7 mejores cuentos de Carmen Lyra | 
Finally made some gallo pinto, as mentioned in this book's first story 😁
I used the recipe in https://costa-rica-guide.com/travel/food/gallo-pinto-recipe-costa-rica/ although unfortunately, I had to substitute salsa Lizano for Worcester sauce
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I read the collection's 2nd tale (The Black Girl and the Blond Girl - think Cinderella in #CostaRica with an ugly stepsister plainly described as Black) to the end, hoping for some kind of redeeming twist, but there was none. Carmen Lyra, why the colorism? So much internalised self-hate from an Afrodescendant writer. And so damaging to young readers!
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3 days until August and #CostaRica. I am starting early with 7 folktales from Carmen Lyra, a renowned (her face is on banknotes) author and Montessori educator. Wish me luck: it's in the original Spanish and I am far from fluent. 1st page, and food is mentioned: oregano-flavoured rice omelette and “gallito de frijoles“, which I am guessing is rice and beans.
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