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Garifuna Foodways in Guatemala

Community

⚠ A SMALL COMMUNITY WITH ITS OWN STANDING, not a Honduran offshoot. The Guatemalan Garifuna are concentrated in LÍVINGSTON (Labuga) in Izabal, with Puerto Barrios and smaller settlements, having arrived along the coast from the 1797 dispersal and in a documented movement of the early nineteenth century. Garifuna is spoken alongside Spanish, English and Q’eqchi’. The foodway is the Garifuna one — EREBA from bitter cassava on the ruguma, HUDUT with fufu/machuca, TAPADO, DARASA, BUNDIGA, coconut rice, GUIFITI, PAN DE COCO — but ⚠ THE LÍVINGSTON TAPADO IS ITS OWN ARTICLE, more strongly associated with Guatemala than with Honduras, and Lívingston’s isolation and Q’eqchi’ neighbours have shaped a distinct local kitchen. 26 NOVEMBER is the Guatemalan Garifuna Day.

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Communities and languages

  • Garifuna community documented

Languages: Garifuna, Spanish, English, Q'eqchi'

What is recorded

  • The Guatemalan Garifuna are concentrated in Lívingston (Labuga) in Izabal with Puerto Barrios and smaller settlements, arriving from the 1797 dispersal and a documented early nineteenth-century movement along the coast. They are recorded as a community with their own standing rather than an offshoot of the Honduran population. The Lívingston tapado is recorded as its own dish. 26 November is observed as Garifuna Day in Guatemala. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Garifuna Foodways in Honduras documented

    ⚠ Related communities, not branches of one another. Lívingston and Dangriga and Sambo Creek each have their own local kitchen.

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