Eliza Priest, circulation assistant, is from
Curaçao and did
a fantastic job of giving us an insight into her world. The theme was Christmas
in
Curaçao and she made a brightly colored chicken and potato salad with
mashed beets. Talk about pink salad.
Curaçao is primarily a tourist economy
with some agriculture. Cruise ships are a regular event in this island country
off of Venezuela. It is primarily Roman Catholic because of the Spanish roots,
but it is a Dutch island. Eliza made a spicy rice dish with tomato gravy sauce.
She made little pastries of ground beef in a dough to be fried and a peanut
butter cookie shaped like an “S” for Santa. The freshly fried plantains were a
crowd favorite. There were smiles on everyone’s faces by the end of the hour.
One of us even looked up the meaning of the yellow stripe on the
Curaçao flag. It
stands for the sun!
And later that day, her seventh grandchild was born, a young
man named Liam! Congratulations, Eliza.
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