Honduran Festival Foodways

Festival

SEMANA SANTA — fish and dried salt fish, sopa de capirotadas, torrejas, ayote and camote en dulce, and the sawdust alfombras of Comayagua. CHRISTMAS and Nochebuena — NACATAMALES, torrejas, rompopo, and the meal after midnight. FERIA DE LA VIRGEN DE SUYAPA in February, the national patronal feast at Tegucigalpa. LA FERIA JUNIANA in San Pedro Sula. CARNAVAL DE LA CEIBA in May, the north coast’s largest. 12 APRIL, the Garifuna Settlement observance of the 1797 landing, with ereba, hudut and punta. DÍA DEL MAÍZ and municipal patronal fairs with their own foods. ⚠ GUANCASCO, the paired-community Lenca ceremonial visit and shared meal, is recorded as existing and no ritual interior is published.