coffee and cinnamon

The plant I am touching is a "robust" coffee plant, different from the "Arabian" coffee plant, which is also planted here. The larger plant on the right is a cinnamon bush: its leaves smell like cinnamon, and if yua break off a leaf you can suck on the stem and taste it! To make cinnamon as we know it, the plant is dried, and rolls into those little brown sticks.

Unprocessed food stuffs: mysteries revealed!

July 13th 2006
Something that has been an ongoing preoccupation/interest to me is the FOOD here. Or, more precisely, the UNPROCESSED food-stuffs. I mean, we never get to see what our food looks like before it arrives pre-packaged on our grocery store shelves: pre-cooked beans, corn, and peas are to us available in tins, ready-to-eat; vanilla comes in liquid-form in a pretty little bottle, ready to be used in va ... read more

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The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the fir... ... read more

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