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German-Chilean Foodways

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State-sponsored German settlement from 1850 in Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Puerto Varas, Frutillar and Llanquihue, on land the state treated as vacant and which was not. The result is visible: KUCHEN as an ordinary Chilean word and food, once, crudos (a steak tartare), smallgoods and sausage, dairy and cheese, and the brewing that made southern Chile the country’s beer region. ⚠ NOT GERMAN FOOD — a Chilean regional cuisine of German descent, 175 years old.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • German Chileans community documented

Languages: Spanish, German

What is recorded

  • German settlement in southern Chile from 1850 was state-sponsored on land treated as unoccupied and which was not. The resulting kuchen, smallgoods, dairy and brewing traditions are recorded as a Chilean regional cuisine of German descent rather than as German food. documented
  • State-sponsored German settlement of Valdivia, Osorno, Puerto Varas and Llanquihue. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from German Foodways documented

    State-sponsored settlement from 1850; the result is a Chilean regional cuisine, not German food abroad.

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