Guatemalan Cuisine: Chojin
Chojín is a word that I learned recently. Most of my life I just thought that radish salad was ensalada de rábano. …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Guacamol
Guacamol has to be among the most present sauces or salads in the Guatemalan cuisine; as well as chirmol and often together. …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Ensalada de Verduras
Contrary to popular belief, Guatemalans do have a large selection of salads in their gastronomy palette, including, of course, one of the …
Changing a light bulb
How many people are required to change a light bulb? a whole crew and a truck with basket if the light bulb …
Finca Washbasins and Water Tanks
Don’t ask me, but how did the venerable utilitarian pila (water tank) and lavadero (washbasin) became decorations elements or design accents? In …
Valle de Panchoy’s Coffee Jelly
Well, it was only a matter of time and natural that someone in La Antigua Guatemala would try to make a coffee …
Guatemalan Cuisine: piloyada antigüeña
The Piloyada Antigüeña is one of the most classic dishes from La Antigua Guatemala. Piloyada antigüeña takes its name from the piloy …
Antigua’s Antique Bicycles
This how imagine a parking lot looked like at the beginning of the 20th Century in La Antigua Guatemala. Nowadays, however, I …
Vive tu vida y deja vivir
Vive tu vida y deja vivir translate more or less to Live and let live. Well, I can believe I am letting …
Salvadoreans Flock to Antigua Guatemala
These are the most common license plates in La Antigua Guatemala right now. I could go as far as saying that there …
Guatever
Guatever. I want one because I like the color, the typography and the chapín twist. Where can I buy it? Now, can …
Market Marchers Manifestation
La Antigua Guatemala sí es Guatemala after all. I hate to admit it, but Manolo was right! Just when I think Antigua …
Ubi’s Ceviche
Last week Jonathan Gold from LA Weekly and Evan Kleinman host of KCRW’s Good Food program did a review of La Cevicheria, …
Thought Provoking Art at Casa Santo Domingo
As you walk around Casa Santo Domingo, you find antique and contemporary artworks one after the other without disrupting harmony and a …
Art at Casa Santo Domingo
Hotel + Museo Casa Santo Domingo takes very seriously the museo, museum, part of its name. Not only there are several museums …