🍆🥬 Suriname Needs More Vegetable Variety 🤷‍♂️ What Gives?

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Something that has negatively affected our health and morale since we arrived in Suriname is the lack of vegetable variety here.

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Variety Is The Spice Of Life

Faced with the prospect of being (stranded) in Suriname a few years more due to COVID-19 complications, visa issues, and our youngest daughter's Cambodian passport soon expiring, the thing we are looking forward to least is the limited selection of vegetables available in this country.

Most of you know my wife @sreypov and I are/were cooks, and we owned a small cafe in Cambodia before coming to the Americas. The first few months in Suriname we pondered the idea of starting a food business of sorts here, but we quickly lost interest in the country after learning the culinary habits and difficulty of obtaining quality and diverse produce.

Basically we would need to be farmers before we could have a cafe, but then we'd never have time to run the cafe if we owned land (can't afford it and don't want it) and farmed it , so it's a bit of a chicken-or-egg conundrum. We'd rather live somewhere with cheap and abundant diverse produce so that our culinary imagination could reignite. All we can do for now is hope for better days and apologize to you all for bearing the brunt of my occasional rants.

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