This book explores the foodways of a small community on Colombia’s Pacific coast where most of the residents are of Afro-Colombian descent. Handsome photography gives us sense of a lush, verdant place where people rely on locally grown and caught foods to produce dishes such as: Corn and coconut milk porridge scented with vanilla Fish-stuffed arepas made with a plantain dough Cheese and potato soup Chicken, spinach, and carambola salad Ginger-cinnamon cake, typically prepared atop a wood-burning stove Many recipes are attributed to particular local cooks, and a recurring theme is that many of the simplest, most traditional foods are passing out of fashion, a theme which recurs in several essays on vanishing practices, such as birth and death celebrations. A welcome and touching effort to preserve aspects of a distinctive way of life. Hardcover. Color photographs throughout. In Spanish.
