{"id":11400,"date":"2026-01-25T14:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetruecolombianexperience.com\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:12:37","slug":"bogota-food-tour-the-secret-story-of-ajiaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruecolombianexperience.com\/es\/bogota-food-tour-the-secret-story-of-ajiaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogot\u00e1 food tour \u2013 The secret story of ajiaco"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve ever taken a Bogot\u00e1 food tour, you know that every dish hides a story. Spoonful after spoonful, the message began to reveal itself.
I didn\u2019t 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 their herd that very morning. Among them, a few still carried markings I managed to decipher, though they had almost faded away. Maybe they were easier for me to see because, when I was young, I was always passionate about archaeology and the study of inscriptions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They said they came from a small town near Bogot\u00e1, and that they had been brought to the restaurant in a truck earlier that morning. Many had been chosen\u2014brave and ready to fulfill their mission in life: to dodge other recipes and become the pride of their roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dream of every Colombian potato: to end up in a good ajiaco santafere\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it wasn\u2019t easy. You had to be almost perfect to catch the attention of the chef at the door. Otherwise, you could end your glorious life in a pot of hot oil, turned into French fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming an ajiaco potato was already an achievement. But being the potato of the Christmas Eve ajiaco\u2026 that was almost divine. On that day, people in Bogot\u00e1 cherish and enjoy this thick soup as if it were sacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potatoes from the Cundiboyacense highlands, from the time they were small, had a single purpose. They prepared for it. They competed in potato school to be round, firm, almost perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to read that they had a kind of underground university where, as they grew, they learned to capture the microorganisms of Colombia\u2019s black soil. That\u2019s how they absorbed the nutrients needed to become food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day they were pulled from the earth by the farmers of the cold lands was as glorious as the moment an athlete is chosen for the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming an ajiaco potato in Bogot\u00e1\u2026 was winning the gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soup was speaking to me. It was telling me its origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the table, the guide was explaining what ajiaco was, as if we were in the middle of a Bogot\u00e1 food tour, but I had my own narrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who better than the potato itself to tell me what ajiaco means to the people of Bogot\u00e1?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Fredy Calder\u00f3n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video about Bogot\u00e1\u2019s gastronomy:
https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VJ9O6alRYhs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended food experience:
https:\/\/thetruecolombianexperience.com\/product\/bogota-food-experience\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ajiaco<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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