Paraguayan Cuisine

Where in the world

• Paraguay territory

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• influenced by Guaraní Foodways documented
• related to Argentine Cuisine documented

  The largest immigrant community in Argentina is Paraguayan, and the Argentine northeast shares the Guaraní layer.

• related to Bolivian Cuisine documented

  The Chaco, shared Guaraní communities, and the 1932-35 war fought across it.

• related to Brazilian Cuisine documented

  The brasiguayo farming migration, the eastern border, and chipa and churrasco crossing both ways.

• related to Guaraní Foodways documented

  ⚠ The closest relationship in this file. Guaraní is co-official and spoken by a majority; Paraguayan food is Guaraní in its ingredients, its names and its techniques.

• related to Río de la Plata Foodways documented

  Through mate, the river system and the Guaraní layer, rather than through the Italian immigration that defines the estuary itself.

• related to Spanish Foodways documented

  Colonial settlement from 1537, and a mestizaje that kept the Indigenous language rather than replacing it.

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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