In a project directed at increasing revenues by fully processing the local, high-altitude coffee, Tomas and Higinio toast coffee inside an old building built by the government and mining companies. The Ngäbes have recently protested the...
My site mate, Nick, hiked 2 hours up to my mountain abode for lunch on a rare sunny day. I show this photo to my students to illustrate the kitchens and the life style of many Filipinos. Note the coconut oil can wood stove and obligatory thermos so...
My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, where I was posted, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make s’mores and the...
I took this photo during training in April of 2008 while visiting the T'schila tribe in El Poste, Ecuador. The photo shows an elderly woman of the tribe traditionally cooking food in a hut.
This picture was taken outside of my village, Meri, in the extreme north region of Cameroon. My friend Abel and I went to visit his sister who lived en brosse (in the bush) in a very small community. I helped his sister piler, pound, millet and...
This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in September 2010. The woman on the left is Hassana Garba who taught me how to pound and winnow my own millet. The other woman is Zina Hashimu, Hassana's...
This was our kitchen in the rooms we rented in 1978-79 in Bonuan Blue Beach, near Dagupan in the Philippines. We took this picture before we added a burner top oven - what a step up that was! Still, we were ever so grateful that our rent included...