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Digging a Well

Thirsty? Start digging!
Cooking with Vesinos

As a fresh-out-of-college volunteer, I wasn’t much of a chef. Fortunately, I had neighbors who were. They would periodically come over and give me lessons. They taught me how to prepare guinea pigs, quinoa, locro soup, seco de pollo, lomo salteado and other popular Andean dishes. As you can tell from this picture taken in my kitchen, I was extremely grateful!
Kids & Cuyes

Cuyes or guinea pigs make for great pets. In Ecuador though, they're also considered a delicacy. Buen provecho!
Dinner time!

This is a picture of what a traditional Moldovan table looks like for a party. This particular photo is of the welcoming lunch for the PCV's in our training town.
Making Lomos

Our local community Children's Nutrition and Education Center of Barbacoas de Puriscal made "lomos" one of Costa Rica's many delicious typical foods.
Holy Week!

During holy week, it's a tradition in rural Costa Rica to make corn-based products (pastries) that would accompany a usual coffee break during the day. This one is one of my favorite pictures and they are called rosquillas; perfectly shaped minidonut-looking things made with lots of cheese.
From skim to whole

Each night my host mother milks Meatsa the goat. We use the milk for drinking, cooking, and making cheese. Here you see my host mom teaching me to milk the goat for the very first time.
Beergin Coke

“Beergin Coke” It was, I don’t remember how many, but not many days after I arrived in country, that my co-newbie & I were invited to go out for drink by a local. Tom, (10 years my younger but partner in mischief) and I had been known to have a drink. We were in training at a mold-loving hot springs spa in a college town about an hour south of Manila. We were to be housed, in pairs, for a week, with local families. I also don’t remember the Baranguy Captain’s name, to my great re...
Sorsogon Pizza

Sorsogon Pizza I served as a Peace Corps Agricultural Advisor, assigned to Baranguay Salbacion, Magallanes, Sorsogon, Philippines, from 1979 to 1981. A major part of my work was to build & manage a nursery for the propagation of coffee, cacao, and black pepper, as one of several outposts of a USAID-funded project, the Sorsogon Crop Diversification Program. SCDP had been designed and proposed to USAID by an earlier Peace Corps Volunteer, Paul Driscoll, who had also recruited a recen...
Mopane worms

Mopane worms are eaten throughout Botswana. They are named for the pane tree, whose leaves they eat. While those pictured are live; after they have been prepared, they tend to be a deep green. They are first dried, then deep-fried in oil, then cooled. They are sold by the baggieful and munched on by young and old, wealthy and less so.

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