Bogotá food tour – The ancestral arepa
If you’ve ever taken a Bogotá food tour, you know every ingredient carries an ancient story. What would become of this corn before becoming an arepa?
If you’ve ever taken a Bogotá food tour, you know every ingredient carries an ancient story.
What would become of this corn before becoming an arepa?
Maybe it was lost in a field of thousands of cobs that, like him, had no clear future.
It was caught between becoming food for the birds that arrived furtively every morning when the farmer looked away…
or fulfilling the dream of becoming a Colombian arepa.
Baked or grilled, it didn’t matter.
What mattered was leaving the village and reaching the table of a restaurant in Bogotá.
There, it would be an honor to be boiled to soften, then shelled and ground, until forming that warm, perfect dough that smells like home.
An ancestral arepa, born long before the days of Gran Colombia.
The same one served on tables every morning, the one that has watched all Colombians change.
An immortal and eternal dough that, from those ancient times until today, has connected generation after generation with the sacred land.
During any Bogotá food tour, the arepa is not just food—it is living memory.
By Fredy Calderón
Video about Bogotá’s gastronomy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9O6alRYhs
Recommended food experience:
https://thetruecolombianexperience.com/product/bogota-food-experience/
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