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Who's behind all this?
I bet that you couldn't resist and had to find out who's behind all this. Here we tell you that and other things you didn't want to know.
DominicanCooking.com, and twin site CocinaDominicana.com, are non-commercial, collaborative efforts from a group of friends who share the love for the culinary in general, and Dominican Food in particular. We believe that our cuisine is rich, and that it deserves to be promoted for it is healthy, delicious and the true reflection of our culture.
These sites were started in 2002 by Clara with the support of the other members of our team. This is the fourth major redesign of our site during those years. Today thousands of visitors, registered members and subscribers stop by every day.
In 2005 our site was nominated to the Arroba de Oro Award to the best Dominican website in the category of Art and Culture. The following year, our sister site CocinaDominicana.com won this award.
As of September 2007 we became sponsors of Plan, a development agency that works in the Dominican Republic to educate mothers in depressed areas about proper nutrition. You can read more about it here, and also how you too can become a Plan sponsor.
Thanks to all the people that have supported us throughout these years.
| Meet the Team |
Amateur cook and full-time Internet junkie, Aunt Clara is not really anyone's
aunt, but she needed a catchy name for a website about cooking. She is Dominican and lives in the Independent Republic of PuntaCana, where she now (after a run through the corporate mill) spends her days as the semi-devoted wife to her golf-obsessed husband, and being Nadia's doting mom®.
The sole survivor of an air crash in the Brazilian rainforest, Aunt Ilana was raised by the isolated 'Chirimoya' tribe. Luckily she had a small satchel with a transistor radio (conveniently tuned to the BBC World Service) a jar of Marmite and a Jane Austen anthology. These shaped her into the well-rounded individual she is today. Weary of a diet of anaconda jelly and sloth steaks, she embarked on a gastropological expedition. She ended up in … England, a move that led some to describe her privately as a 'glutton for punishment'. Now married with one child, she has settled into life in PuntaCana as a bored but relieved housewife.
It is a certainty that these sites would not exist without a tremendous support from Uncle Rob, somebody that, although not officially a member of our team, has put as many hours and effort into our project as anyone of us. He is a partner and webmaster at DR1.
Credits:
Design, content, and pictures by Aunt Clara.*
Articles by Aunt Clara Aunt Ilana and guest authors.
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