This week’s Dark Days Eat Local Challenge meal comes courtesy of the buffet at Salsa Restaurant, Marriot Courtyard in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
I was wondering I was going to be able to find local food on this vacation. Google wasn’t much help in locating a farmers market within walking distance of my hotel. But there I was at this buffet, when Eniu (the Buffet Host, pictured below) shared some great news.
He let me know that the roasted pig was local.
And so was the pumpkin, onion, and other squash in this dish:
And of course, a Mojito, because Bacardi is local here and so is the mint!
Look closely and you can tell that the Mojito happened before the picture!
Buen Apetito!
on Jan 12th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Cheers!
on Jan 12th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Happy vacation! I’m sure you’re missing the 12 degree weather right about now…
on Jan 14th, 2010 at 10:10 am
UPDATE: It turns out that the rum isn’t entirely local here either. Although the distillery is here, the sugar comes from another island, likely Dominican Republic. PR is losing farmland as well. The population is losing interest in farming and land is worth more as something else.
on Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 pm
I shared the vacation with you it was one of my best of course I don’t eat pig but the fish was local.
on Jan 24th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
DEAR DEB
JUST A SHORT NOTE TO SAY HI. I DON’T GET ON TO WEB MUCH
BUT YOUR MOM SENT YOUR SITE. GOOD PICS. I COULD ACTUALL TASTE THAT PIG!
WE HAVE 33 DEG TODAY. IT STARTED OUT AT 19! I CAME HOME WITH A COUGH SO I’M NURSING MYSELF BACK TO HEALTH.
I MADE CHICKEN SOUP THIS WEEK (JEWISH PENICILLIN)
MAKING CHICKEN PARM TODAY & INVITED ADAM, OUR SON,
FOR DINNER. HAVE A GREAT DAY.
LUV MAX