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What is a vívere? SO HAPPY that you asked. After much investigation and confusion, I can now confidently say that víveres are the class of vegetables here in the Dominican Republic that are staples in most meals. They MUST be cooked before eating, and a short list of the ones I am most frequently eating (as a full list includes many others) includes plátanos (both verde and maduro), guineo verde, batata, papa, and yucca (green plantains, yellow plantains, green bananas, sweet potato, potato, and yucca). What a short list, you might scoff. But wait – there is an incredible number of ways that these items can be prepared! Víveres are integral to the Dominican diet and are grown throughout the country.  Within my site, agriculture is generally limited to personal gardens and fruit trees, though there are several decently sized plátano plots throughout the community. Once leaving the pueblo, you will quickly find fields and fields of plátanos and guineos, as well as rice paddies, which...