I was reading some of your posts, and wanted to ask, if not too much problem, about places / things to do that you enjoyed while being in Cochabamba as part of your regular day to day.

I’ve been living my whole life in Cochabamba, and when friends from abroad come I not sure about what to show or places to go (I feel like Cochabamba does not have that much to offer compared to La Paz for example).

Much appreciated!

Tomi

Meanwhile, even I know that electricity from the wall provides more efficient and less expensive energy than beer. When I become a *real* grownup with my own kitchen, I intend to have the Kitchenaid mixer and a food processor. But I don’t have kids to feed. So.

Victory gardens, ahoy. At least you needn’t worry about building permits for them – yet. I’d quite like to have an apple orchard and cidery, but that would require people manage the thing.

Still. Apple cider on demand. Dream.

We have many food processors. We call them knives, potato mashers, box graters, wire whisks. . . . With just a little bit of regular practice, we can work quite quickly with them, and they’re very energy efficient. They run on beer. I don’t think twice about not having some fancy electric food processor, and I can’t imagine finding somewhere to store a useless electric scale. Mona uses a wooden spoon to mix cookie dough because she’s too much of a snob to use the electric beaters.

Heck, our oven is a 110th anniversary model from a company started in 1874, making it . . . (wait, higher math happening) . . . twenty-five years old. I wonder if she (article chick, not Mona) could work with that?!?

I kind of envy you your cooking situation. I want to build a wood-burning brick oven and grill in the back yard, but I’m not sure if local building/zoning regulations would allow it, and I would like to grow and can my own vegetables (sure, work at the end of the season, but just open a jar later), so your technological setbacks sound, to me, like challenges!

I agree with you that Frazzled Idiot-Cook must be just lousy at it. (I’ll follow the link in a few minutes.)

I also agree with Mona that you should post more often.