“Hinojo de Anis” or CaisimónBy now the evening of quiet party preparations was progressing with interruptions from arriving visitors, who were mostly family members. Our family remained the only outsiders in a family that extended into the next generation of grandchildren. Continue reading
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Tagged codfish-bakes, goats-milk, hinojo, piper-auritum
Ripe Papaya
Maracuya or Passion fruit
Caimito
As the day progressed, our hostess, Miss Luisa, became more and more secure with educated young guests, which prompted her to tell us the story of her life. The more talkative she became the more this writer was taken back into a period of history which had never been written, and which led me to discover that my ancestors, the West Indian Blacks, had walked the same path daily as the unemployed workers long ago in a City of Panama that was still annexed to the country of Colombia. Continue reading
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Tagged Madame, maracuyá, patacones, Patio Patterson, Rio-Abajo
