Getting in a Stew?

It’s today (well the 26th Feb 2005 that is!!) at 17.00hrs Dominican time the competition judges will be ‘getting in a stew’…in fact they’ll be getting in several stews as they try to determine the BEST SANCOCHO! And it’s no joke!!! By cooking up a storm and tickling the judges taste-buds most efficiently you could win RD$10,000!!!

The ‘cook off’ has been organized by Raul Perez Peña who spoke, in pre-event publicity, about the cultural significance of this ‘signal’ dish to Dominicans, and referred to the wide variation in Sancocho recipes that can be experienced.

Sancocho is a dish that has a ‘celebratory’ quality to it…prepared as it often is to ‘welcome’ visiting friends and family, or perhaps to bid them 'farewell’ at the end of a visit! Every Dominican (and his or her Mother) know how to make the BEST Sancocho…it is just that no two versions are quite the same.

By the way…the BEST Sancocho recipe is actually HERE…

http://www.visiting-the-dominican-republic.com/sancocho-recipe.html

…if you haven’t found it already…why not take a look now..and treat the family this Sunday?!!

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