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Y Wladfa

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In 1865 Welsh settlers landed at what became Puerto Madryn and founded Y WLADFA in the Chubut valley, deliberately to preserve the Welsh language away from English — and it survives: PATAGONIAN WELSH is still spoken, taught and broadcast. The food institution is the TE GALÉS, the Welsh tea of Gaiman and Trevelin, with TORTA NEGRA GALESA, a dense dark fruit cake matured for months, plus bara brith and scones. ⚠ NOT SIMPLY WELSH FOOD: it is a 160-year-old Patagonian tradition, and the torta negra in particular has no exact Welsh equivalent.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Welsh Argentines community documented

Languages: Welsh, Spanish

What is recorded

  • Welsh settlers land at what becomes Puerto Madryn and found Y Wladfa in the Chubut valley. documented
  • Y Wladfa was established in the Chubut valley from 1865 to preserve the Welsh language, and Patagonian Welsh continues to be spoken and taught. The té galés and torta negra galesa are recorded as a Patagonian tradition of over 160 years rather than as Welsh food transplanted, the torta negra in particular having no exact Welsh equivalent. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from Welsh Foodways documented

    Y Wladfa was founded in 1865 to preserve the Welsh language in Patagonia; the resulting foodways are Patagonian, not simply Welsh.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Welsh Migration and Diaspora documented

    Y Wladfa in Chubut from 1865 — recorded in the Argentine system as a Patagonian tradition.

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