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Guanacaste Foodways

Guanacaste

Regional

⚠ GUANACASTE WAS NICARAGUAN UNTIL 1824 and voted to join Costa Rica; its food still shows it. Dry tropical forest, cattle, and the CHOROTEGA inheritance — the province is the strongest maize culture in Costa Rica. CHORREADAS, the thick fresh-maize pancake with natilla. TANELAS, rosquillas and the maize breads. ARROZ DE MAÍZ. Big tortillas. BAJO/olla de carne. The pejibaye. Cheese and natilla from the cattle ranches. And the CHOROTEGA ceramic tradition at Guaitil, which is a foodware tradition as much as an art one.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Chorotega community documented

Languages: Spanish, Mangue

What is recorded

  • Guanacaste (the Partido de Nicoya) votes for annexation to Costa Rica, having previously been Nicaraguan. documented
  • Guanacaste was part of Nicaragua until its annexation to Costa Rica in 1824, and its maize-centred foodways and Chorotega inheritance are documented as reflecting that history. Chorreadas, tanelas and arroz de maíz are recorded as regional forms. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Nicaraguan Cuisine documented

    ⚠ Guanacaste was Nicaraguan until 1824 and its maize culture still shows it.

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