Hungry for More?

  If you’re still curious about the history, culture, and cookery of Central America, here is a brief listing of resources containing… Read More

Tortillas

  After long, humid days in the field exploring the flora and fauna of the Belizean jungle, it was a comfort to return to… Read More

The Jungle: Belizean Foodways

  Michael Steinberg is a professor in New College and Geography at The University of Alabama where he runs the Natural Resources Conservation and Mapping Lab. His research and interests focus on wildlife, fisheries, and sporting conservation, human-wildlife conflicts, and conservation mapping.   Michael Steinberg chose Belize. A masters student in science charged by his fiancée to choose a honeymoon location, he looked for somewhere tropically exotic and untraveled that had environmental promise for research. Read More

Gone South: Seeking Central America in Alabama

Central Mesa 519 Greensboro Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35401     This small university town’s stomach resides right in its heart. Where the arteries of McFarland Boulevard and Greensboro Avenue intersect the main vein that is University Boulevard, student housing merges with the University of Alabama’s campus, the bars of the Strip, and the more subdued storefronts of downtown Tuscaloosa. This sliver of the southern United States looks and feels worlds away from the equatorial corridor of Central America. Read More