This is a photo of the lunch my host mother prepared for me in Moldova. I was the only one eating. Moldovans love to share food and homemade wine and they expect you to eat EVERYTHING. The food is delicious and my waistline is expanding. Many great...
This photo is of the Akee Fruit eaten on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica. Careful, its poisonous until it opens! It is usually prepared with fish and vegetables, and tastes delicious!
Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
Daily life during my Peace Corps service included shopping at the weekly outdoor market. I came to know many of the vendors, and often had lunch at the fish-fry tent. When it got busy at the tent, I would help the vendor's sons fry the fish! This...
In the Dominican Republic, the lunch time standard is rice and beans, possibly some meat. Tostones are fried plantains (shown on the back of the plate).
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...
"Inviting the world to the table" was nearly impossible for me to pick just one picture of the glorious food from my time as a PCV in Fiji! LIfe revolved around food! My best memories involve planting, catching, cooking, and eating with my friends...
This Volunteer is a math and science teacher in a secondary school. Here she eats her morning meal of dolbhoth (rice with lentil sauce), joined by the youngest member of the family with whom she lives.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is serving in Leboudon, Mauritania working with village and school gardening, nutrition education, and building fuel efficient stoves.