Venezuela is my #FOODANDLIT country for April. Two library books- all they had and my book When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann, who grew up in Venezuela.
📘”When Time Stopped is a beautifully told story of personal discovery, of almost unimaginable human bravery and sacrifice, and a harrowing portrait of living, dying, and surviving under the yoke of Nazism.”
📙Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela was written by William Neuman, a correspondent of The New York Times. The book chronicles Neuman’s experiences and reporting from his time spent in Venezuela between 2012 and 2019.
🇻🇪Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America with diverse natural attractions. Along its Caribbean coast are tropical resort islands including Isla de Margarita and the Los Roques archipelago. To the northwest are the Andes Mountains and the colonial town of Mérida, a base for visiting Sierra Nevada National Park. Caracas, the capital, is to the north.
🇻🇪Venezuela is home to the world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls
🇻🇪The U.S. Department of State strongly recommends U.S. citizens do not travel to Venezuela. If you must travel to Venezuela, we recommend you avoid all land border crossings into Venezuela on the Colombian border. Detentions of U.S. citizens at formal or informal border crossings into Venezuela are common.
👩🏻🍳Pabellón Criollo is the iconic food of Venezuela, and for very good reasons. It features shredded beef, rice, black beans, and fried plantains as the main ingredients. What you get is a wonderfully balanced, flavor-packed supper, symbolizing Venezuelan history and culture.
☕️Venezuela is a country that produces various types of coffee. Arabica and robusta coffee varieties are grown in different regions of the country.
Arabica coffee thrives at high altitudes, while robusta coffee is preferred at lower altitudes.
