Lima, Peru 1 — Food, Death and Art

We went to Lima primarily to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. We spent an extra week to explore Lima, since our last visit here was in 1999, or 23 years ago. Since then, Lima has been transformed and is now known as the culinary capital of South America. We started by taking TripAdvisor’s top rated […]

ShakaCon Backstage

We were asked to photograph another charity photo event last Wednesday night at the Polynesian Cultural Center. There were five different categories we were asked to document. This was the second event we helped on the Shaka Project, which is making a documentary on the origin and history of the shaka, a Hawaiian gesture of […]

Indonesia 25 – Toraja 4 – Pig Heaven

Toraja society is organized along a strict caste system. The person’s caste, or class, is inherited through the mother, and it is strictly forbidden for a woman to marry a man of lower class. The noble, or upper class, is considered to be descended from a person who descended from heaven. When someone of the […]

Living in Ecuador as an Expat (video)

We have begun to get settled into Honolulu, and establishing our routines here. One of my personal routines is membership into the Eyes of Hawaii camera club here. At the request of members, I have created a couple of narrated slide shows. The most recent slide show, that will be shown in August, when we […]

Cuenca – Thanksgiving 2021

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our family and friends. We’re thankful we were able to get together with others this year. We had several Thanksgiving invitations, and had to choose. In the end, we decided to go to two dinners, based on timing. Yes, we were stuffed on Thanksgiving and wished we had “stretchy pants”! […]

[Recipe] Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard boiled eggs have been one of those things that seem so easy to make, yet are so hard to get “looking good.”  The yolk is often smushed to one side, and the outside white frequently looks like it was the survivor of a chain saw massacre.  Yet there is hope! [Recipe] Hard Boiled Eggs […]

Burt’s 3 Years of Cooking

Mushrooms Stuffed With Cheese Are  a Guest Favorite Appetizer When I wrote our 3-year anniversary blog yesterday, I forgot to add a section on food and the joy of cooking, which has been a major theme in our lives since we arrived in Cuenca. Mercados. From the start, I have shopped for fresh fruits and […]

Carolina Smokehouse Meets La Yunta

We have mentioned the free cooking classes at La Yunta before.  $3 for a round-trip bus ride (or free if you drive yourself), and get a free cooking demonstration, along with some scrumptious bits of meal that fill you up enough that you don’t need lunch. Yesterday we opted to join them again on their […]

Ecuadorean Cooking School

We spent a full day last week at a cooking school here in Cuenca.  Unfortunately, I got rather sick shortly afterwards (sore throat, etc — not related to the school) and my brain went offline for most of the past week.  I am only now getting around to writing about the experience. The class was […]

Cooking With Fire

We have heard about La Yunta since shortly before we went on our Turkey adventure last March. This is a restaurant / tienda / deli that is about a 15 minute drive out of Cuenca, enroute to Loja. Being so far out in the sticks, they have to be creative to get people to come.  […]

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