Edible Wild Beauty of the Chicory

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The nutritious and medicinal properties of this wildflower can blow your mind in a second, as much as its beautiful blue blossom. Rather you call it Achicoria, Blue Sailors, Belgian Endive, Chicorée or Barbe de Capucin, the scientifically named Chicorium intybus can be eaten from the bud to the root, and add lots of vitamins and minerals to your next home made recipe.

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DR, Science and the Environment

As I work towards becoming a science journalist in the US, I kept establishing relationships with editors in the science and environment beats in Dominican media outlets. This is when I start working with Diario Libre’s Multimedia Editor Marvin del Cid. And, for the first time, I pithed and published an enterprise story on endemic monkey fossils from the Hispaniola.

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New findings on Hispaniolan monkeys

The collecting of a primate femur and other fossil remains lead to a new breakthrough in Caribbean paleontology. Specialists discovered fossils of a primate and other species in a southern area of Hispaniola, presented in a preliminary study which suggests a higher level of endemism in the region and extends the territorial distribution patterns of endemic monkeys throughout the island.

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En este año sabático…

Cuando salí de República Dominicana en abril de 2015, la verdad, mi viaje tenía rumbo medio definido. Me fui de Quisqueya por varias razones, más bien, por varias personas: por mí, por mi esposo, por mi familia. Lo que al principio estuvo medio claro y visible en concepto, pasó a ser turbio y opaco con ojos abiertos. Ya me había ido. Estaba en la Gran Manzana y no sabía por dónde morder.

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