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Afro-Uruguayan Foodways

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Enslaved Africans were brought through Montevideo, which was a major slave port for the whole region, and Afro-Uruguayans are a recognised and long-established population concentrated in Montevideo โ€” Barrio Sur and Palermo โ€” and in the north. CANDOMBE, the drumming and procession tradition of the comparsas, is inscribed on the UNESCO intangible heritage list and its llamadas carry their own street food. โš  THE CULINARY RECORD IS THIN AND THAT IS ITSELF EVIDENCE of how thoroughly the contribution was written out of a national story that insisted Uruguay was European. Documented links exist to the saladero and domestic kitchens and to the borrowed offcuts that became achuras.

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Communities and languages

  • Afro-Uruguayans community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Montevideo functioned as a major slave port for the region and Afro-Uruguayans are a long-established recognised population. Candombe is inscribed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list. The thinness of the documented Afro-Uruguayan culinary record reflects a national narrative that presented the country as European, and that gap is stated rather than filled by supposition. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to African Foodways documented

    Montevideo was a major slave port for the region; candombe is on the UNESCO list.

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