http://gringotambo.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/ideas-of-convenience-environmentalism-and-diapers/ Social scientists thinking about Bolivia Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:02:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://gringotambo.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/ideas-of-convenience-environmentalism-and-diapers/#comment-93 Clare Sammells Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:49:53 +0000 http://blog.gringotambo.org/?p=11#comment-93 This reminds me of another set of conflicting ideas about sanitation that I discovered while conducting research on food in La Paz. While most gringos and upper-class Bolivians assume that restaurants were more hygenic than street-food, I found that street-food vendors and their clients claimed that their food was healthier because it was always cooked fresh, and never kept from one day to the next. This reminds me of another set of conflicting ideas about sanitation that I discovered while conducting research on food in La Paz. While most gringos and upper-class Bolivians assume that restaurants were more hygenic than street-food, I found that street-food vendors and their clients claimed that their food was healthier because it was always cooked fresh, and never kept from one day to the next.

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