Monday, August 22, 2016

Day 53 _ Orange Juice


Orange Juice

On a warm tropical morning, there is nothing better than fresh squeezed orange juice.  I thought I would show you how it is done here in Santa Cruz.


I remember getting a nice orange juice from a lady outside the Capilla Jesus Nazareno, Chapel of Jesus the Nazarene.  So I walked over there today.  While she made me an orange juice and I took pictures, I asked how she is doing.  “Life is hard,” she said. Mostly her problems centered on how people treat her poorly.  I left a little extra from my $0.50 orange juice.  It was just a few cents more, but I thought she would cry.




So here is how she makes it.  First, she has a little hand operated machine that peals the orange.  All her oranges had just been peeled, so I have no pictures of the oranges getting peeled.  Then she cuts about four oranges in half.  One at a time, she puts a half in the press and squeezes out the delicious goodness.  You can smell it!


The finished product is delicious, fresh squeezed orange juice for about $0.50.

I could go to the market and buy a bottle of OJ, but the experience is so much richer.

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