613. Curaçao’s Obsession with Dutch Royalty

King Willem-Alexander and his more glamorous half, Queen Máxima, visited the Dutch Caribbean islands for the first time as ‘official’ monarchs this past week. The King was inaugurated on April 30, 2013 and promised to continue his mother’s course, stressing

621. The Ç

“Ç”, “ç” (cedilla) is a Latin script letter and appears in the Albanian, Azerbaijani, Ligurian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Kurdish and Zazaki alphabets. “Ç” also appears in Catalan, French, Friulian, Occitan, and Portuguese languages as a variant of the letter “c”. “Ç” represents the “soft” sound /s/ where a

737. Curaçao Passover Charoset

Last week I found myself making a Passover favorite, Garosa (Charoset), just like my mama and her mama and her mama and her mama before her. Meant to symbolize the sticky-and-strong mortar Hebrew slaves used to build clay bricks in Egypt