Want some culture shock? Try Utqiavik, Alaska
A little culture shock can be disconcerting … but how about a 114-degree temperature change?
That’s what Liliana Penuelas experienced. A Cuban native living in Puerto Rico, she decided to join a friend in Alaska’s northern-most city.
When she left, she tells Pati Jinich in a PBS film Tuesday (April 29), it was 90 degrees. When she arrived, it was minus-24. “I thought, ‘What are you doing?!?’”
But she stayed. Now, 34 years later, she’s married to a Mexican native. They have what Jinich (shown here, left) assures us is the only sit-down Mexican restaurant in Utqiagvik, Alaska.
Many such surprises emerge in “Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana,” at 10 p.m. Tuesdays. Read more…