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Honduran North Coast Foodways

Coastal

⚠ THE LONGEST CARIBBEAN COASTLINE IN CENTRAL AMERICA, and a food world that is not the interior’s. Atlántida, Colón, Cortés and northern Yoro: LA CEIBA, Tela, Trujillo, Puerto Cortés, Omoa. COCONUT is the fat and the liquid — rice cooked in coconut milk, fish in coconut milk, coconut bread. CASSAVA, plantain in every stage of ripeness, breadfruit, yam and malanga. Reef and lagoon fish, snapper, snook, shrimp, crab, conch. PESCADO FRITO whole with tajadas and curtido. SOPA DE CARACOL and TAPADO. Baleadas are here too — ⚠ THE NORTH COAST IS WHERE THE BALEADA IS MOST STRONGLY ATTESTED. And the GARIFUNA towns are strung along this coast, which is a presence, not a seasoning.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Garifuna community documented
  • Ladinos community documented

Languages: Spanish, Garifuna, English

What is recorded

  • The Honduran Caribbean coast is the longest in Central America. Coconut milk, cassava, plantain and reef and lagoon seafood are documented as its basis, and Garifuna communities are distributed along its length. The baleada is most strongly attested on this coast. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Baleada documented

    Most strongly attested on the north coast; no origin is assigned to a named person or stall.

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