food cravings

there are a few foods that i really miss:

• strawberries and blueberries - supposedly we maybe can get strawberries here in december when they are harvested in the mountain town of constanza. but boy, i would love one of PLV's blueberry muffins for breakfast today.
• bagels - speaking of breakfast, i miss everything bagels with sun dried tomato cream cheese. sometimes sandi has bagels at her restaurant, which she gets from a guy who has a shop in santo domingo (3.5 hours away). that helps the fix a little, but it's not the same as a fresh bagel.
• fresh juice - for some reason they don't do a lot of fresh juice here. i mean it just seems like a no-brainer to have fresh juice on a tropical island. someone send a Fresh Samanatha rep here to start up a business.
• sushi - i would not order sushi here even if you held a gun to my head, except at Bobo's in santo domingo, but that's a helluva a drive for a sushi roll. Jae's rocks! i miss Jae's!
• oysters - another item that you can actually get here but i would pass on. i saw guys selling them on the beach in the early summer. they walk around with palm tree leaves that they shaped into a holder for the oysters and ice. pretty clever contraption. but still, i like my oysters a little bit colder than that and who knows when they plucked them out of the sea. mollie is having an oyster party at the end of this month at her house in annapolis. wish we could be there for that! or to be able to just pop into East Coast Grill for a few!
• turkey - don't think they raise a lot of turkeys here in the DR. they have turkey at the grocery store, but it's like $50 a pound or something nuts like that. it seems crazy to spend that much, just for turkey. perhaps i'll make a roast chicken for thanksgiving instead.
• stinky blue cheese - we've been able to enjoy some dutch cheese that veronica's parents brought over, but that is running out. as for stinky blue cheese, have not seen much of any of that here.