Ecuadorian Cuisine

Where in the world

• Ecuador territory

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• related to Amazonian Foodways documented

  Half the national territory is Amazonian, and its peoples belong to a basin-wide food system rather than to an Andean one.

• related to Colombian Cuisine documented

  The Pacific coast, the Andean corridor, the Amazon and the Awá and Pasto peoples all cross the border; so do arepa-adjacent maize breads, sancocho and the coconut kitchen of the Pacific.

• related to Peruvian Cuisine documented

  A shared Andean and Pacific inheritance, an Inca period in common, and a long argument about ceviche in which neither side is recorded here as right.

• related to Quechua Foodways documented

  ⚠ The deepest relationship. Kichwa is the northern branch of the Quechuan family and Ecuador’s largest Indigenous nationality; maize, potato, chicha and the festival calendar come with it.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• migrated to Venezuelan Diaspora Foodways documented
• related to Colombian Cuisine documented

  The Pacific coast, the Andean corridor, the Amazon, the Awá and the Eperara all cross the border; Nariño eats closer to Ecuador than to Bogotá.

• related to Emberá and Wounaan Foodways documented

  Emberá and Eperara communities live on both sides of the border, and in Panama.

Regional cuisines

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