Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is a landlocked country situated along the eastern side of South Africa, bordering Mozambique. It extends approximately 110 miles (175 km) from north to south and 80 miles (130 km) from west to east, making it just a touch larger than Connecticut, with a population of around 1.2 million people,… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #58 – Eswatini
We’re off to the Baltic Sea and States this time around in The Bread & Soup Project. Okay, everyone raise their hands who can tell me anything about Estonia. Thought so. Okay, let’s start with the basics – small country, 17,504 square miles (45,335 square kilometers), putting it about midway between the size of West… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #57 – Estonia
We’re still in Africa, but have moved cross-continent to the northeast, and the country of Eritrea. There was no such country when I was growing up. Eritrea was a confederated region of Ethiopia that was undergoing a movement for independence, but that didn’t come to fruition until 1991. Located on the Red Sea, it’s a small… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #56 – Eritrea
It’s been awhile on this project, and it’s become clear it will happen as it happens. Probably, as in past years, in spurts. Today, we’re on to Equatorial Guinea, a western African country of 1.5 million people that is notable as being the only Spanish speaking country in Africa, having formerly been a Spanish colony, Spanish… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #55 – Equatorial Guinea
It’s been awhile for this project, no? Our last entry, Egypt, was back in December 2021! Like all my projects, this one hovers in my mind, and it stalled out when I couldn’t find one of the key ingredients for many dishes in El Salvadoran cuisine, the papa del aire, or chayote. It was just an… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #54 – El Salvador
The Pyramids. The Sphinx. The Sahara Desert. The Nile River. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Egypt is a country we all have a vague familiarity with from iconic images and film, but most of us probably have little to no personal experience with either the country or its cuisine. Welcome to our next entry in… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #53 – Egypt
Finally, on to a country and culture with which I have at least a vague familiarity. Not a lot, but at least more than some of the far flung places I’ve ventured to in the kitchen here. It’s been just over six years since our one trip to Quito, which is my only on the… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #52 – Ecuador
Let’s start this time off with a repeat of the map I used in the last post, on Dominica, just a reminder that they’re not the same place…. The Dominican Republic is the second largest nation in the Caribbean, after Cuba. It shares an island with Haiti. The native Taino people settled it in the 7th… Read More The Bread & Soup Project #51 – Dominican Republic