The Bread & Soup Project #9 – Aruba

Aruba is an island nation in the Caribbean, a good distance to the west of the Lesser Antilles (remember the Antilles?), and located just a mere 18 miles north of the Venezuelan coast. Over time, it’s been “handed off” (such a polite term for the way I imagine it happened) from the Spanish to the Dutch – its original inhabitants were Caquetios Amerinds from Venezuela, then colonized in the 16th century by the Spanish, and then taken over by the Dutch in 1636. Starting in 1947 a quasi-independ...