A new-fangled old-fashioned contraption (part III)...

Santa Catarina Palopo, Guatemala, August 2011 - An early morning smokey haze hovers above the
village as the women fire up their wood burners to prepare breakfast.  This is the equivalent of Main St.
(and one of just two roads in town).  Back in 1977, Linda I lived in a one-room casita right about
where the red storefront is in this photo (center-left), and the road was hard-packed dirt.

Can you imagine having to build a fire everytime you wanted to
cook something?  Me neither.  But that's what millions of people
around the world have to do each day if they want hot food (and
who doesn't prefer their food good and hot?).  Count the
indigenous people of Guatemala -- including our friends in Santa
Catarina -- among those millions who, knowing nothing
else, still cook everything with wood as their primary fuel.

If you have a few minutes, check out this VIDEO.  It will
help you appreciate all the more just how amazing your trusty
electric or gas stove really is....