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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates
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Rosalind Cummings-Yeates is a journalist and author who specializes in travel and culture. Also a Blues baby and houseplant hoarder.
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Travel to Martinque isn’t that hard. Norwegian Air used to have super cheap flights from JFK but now that they’re gone, American has lots of flights from Miami and Copa isn’t a bad airline to try. Because it’s an overseas department of France, Europeans are the major visitors but it’s definitely accessible to… Read more
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Yes! Almodóvar is one of my favorite directors and that spiked gazpacho is iconic, lol.
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Exactly. Freshness is key.
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I’m glad, Curacao is so much more than the liqueur.
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Yes, in Westpunt you’ll find the iguana soup mostly. Keshi Yena is considered the “fancy” national dish and I’ve only seen it served in Willemstad. You will definitely have to go back and try it!
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That would have been a whole other article, lol. It’s actually a corruption of “Bania “loosely translated to merchants, which is what a lot of the Indian migrants were. And chow simply means food.
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Hmm, I’ve actually never tried it.
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Oh I’m so glad! South African food isn’t that common here but some big cities like NY do have restaurants.
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I don’t eat sausages but I definitely saw them on all the menus.
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It can be made from local fruits as well. I had some made from tamarind but coffee was popular in the region I visited.
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Nope, it’s definitely moonshine. A lot stronger than average rum.
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Yes yams aren’t common in regular super markets but you can get them at ethnic markets. If you can’t find actual yams, which are different from sweet potatoes, substitute white potatoes.
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I use this one minus the red meat: https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/sancocho-trifasico-three-meats-sancocho/
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Yes, that’s why I discussed how the Colombian version differed from Panama’s. It really does vary but I never tasted one that I didn’t like, lol.
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It’s such a comforting soup, I hope you get a chance to try it!
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Nope. The point was to explore my experience with the soup and how it connected to the places I tried it. I don’t have a personal recipe but there are lots available on food sites.
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Sancocho recipes vary across Latin America, I don’t have one from Colombia but there are lots of recipes you can use on food sites.
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I have a pair of socks like that, lol!
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