Antigua Guatemala’s Village Entrepreneurs
Here’s a grandmother and granddaughter partnering in this small enterprise to bring organic, GMO free, gluten free, fruit and vegetable booth. How …
Beans and grains booth inside the Antigua Guatemala market
Look at all the different kinds of beans available at this grains stand inside the mercado of Antigua Guatemala. The same can …
Market Vs Supermarkets in Antigua Guatemala
Here are two different approaches to the distribution and sale of food. On one hand, the mercado is an agglomeration of small …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Anyone, Anyone?
A visit to el mercado of Antigua Guatemala can be an assault on the senses. Rich saturated colours, beats and rhythm to …
Guatemalan Peaches Are in Season No
The rainy season is upon us and so other fruits are now becoming available, such as peaches, nectarines, etc. Also, May is …
Thanksgiving with Tropical Fruits in Antigua Guatemala
In Guatemala we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, well, most Guatemalans don’t, some do and most ex-pats from the U.S. do as well. Anyhow, …
Strawberries Are in Season in Guatemala Now
You know the fruits and vegetables are very good and quite inexpensive in Guatemala. Right now you get five pounds of strawberries …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Available Year Round
We are so fortunate in Antigua Guatemala to have a fresh plentiful supply of tropical fruits all year long. And quite inexpensive …
Fresh Tropical Fruits To Go
Everywhere in Guatemala you can find fresh fruit ready to go inside a transparent plastic bag. Often you can can these fruit …
Fruit and Vegetable Ambulant Vendors
As mentioned before, if we are what we eat, then this is what Guatemalans are made of. The fruits and vegetables in …
Market Pick-Me-Up
Sweet. Juicy. Succulent. Happy. Fresh. Inviting. These are just some of the words that come to mind whenever I spy the overflowing …
The Computer Enters the Guatemalan Market
There’s no coming back. I was surprise to see a computer being used among all the fresh produce in the mercado (market) …
Fresh Produce at Antigua’s Market
You can go every day to el mercado (market) of La Antigua Guatemala, but if you go Monday, Thursday or Saturday, you …
Tropical Fruits Guatemalan Breakfast
I guess you can have a breakfast like the one pictured above just about anywhere in the world since these tropical fruits are shipped everywhere now. This breakfast, however, was made from fresh fruits grown and harvested within an hour or so from La Antigua Guatemala; with luck the fruits were picked the day before.