What+kinds+of+foods+are+native+to+Columbia?

What kinds of foods are native to Columbia?

In "The Old Man with Enormous Wings", Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a very poor couple who barely make enough money to scrape by. Pelayo is a fisherman and Elisenda wrecks her back sweeping floors in the village marketplace. All of this changes when a very human-looking angel falls from the sky and lands in their courtyard. By locking up the angel and charging visitors to gawk at him, Pelayo and Elisenda make enough money to buy their way out of poverty and into a very nice two-story house. Initially, the villagers try to feed the angel all sorts of odd things such as peanuts, fruit peels, and even mothballs. It turns out, however, that the only food he will eat is eggplant mush.


 * Eggplant Mush**

Native Columbian food consists mainly of chicken, corn, potato, and pork. Some of the most popular native dishes are Ajiaco, which is a "traditional Andean dish that originated from Bogotá. It is a chicken, corn, and potato stew with a hint of [|guasca] , a local herb" ( [] ), and Sancocho, which is a "traditional dish that originated in the north coast. It is made with any kind of meat along with [|corn] , [|potato] , [|yuca] , [|plantain]  and local spices that are cooked together to form a [|soup] " (1). Because Columbia has a coastline on the Carribean, foods that come from the sea are also common. Fish such as red snapper are fried and served along side plantains, coconuts, and rice. Finally, there are also some dishes made of insects, mostly from the native peoples of Columbia - roasted ants and ant sauce! Unfortunately, because so many ants are being eaten, they are now at risk of becoming extinct ([]).


 * Roasted Male Ants**

Being one of the most famous coffee producing countries in the world, Columbia has a very long history of coffee drinking among its peoples. Oddly enough, however, coffee in Columbia is usually of very low quality. The kind that most people buy on the streets for about 20 cents ( [] ) is usually weak and low on flavor. This is because the best beans are sold and shipped to other countries. Today, Columbians are trying to make coffee more of a national drink.


 * Columbian Coffee Grower Family**