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Montubio Foodways

Montubio

Community

⚠ A CONSTITUTIONALLY RECOGNISED PEOPLE, NOT A RURAL STEREOTYPE. The MONTUBIOS are the mixed-descent farming people of the coastal interior — Guayas, Los Ríos, Manabí, El Oro — recognised as a distinct people in the 2008 constitution. Their food is the cooking of the coastal hacienda and smallholding: cattle, maize, rice, plantain, cassava, the wood fire and the clay oven; seco de gallina criolla; caldo de gallina; tonga; bollo; greñoso; the horse and the rodeo montubio; and an agricultural calendar rather than a restaurant one.

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Communities and languages

  • Montubios community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • The Montubios are recognised as a distinct people in the 2008 Ecuadorian constitution. Their foodways are recorded as a coastal rural agricultural tradition tied to cattle, maize, rice, plantain and wood-fire cooking, and not as a generic rural variant of coastal cuisine. documented
  • The Montubios are recognised as a distinct people in the Ecuadorian constitution. documented

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