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Colombian Tamal Foodways

Tamal

Specialised

⚠ EVERY REGION WRAPS A DIFFERENT PARCEL. TAMAL TOLIMENSE — big, plantain leaf, rice, chicken, pork, egg, peas. TAMAL SANTAFEREÑO — Bogotá, with chickpeas. TAMAL VALLUNO — smaller, with maize dough and hogao. TAMAL COSTEÑO / PASTEL — rice-based, Caribbean. TAMAL DE PIPIÁN — Popayán, small, with a peanut-and-potato filling and no meat. ENVUELTO DE MAÍZ and INSULSO — sweet maize parcels. HAYACA in the Llanos. ⚠ THE WRAPPER IS PART OF THE DEFINITION — plantain leaf, maize husk, bijao — and so is whether the base is maize dough or rice. Recording one "Colombian tamal" would delete the whole system.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Colombian tamales are recorded as regionally distinct forms differing in wrapper, base (maize dough or rice), filling and size. Recording a single national tamal would eliminate the documented distinctions and is not done. documented

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Hallaca documented

    ⚠ Related leaf-wrapped maize parcels, NOT the same dish. Different leaf, different guiso, different adornos, different calendar.

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