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The Authentic Diet of a True Panza Verde

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The myth of why people from Antigua Guatemala are called panzas verdes, or green bellies, states that the reason is all the avocados they eat. Certainly, we eat a lot of avocados here since we have several kinds and a plentiful supply of aguacates. Even on this website we reinforced the myth almost a decade … Read more

Guatemalan Basket Food: Bledo

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© Guatemalan Basket Food: Bledo by Rudy Giron

Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Bledo or amaranth. Bledo, chipilín, macuy, iguashte are part of the comidas de canasta, basket foods, or comidas tanatiadas, bunch foods. In other words, you order a tanate, bunch, of chipilín or bledo or whatever is available. Often though, you order more than one tanate to sample different … Read more