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Ecuador Food: Bahia Restaurants and Special Dishes
Bahia de Caraquez is bursting at the seams with good restaurants and teeming with fresh seafood of every description. Ceviche, langostino, river fish, crab, calamari. Take your pick. You’ll also...
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Cafe Rio Intag Re-Opens in Cotacachi
Eddie’s back and busy brewing up his special blends of Intag coffee! This is very good news to all the coffee drinkers in Cotacachi. At least those who crave REAL coffee, hand-roasted, freshly ground...
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Kurikindi: Cotacachi Organic Farm
Kurikindi Farm is a multi-cultural experiment in more ways than one. No monotonous rows of monocultured crops here. You’ll find a rainbow of colors and varieties on their farm and even the veggies are...
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Living in Ecuador: Morochos Part I–Self-Sustainability
Gary and I and two new friends, Holly and Gregory, ventured all the way out to Morochos, a village of less than 1000 people that lies about 8 kilometers from Cotacachi at an altitude of 9240 feet. The...
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Several readers asked me to share my recipe for Blueberry Quinoa Pancakes after I mentioned them in a recent post. So here it is. This is an old fashioned pancake recipe, adapted to Ecuadorian...
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An Environmentalist’s Message to Grandmothers about GMOs
I have to say that all this talk about a possible GMO invasion of Ecuador with President Correa’s blessing makes me very nervous. Instead of just making sure my food is organic instead of...
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Plant, Pray, Eat: The Three Sisters
The three sisters had been waiting patiently for the weather to warm up. In Iroquois tradition, they are known as De-o-ha-ko, Our Sustainers. Now that it’s May in California it’s time for these...
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Saturday in Sangolqui for Ecuador Food
The lookout over Valle de Los Chillos at San Pedro del Tingo Sangolqui is a town famous for its daily open market (mercado abierto) and food. People from Quito make their way every weekend for...
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Mompiche: One of the Last Ecuador Beach Paradises
Palms on Mompiche Beach, Ecuador A love of food, the beach and a birthday brought us to Mompiche… One of the last idyllic and untouched beaches in Ecuador, Mompiche was a wonderful surprise birthday...
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Naranjilla, a Strange Exotic, Somewhat Dangerous Fruit
Naranjilla, means “little orange,” in Ecuador. It’s a flowering, fruiting shrub–both beautiful and eerily other-worldly because of its unusual appearance. The white, 5-petaled flowers are smooth and...
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