Category: Food

Colombia is a tropical land with a great variety of fruit growing in the wild, in people’s gardens and in farms. Some you may be familiar with, others will be mysterious to you. Let’s look at a few in this first installment […]

Colombians love their sugar cane! Panela is unrefined sugar cane juice (most of the water will be boiled off) compacted into a puck or brick, or chopped up into a coarse sugar. Guarapo is raw pressed sugar cane juice mixed with lime juice whilst aguapanela is rehydrated […]

Colombians love arepas, no doubt about it! You’ll find them as a side with just about any meal, and sometimes it’s the main course! Often referred to in English as corn cakes but they’re actually not all made of corn. Many gringos don’t like […]

Colombia is a country with an abundance of fruits, many of which people from Gringolandia have never seen. May I present to you the pitahaya. Pitahaya sounds like Peet-ah-yah, BTW. Also known as dragon fruit. Often it’s sold with a bit of the branch on top, […]

A very popular drink here is avena, which is the same word used for oatmeal but here if someone offering you una avena, they mean the drink! It’s composed of oats, milk, water, sugar or honey and cinnamon and sometimes nutmeg. This is mixed together […]

Colombians know how to use their bananas! Sweet or not, big or small, they use them in a hundred different ways! Personally, I shamefully admit I had no idea how useful bananas are! Some expats and tourists make light of the omnipresent […]