
Tres Leches Cake in a Jar from Los 7 Caldos
Just when you think you have covered every single corner of La Antigua Guatemala, you come across something that you should have …
Just when you think you have covered every single corner of La Antigua Guatemala, you come across something that you should have …
In case you haven’t and you would like to try them, well, just head over to Antigua Guatemala’s Macadamia farm Valhalla. A …
You know what, I just realized that there are as many panaderías, bakeries, and pastelerías, cake shops in Antigua Guatemala as there …
Well, almost a year ago, I presented you with the new paint job of the Iglesia de San Pedro Apostol San Juan …
Regardless what you may be thinking right about now, this is not edible. Believe it when I tell you this is not …
Even though the façade of this parish looks like a ruin, it is an actual temple still being used. Some of you …
This is a good question, is the milhojas a cake or a pie? What are your thoughts? Believe it or not, I …
On the west side of the main square of Antigua Guatemala you will find the Portal de las Panaderas, which in colonial times …
The afternoons colors in Antigua Guatemala are usually warm with the light hitting the walls to make it a delightful experience. I …
Just as 4a calle poniente has turned into fast-food alley, Alameda Santa Lucía is becoming the coffee shop boulevard. Aria Coffee Shop …
If you’re looking for artisan breads there are three options in Antigua Guatemala as of now. There are two stands inside La …
I don’t recall if I have mentioned it before, but Cookies is a great little cafe to meet people or indulge oneself …
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pupusas for cornmeal cakes or pizzas. Pupusa is a name inherited from El …
What better way to start the new year than hanging out with friends at parque central of La Antigua Guatemala; sharing a …
In Guatemala, turrón or meringue is the word for well-beaten egg whites and sugar. Now, what’s the difference between merengue and meringue? …
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Carnaval, or meat festival, or carnival. As I have said before in previous years, the …
This German-style finquero breakfast is another option to desayunar at Valhalla Macadamia farm. Of course, the first choice should be the macadamia …
This bratwurst mit sauerkraut, German sausage, can be had at Wurst Eck, about half block north of the Tanque de La Unión …
That’s blackberry-chipotle beef steak for you. I don’t remember if I mentioned it before, but in Guatemala blackberry is the berry more …
Sólo amamos lo que conocemos (we only love what we really know) is the slogan of the advanced course from Universidad de …
Café Barista is the Guatemalan coffee house chain equivalent to what Starbucks is in the U.S. more or less. I don’t visit …
One of the best representatives of the jazz in Central America, Editus, had a show tonight in Finca Filadelfia on International Jazz …
Of course, these ladies who prepare us our daily tortillas can not be missing in series about the real Guatemala. Here we …
Ordinarily, I begin by asking readers to recall their earliest memories to provide a context for corpocratic historians of the future… Could …
There’s nothing like on-the-spot-freshly-cooked tortillas to accompany your Guatemalan meals. If you grew up eating freshly-made tortillas, the aroma near a tortilleria …
We Guatemalans are the best recyclers in the world. That’s what I was trying to convey a couple of weeks ago with …
As published last year, these colorful Guatemalan cascarones [eggshells] filled with confetti are known as cascarones de carnaval [carnival] and they mark …
Interesting enough, I have not encountered many restaurants that offer waffles; or perhaps I wasn’t looking. However, for some reason, waffles jumped …
These colorful Guatemalan cascarones [eggshells] filled with confetti are known as cascarones de carnaval [carnival] and they mark the arrival of carnaval …
Well, it was only a matter of time and natural that someone in La Antigua Guatemala would try to make a coffee …
It’s kind of paradoxical that in a place like La Antigua Guatemala things change in the blink of an eye. But, things …
I have shown you the typical Guatemalan breakfast at least three times and each time has been somehow different, how so? Well, …
Cutting a cake for an anniversary is quite commom through out the world, including Guatemala, however, here we also have an alternative: …
One of the best things about living in La Antigua Guatemala is dining out. Almost everywhere you go you will find elegant, …
I think this Subway franchise will have to use its second slogan: The Way A Sandwich Should Be because the Eat fresh may not work in a place like Antigua Guatemala, where most places serve REAL fresh food. With all of these transnational fast-food restaurants in La Antigua Guatemala, we still have to make a run for the border or drive to Guatemala City if we’d like to think outside the bun while enjoying a bean and cheese burrito.
What about the Guatemalan Sweet Bread?
Oh yeah, I am rambling again. In the photo above you see one of things Guatemalans abroad miss the most: Sweet Guatemalan Bread. I have talked about cutting a cake for this anniversary, but then I decided to shared the poor Guatemalans alternative: La Torta, this huge sweet bread, takes the place of the cake for many Guatemalan families. Also, as suggested by some friends, I decided to include other pieces of the Guatemalan sweet bread repertoire for all those chapines abroad. In Guatemala, we dip the bread in the coffee, as described by Manolo in LD’s entry about Miss Manners International. Since Manolo can not find champurradas (the flat tortilla-like bread in the picture) in Toronto, he dips his cookies in the coffee. I hope you don’t get grossed out by my dipping the bread in the coffee; I am doing it for the full impact on those Guatemalans who live abroad and visit this site infrequently.
The sweet Guatemalan bread in this picture comes from a very popular bakery in La Antigua Guatemala by the name of San Antonio, which stills uses brick ovens and wooden logs. The bread is baked freshly twice a day and with the best recipes from La Antigua Guatemala, the culinary capital of Guatemala. Sweet bread dipped in a cup of the best coffee in the world (from Antigua, of course), what else can you ask from life?
The bibliobuses’ route takes them around Sacatepequez, that is the name of the State where La Antigua Guatemala is located—called Departamentos in Guatemala, visiting the villages around La Antigua for two hour per stop and returning every week. So kids with no access to public libraries, get the chance to read and check out the material in the mobile library chicken buses once a week. Here is the side view with the contact information of Probigua and their motto: Please Help Us to Help!
The restaurant and bakery housed under the name of Doña Luisa Xicotencatl, on 4a calle oriente #12 in La Antigua Guatemala, has …
Yesterday I mentioned that the traditional baked-clay comales are disappearing in Guatemala in favor of the metal comal; heated through gas. All …
Antigua’s green corner, originally uploaded by rudygiron. This corner has appeared in two previous photos: the street lamp on Antigua’s rush hour …