Many may think all countries in Latin America are alike. At first glance, Dominican Republic (DR) and Mexico may appear to be the same, but as my husband Nate and I adapt from the DR to our new home and culture in Torreon, Mexico, we discover more and more differences between the two countries every [...]

Oh, do we have restaurants in HK.  Every kind.  Every cuisine.  From every part of the world.  The local cuisine, of course, is Cantonese.  Eating out is a consequence of (a) the small apartments and (b) multiple wage earners in almost every family.  A typical HK block has twenty restaurants and the remarkable thing is [...]

Many Russians have “dachas,” little houses on a small plot of land outside the city.  Here they grow vegetables, potatoes, fruit trees, berries—all kinds of foods to eat fresh in the summer and to can for the winter.
But the dacha is not only a place for gardening!  It’s a great place to get away from [...]

The May-June rice harvest is in and the numbers look good for the Dominican Republic. This crop was abundant and will help keep the country self-sufficient in rice production. To meet the country’s demand of an average of 335,000 tons of rice per year, two harvests are brought in each year, one in May and [...]

Missionary Mike Hartman recently took a trip to Puebla. While visiting with the congregation there, he was offered a special drink – beet juice!
Shortly after he returned from the visit, he was in downtown Torreón with a seminary student. He saw a stand selling “jugo de caña,” which his student explained was sugar cane juice. [...]