As a change of pace, I thought I'd provide an illustration of how we ate while in Haiti. We ate considerably well while visiting the island. Better, in fact, than a typical Haitian eats and healthier than I tend to eat back in the States!

So the following is a photo-essay, mostly thanks to Faith's quick-thinking and use of the digital camera, of food we ate on our visit. Bon appetit!



Stripped from coke.com? Not quite. 1/2 litre bottles of Coke, Sprite, & Fanta were a luxury in Haiti, but since we were rich and spoiled, we typically had 2 each day. Faith took this shot after our 3,000 ft hike up a mountain to view the Citadel.


Most of our vegetables came fresh from the farm's gardens--free of pesticides and genetic engineering!


A typical lunch. Breakfast usually consisted of spaghetti or eggs with fish or sausage and TONS of seasoning. Lunch was always the largest meal of the day. Here, you see a fried plantain (yummy), fish (which you're supposed to eat in its entirety--meat, eyeballs, bones, and all), and rice with a broth over it. A very good meal. And for dinner...

...Voila! This was dinner. Every night. It was a mixture of flour, water, sugar, maybe a little milk, and sometimes possibly manioc. It was famously called cake batter by the Americans. Or gruel. It resembled a tapioca type of pudding.


Lunch towards the end of the week. They slaughtered a goat for us at the farm, and I was able to get about a half-dozen good shots. (If you really want to see them, let me know.) This particular goat ended up feeding us for about 3 meals. They use virtually every part of the animal for something. Something I thought interesting is that every chair you come across in that part of Haiti has goat hide as the bottom of it (the part you sit on), because wood is so expensive and hard to find.

Over 60% of the world's meat consumption is goat, yet we as Americans can go an entire lifetime without ever eating one, being perfectly content in purchasing shrink-wrapped or frozen beef and chicken at the grocery store. Just another way at how Americans still practice isolationism. As the world depends on goat for dairy, meat, hides, and more, we insist on the costlier and more wasteful stock.



Our first 2 meals upon arrival back into Florida consisted of deluxe cheeseburgers with fries, pizza, and Dr. Pepper. Needless to say, this photo was one of the few moments when I was not on the toilet!