Bogotá food tour – The ancestral story of the arepa

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 […]

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Bogotá food tour – The secret story of ajiaco

If you’ve ever taken a Bogotá food tour, you know that every dish hides a story. Spoonful after spoonful, the message began to reveal itself.I didn’t know if the others were having the same experience.The potatoes had something written on them. It was barely visible, but it said they had been grown and separated from […]

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Who Was the First?

Who Was the First? By: Fredy Calderón I asked myself: “How was it possible? Who could have been the first person to even think: look, if we pull this root out of the ground, peel it, boil it, mash it with salt, shape it into a ball, flatten it… and just like that, however each […]

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The Battle of the Soups

“How can you even believe that?” Juan said with an ironic smile. “How could sancocho ever be better than ajiaco?” Alejandra shot back with a playful, almost familiar shout: “Of course it is!” They were walking along Seventh Avenue toward Plaza de Bolívar. With all the noise around them, it was hard to hear each […]

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THE DAY I MET MARÍA TOMASA ON THE WALKING BOGOTA CITY TOUR

It was raining and raining without respite, we had walked only a few blocks when the torrential downpour fell upon us without warning; the guide immediately told us that any self-respecting Bogota citizen should always carry an umbrella in his or her bag or backpack; she asked us if we had brought an umbrella and […]

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