnic in Verón honoured us by accepting our donation to its library. The polytechnic is the only high school in the small town of Verón. It was built by the PuntaCana Foundation and is supported by the foundation and
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Not long ago I came across a thread in one of our favorite forums* in which people discussed Dominican cooking. A friend of ours commented that most Dominican cooks used seasonings and calditos (bouillon/stock cubes) in their food. Is that really so? As a child from a family of diabetic, hypertensive, picky eaters this was
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Almost nine and half years ago, I decided that instead of writing down the Dominican recipes some of my friends requested over and over again I’d just put them online, then just send them to my site. I love cooking, but I hate typing (although I am pretty good at it, typing that is). All
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First of all, what sort of vegetarian are you? What the airlines describe as ‘lacto’? ‘Lacto-ovo’? These curious categories have long been obsolete everywhere except on the airline ticketing codes. They mean vegetarians who eat dairy products and vegetarians who eat dairy products and eggs. Are you a fishetarian? That means a vegetarian who eats
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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.
