After Taste Antigua’s Street Food Tour on one day, followed by the cooking workshop at El Frijol Feliz (The Happy Bean) the next (and with leftovers in the fridge), I was really thinking I should have left at least a day in between before embarking on another cooking workshop at La Tortilla Cooking School. Oh […]
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Arriving in Antigua, Guatemala I was so happy to discover that I didn’t have to look far to find foodie workshops. I started my gastronomy exploration with Taste Antigua’s Street Food Tour and then signed up for two cooking workshops – one with El Frijol Feliz (The Happy Bean) and the other through La Tortilla
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Anyone who has spent any time at all travelling in Latin America knows that the water out of the tap is usually not drinkable (Santiago in Chile is the only place I’ve trusted it). It is one of the key problems throughout Central and South America and it is the reason I bought my Travel Tap microfilter
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Another of my obsessions when travelling is to tuck into any cheese platters I manage to come across. While this would cause massive issues to my health and waistline in some countries (Australia, France, etc), in Latin America cheese platters are actually reasonably rare. I’ve managed to find 3 so far in 5 months – the latest
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You don’t have to know me for too long before you come to realise how much I love icecream! I admit it – I’m an addict. So how does the icecream here in Central America stack up? Icecream in Nicaragua In Nicaragua, there are essentially two key ice-creameries. Eskimo – which are absolutely
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After finally leaving El Salvador, I decided to hang out in Antigua, Guatemala for about a week – partially because it is such a nice place and partially because I found a bunch of foodie things to do 🙂 First on the list was the Street Food walking tour with Arianna at Taste Antigua.
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In much of Latin America, the water out of the tap is not drinkable. In fact, the latest edition of Revue (Guatemala’s English-language magazine), features a story on a company that is trying to assist poorer families to have access to clean drinking water and to reduce the number of people who end up in hospital with parasites.
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Juayúa, one of the key towns along the Ruta de Flores, is famous for its weekend food festival that is held in and round the central park. For this reason, a whole bunch of us from the Casa Verde ended up descending on the town in order to eat our way through the culinary
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I was telling Carlos (the owner of the best hostel ever – Casa Verde) about my fascination with trying as many of the typical dishes of the country that I’m visiting, and rattled off the El Salvadorean food I’d eaten to date. I was missing some of the very common dishes so he invited me out for lunch so
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In addition to Carmen (pupusas) and Cecilia (desserts), on our gastronomy tour of Suchitoto, Luis from Sapito Tours also introduced me to Marcela in the central park who specialises in Atóles, and told me where to find Nuria later in the day for another snack, pastelitos, that is common in El Salvador. Atóles An Atól is
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