Dominican Living Conditions: Food And Diet

Living Conditions

A. Food and Diet

Typical Meals

What Dominican people tend to eat depends Highly on which area they live, whether in the interior mountains or near the sea. Since most of Dominican dishes evolve in pork, pigs are heavily farmed in most areas of the islands. They have a tradition of stemming from the lesser availability of refrigeration, Dominican restaurants tend to cook or stewed meat dishes very well.

Dominican dishes are known to be filling and practical. They love their rice and pork dishes and different types of seafoods. On the whole Dominican food, they are not cooked fairly plain. They cook their food with a lot of spices, the spices that are generally used to flavor their dishes are yucca, annatto, oregano, allspice, clavo, aniseed, nutmeg, canela and sal en grano.

Dominican

Their coffee ranks as one of the world’s number one. Most Dominicans are taking it in small doses literally smothered in sugar – this is called a café cito. Fresh tropical fruits are also very popular here. Their favorite beverages include banana mama’s, coco loco and other tropical drinks.

The Dominicans also drink a pear, pineapple, and rice concoction called pera pina while orange, milk, and sugar is mixed to form morir sonando. Beer is regularly consumed, including the local favorite, "Presidente," while rum is the most common hard liquor, which is best tried in a drink called mamajuana. Mama Juana is a mixture of bark and herbs left to soak in rum, red wine and honey. Mamajuana is the indigenous drink of the Dominican Republic.

The water is not perfectly safe all over Dominican Republic since 38.4% of water systems have no chlorination system installed. Almost all of the people living in rural areas have limited access to clean water.

B. Housing 1. Types of Housing