Buying the Afternoon Delivery Guatemalan Bread
Somethings are changing in the Guatemalan lifestyle. Others, luckily, remain the same, like hot-just-out-of-the-oven bread delivery in the rainy afternoons in La Antigua Guatemala.
Here we see an indigenous woman purchasing some pan frances and sweet bread to prepare the afternoon “refa” (short for refacción or snack break), the only refacción some people got in their childhood even though there is also a morning refacción. 
The smell of the hot Guatemalan bread can make you stop for a bit from a busy schedule, like it did to me just the other day. I bought a cubilete and one champurrada to dunk in my cup of coffee.
What kind of bread would you buy from the panadero delivery?
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July 4th, 2008
mmmmmmm…. “pan de yemas” is one of my favourites. Could you get me also a couple of “churros”, one “besito”, and some “semitas”. These last ones, semitas, have aniseed in them and are not to be confused with the “semitas” from Mexico, nor with the “semitas” from El Salvador.
July 4th, 2008
I don’t know one Guatemalan bread from another, however, I have not met too many breads of any nationality that I did not like! I am sure I would love just about any of them. Our tour guide bought some orange colored bread at a stall in Cuidad Viejo (I think) for us as we were traveling. Yummy!
July 4th, 2008
champurradas, hojaldras, or lenguas, though lenguas I think only certain stores make. . .
July 5th, 2008
champurradas, hojaldras, besitos y cachitos de totonicapan…