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Honduran Diaspora Foodways

Diaspora

⚠ A VERY LARGE DIASPORA WITH DATABLE CAUSES. Emigration accelerated after HURRICANE MITCH in 1998, which destroyed a large share of Honduran agriculture and led to Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans in the United States, and again after 2009 and through the 2010s with violence, coffee-price collapse and drought in the Central American Dry Corridor. The communities: NEW ORLEANS above all — the oldest and densest, built by the banana trade between Honduras and the Louisiana ports, which is why Honduran food has been in New Orleans for a century — plus Houston, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Charlotte and Atlanta; and Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Canada. The foods that travelled: BALEADAS above all, plus tamales, nacatamales, sopa de caracol, pastelitos, pan de coco, quesillo and mantequilla crema — the last two imported or made locally because the plate does not work without them. ⚠ REMITTANCES ARE A VERY LARGE SHARE OF HONDURAN GDP and are a food-system fact.

Atlas — where and when

Communities and languages

  • Hondurans abroad community documented
  • Garifuna diaspora community documented

Languages: Spanish, Garifuna, English

What is recorded

  • Honduran emigration accelerated after Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which led to Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans in the United States, and again through the 2010s with violence, coffee price collapse and drought in the Central American Dry Corridor. New Orleans holds the oldest and densest Honduran community in the United States, documented as a product of the banana trade between Honduras and the Louisiana ports. Remittances are a very large share of Honduran GDP. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • migrated to American documented

    ⚠ New Orleans is the oldest and densest Honduran community in the United States, built by the banana trade between Honduras and the Louisiana ports.

  • related to Louisiana Foodways documented

    A century of Honduran presence in New Orleans through the banana trade.

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