We’re Women of Maize
As I said before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh …
As I said before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh …
Café Santa María is quite possibly the most popular comedor in Antigua Guatemala nowadays. I eat there at least twice a week …
It is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh (Popol Wuj in modern …
We are men of maize!. As I have said before, it’s impossible to think the Guatemalan and Mesoamerican diets without maize. From …
We are what we eat. So Guatemalans are made from a big proportion of maize, beans, fruits and vegetables. Of course, beans …
Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Special preview screening of the documentary “Dance of the Maize God” by filmmaker …
Very often I see women on their way to the maize mill to turn nixtamalized maized into masa dough to make tortillas. …
This has to be one of the most frequent vistas in rural Guatemala. A woman or girl carrying a load of cooked …
Before what we know today as Guatemala vanishes into the fragile realm of memory, I am glad I can take some mementos …
The Guatemalan way of life is rapidly disappearing right in front of our eyes. Today’s entry is such a case, as the …
We’re men of maize! No wonder in Guatemala we eat corn on the cob in so many ways. The two most popular …
Who wants freshly made corn on the cob? As I have mentioned before, we are hombres de maíz, men of maize, therefore …
Men of Maize Revisited! “There was consensus and it was decided to bring the purple maize, the yellow maize, the red maize …
As I have mentioned before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul …
Let me introduce the famous “Tamalito de Elote.” Made of corn, it’s one of the simplest ones when it comes to its …
Since We’re Men of Maize it’s no wonder that we also do many things with the by-products of maize. We use corn …
We are men of maize! It is impossible to think the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh …
Frijoles colorados or red beans is the second best dish after black beans, of course, in the Guatemalan kitchen. Here you have …
How was it, a room with a view or a lunch with a view? Well, here it was lunch with a panoramic …
Quite possibly the Maya have been eating avocado toasts for millennia or at least as long as they had realized that spreading …
As I mentioned last Friday, we now have Colombian arepas and Venezuelan arepas in Antigua Guatemala within a block from each other. The arepa shown here …
Believe it or not, we now have Colombian arepas and Venezuelan arepas in Antigua Guatemala within a block from each other. The …
How many kinds of tamales are there in Guatemala? As explained in the entry, The Main Ingredients of the Guatemalan Chuchitos, these …
The caldo de patas stew or stock is made with muscles and bones from the lower legs of either pork or cow, …
The chief agronomist of The United Fruit Company, Wilson Popenoe, took the local avocado variant to California and from it the California …
Within two weeks the harvest time will commence around Antigua Guatemala for corn. Normally, maize is harvested from the end of October …
I enjoy talking to and interviewing the campesinos I encounter on my morning walks on the hills of the skirt of Volcán …
As I have shared before, pupusas are better known in Guatemala as tortilla con chicharrón or tortilla con queso, et cetera. I …
Last week we did a mini series on campesinos and the milpa fields located on the skirt of Volcán de Agua. Today …
So far in these milpa fields I have found beans, squash, red onions, fruit trees, and flowers. However, as explained before, in …
Don Alejandro, 78, has four cuerdas [1/6 of block equals 1 cuerda] on communal or municipal land where he grows maize and …
Another common sight of the #RealGuatemala around Antigua Guatemala is the peasants on their way to work their land. This is especially …
If you have follow my daily posts in AntiguaDailyPhoto for a few months or a few years, one thing would very obvious …
Batido is a fruity drink topped with a powder called pinol, a coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often in …
There are many recycling approaches that people use in Guatemala. Interesting enough, at first glance it may seem that there are NO …
Often I have shared with you the different recycling programs available around Antigua Guatemala. There are many recycling approaches that people use …
This photos was taken on the outskirts of Volcán de Agua where many people have milpas and orchards. Besides the obvious corn …
It does not matter where you go in Guatemala, you are certain to find elotes asados (charbroiled corn on the cob). This …
In Guatemala poinsettias are known as Flor de Pascua, Flor de Noche Buena or simply Pascuas. Poinsettias are native to Guatemala and …
Pupusas are better known in Guatemala as tortilla con chicharrón or tortilla con queso, et cetera. I called them Mayan pizzas. Pupusas …
One of the things I look forward to most when venturing out on a little jaunt outside of La Antigua is elote. …
Colorful Guatemala, I tell you, colorful Guatemala! Si ni los mismos guatemaltecos logramos entender la complejidad cultural en la que vivimos… —Ale …
Today is theme day for the City Daily Photo community around the world; 840 daily city web sites thus far. For the …
Okay, get your Guatemalan notebook handy, we’re about to learn a few Guatemalan words and concepts. Rabo Guisado translate roughly as ox …
Sure, you say, the traje indígena is a far out outfit, but are there really symbols encoded in these garments? Once again, …
Atol blanco is one of the most emblematic drinks of the Guatemalan Cuisine. Very few meals or drinks can define or identify …
Well, for starters you need ‘real’ nixtamalized maize dough (nothing of the maseca flour that Manolo uses), a ‘real’ comal (baked clay griddle) and you need to use ‘real’ leña (wood logs, quite possibly pine). After that, you need a good pair of hand to tortear (hit into shape) a real looking tortilla. You don’t need no sticking mold to shape your tortillas ma’am. 😉
The tree of knowledge was an apple tree and Newton took a bite from a fallen apple. The rest is history they say, but history is being rewritten as we speak.
Papas fritas is the Guatemalan Spanish name for French fries. Here is the abbreviated history that gave us the Guatemalan french fries stall: first the Quechuas or Incas domesticated the potato (Solanum tuberosum) into a crop in southern Peru and northern Bolivia; the Spanish conquistadors took it to Europe where it was an instant hit and along with maize turned a famine-prone population into a healthy society; somewhere in one of the northern European states, quite possibly Germany, the potato lost its skin and got deep-fried; This Eurpean recipe crossed the Atlantic with the new immigrants that came to U.S. and since it was a foreign-looking recipe, they called it French fries (remember Coneheads); so the French fries came to Guatemala along one of the many incursions from the United Stateians (Americans they seem to call themselves 😉 ) as a side dish for the hamburger or the hot dog. Guatemalans thought that French fries were too good to be side dish and turned it into a meal by itself. That is how the papas fritas cart came to be.
Yesterday I mentioned that the traditional baked-clay comales are disappearing in Guatemala in favor of the metal comal; heated through gas. All …
Continuing with our milpa crops, here we have the most widely eaten Guatemalan tamal(e), which goes by the name of chuchito (puppy …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Pache, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Tamales are an ancient American food, made throughout the continent for over 5000 years. How …
Pupusas is a name inherited from El Salvador to a dish which can be found in the Southeast Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, …