With elementary and high school students on extended vacation, popular beach destinations like Puntarenas and Guanacaste are bracing for a major influx of domestic...
Tamales go deep in Costa Rican culture and they are one of the most accessible ways to tap into your inner Tico, especially during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
We’ve been enjoying a harvest of one of our favorite novelty squashes of the tropics. Known as musk cucumber in English, its common name here is Cohombro (Sicana odorifera). This is one of the most unusual plants in the tropics.
Many of the foods we devour on Thanksgiving are part of the same culinary exchange that took place in Central America when Spanish conquistadors, indigenous Americans, and African slaves collaborated on cooking over hundreds of years.
Costa Rican authorities dealt a major blow in the fight against illicit narcotics by dismantling the first fentanyl production and distribution operation uncovered in...
Hacking away handfuls of grass with machetes, Leonel Acosta wages an unequal but hopeful fight to reclaim land deforested by illegal ranching in the...
