Notes from Haiti: Restaveks
All around the world, cooks come in many shapes, ages, and dispositions. Many of these cooks are children, mostly girls, …
Tag Archives: Haiti
Idylls of Cuisine #31
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Counting Beans: A Soupçon of History
Not too long ago, I looked at the messy pile of one-pound bags of beans in my pantry and knew …
Open-Air Markets, Vanishing Communities?
“How much more French can I get?,” I asked myself as the vendor behind the melons glared at my right hand snaking toward a cantaloupe.
Poking the tomatoes, prodding the chile peppers, breaking off a hunk of fragrant golden ginger, and deliberately bruising cilantro leaves to get a whiff of that perfume, I moved through the Parisian open-air market on Rue de Rennes, the Eiffel Tower looming behind me. There, in front of me, dozens of golden cantaloupes sat, pyramided in a perfect triangle.
