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Fine Chocolate Available in Boquete

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Boquete’s Sugar & Spice Bakery Pastry Chef, Richard Meyer has presented two very successful cooking classes for Boquete Gourmet during these last few weeks. Richard’s dishes were decadent and many students enjoyed the class so[...]

Boquete?s Coffee Mate ? Peach Buckle

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With all the fine coffee available in Boquete, it’s popular to invite guests over for “coffee”, which means that you’ll be serving locally-grown, fresh-roasted coffee and coffee cake or something that goes well with[...]

Murals of Boquete #6 & ?All That Jazz!?

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The Boquete Jazz Festival begins this week and it’s going to be the best year ever!  The big events are held at the outdoor amphitheater in Valle Escondido, a beautiful community near the town center in Boquete, Panama. Each year, the[...]

Taste is First at Boquete?s New Oasis

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Right in the middle of Boquete, just across the new bridge, I found a lovely “new” restaurant, El Oasis. The tasty dinner I ordered, boneless leg of lamb, garlic mashed potatoes and ratatouille, was outstanding. Usually, I tell[...]

Boquete Gourmet Community Cookbook is Here and You?re Invited to the Party!

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Many residents and contributors to the new “Boquete Gourmet Community Cookbook” have been anxiously waiting the arrival of the published books themselves. Attendees of Boquete’s Tuesday Morning Market have tasted some of the[...]

My New French Press

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It’s about time I have a real French Press, especially since I’m tasting all the fine coffees grown in Panama. I took a seminar about the many varieties of coffee grown in Boquete and the instructor said that she thought the best way[...]

Squirt?s Sesame Salad

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There is no better way to spend Christmas Eve in Boquete than chatting with good friends, listening to lively holiday music, and dining on tasty home-cooked, comfort foods.  This was a special evening filled with fun and new friends as close as[...]

Coffee Recipe Roundup

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Boquete Gourmet is writing and compiling recipes for the first “BOQUETE GOURMET COMMUNITY COOKBOOK”, to be available this June. The developing and collecting of interesting, useful, local recipes has begun. I’m[...]

Jamon Serrano Calzone

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A reader sent me a comment that Price Smart in David, Panama sold the Jamon Serrano and that he thought it was very expensive. The price was $125 for a whole ham, probably including the stand. At the “Museum of Ham” in Madrid,[...]

Rolling Sweet Potatoes

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Have you ever rolled a sweet potato, carrot or chayote? It sounds a bit silly, but I tried it and it was really good. It’s a bit difficult to find sweet potatoes in Boquete, but they are usually available in the nearby city of David.[...]