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- Zahra Baking Bread
- Food and meals; Cooking
- As a small business development Volunteer, I helped develop the local weaving association. Zahra was one of my host sisters and one of the most dedicated weavers. I spent a lot of time with her in her house as she baked bread every morning before...
- Volunteer Photos
- Wood Fire Cooking
- Food and meals
- Although tanks of natural gas are available in this small pueblito in Queretaro, Mexico, families here still cook on open wood fires to a large extent. Trucks selling gas make themselves noisily known as they drive through town with music blaring...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women Making Improved Soy Porridge in Kambole, Togo
- Cooking; Nutrition
- Local women demonstrate making improved soy porridge to improve child nutrition in Kambole, Togo.
- Volunteer Photos
- With Ukrainian Host Mom
- Cooking
- Peace Corps Volunteers enjoying a delicious bowl of homemade borscht with local Babushka.
- Volunteer Photos
- We Roll Together
- Cooking; Host families; Food and meals
- This is a photo of my host mother (Aishe) and I. This was the first time we made byrek together. She was teaching me how to effectively roll thin layers of pastry dough for the byrek. The photo was taken March 20, 2010.
- Volunteer Photos
- We Heart Beans
- Elders; Food and meals; Cooking
- Bulgarians eat a lot beans. This picture was taken in late September after the pods of the beans had dried on the stalk. Ahmed is taking the pleasure of beating all of the dried beans out of their shells and after this labor intensive work they...
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteers Preparing Dinner
- Food and meals; Cooking
- Volunteers preparing fish dinner. Chogoria, Kenya, 1986.
- Volunteer Photos
- Two Little Girls Dancing Upon Receiving a Wood-burning Stove
- Celebrations; Children; Cooking
- I took this photo during my first stove demonstration on November 30, 2009 in the village of Cajola Chiquito, Guatemala. Many women in rural Guatemala still cook over open fires, and families suffer form chronic respiratory diseases year-round. The...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tortillas
- Traditional dress; Cooking
- Taken March, 2011 in Guatemala. My sister in-law and father in-law came to visit our village. One of the many cross-cultural activities we did was to share favorite cuisines. Here we are breaking all the rules... the men made tortillas and we...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tofu Making
- Food and meals; Cooking
- I took this photo of a fellow Volunteer, Julie, helping her counterpart, Suzi (shown), demonstrate a tofu making class to the women at an orphanage in my village of Baham, Cameroon. In the photo, Julie and Suzi are straining the soy milk before...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Hog That Fed a Village
- Food and meals; Cooking; Animals
- The village killed a giant hog, and I got to cook my own piece.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Entrepreneurial Spirit
- Markets; Cooking; Food and meals
- Roasted tofu squares are a popular snack.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Animals Must Eat
- Cooking; Animals; Food and meals
- Gosho poring dried corn into the grinder in order to feed his sheep, chickens, and pigs.
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey
- Cooking; Food and meals; Celebrations
- For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti in 1984, all of the volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Hinche: Rice and Pigeon Peas
- Celebrations; Food and meals; Cooking
- For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery Volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
- Volunteer Photos
- Thanksgiving in Hinche: Cleaning Rice
- Food and meals; Cooking; Celebrations
- For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
- Volunteer Photos
- T'schila Woman Cooking
- Elders; Pre-service training (PST); Cooking
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- Soy Enriched Porridge in Afele, Togo
- Cooking
- Volunteer Istvan serving soy-enriched porridge after a participatory cooking demonstration to mothers and fathers in Afele, Centrale Region, Togo 2005.
- Volunteer Photos
- South Africa Volunteer Andrew's Host Mother Rolling Mealies
- Host families; Cooking
- This is my host mother from the village of Phoshiri in northern South Africa (Limpopo Province). The village just received electricity in late 2007 but many of the traditional means of life have not changed (I.e., cooking over a fire). My host...
- Volunteer Photos
- South Africa Volunteer Andrew with Host Mother Learning Traditional Cooking
- Host families; Pre-service Training (PST); Cooking
- The photo was taken in 2008 during my pre-service training. This was my training host mother and she was training me to make traditional "pap" or "bogobe" which is eaten throughout rural South Africa. It was a real treat for her to show me how to...
- Volunteer Photos