{"id":1213,"date":"2018-05-24T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takeflyte.org\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2019-06-19T05:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:21:46","slug":"food-discoveries-an-introduction-to-guatemalan-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takeflyte.org\/food-discoveries-an-introduction-to-guatemalan-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Discoveries \u2013\u00a0an Introduction to Guatemalan Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
Only three weeks to go until Victor School takes FLYTE to Guatemala<\/a>! Emma, Sadie, and Summer are getting excited about all the Guatemalan food they’re going to eat during their time in the country. In today’s post, they discuss some of the highlights. Their appetites are ready for the journey!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Our taste buds are in for a surprise!<\/b><\/p>\n Breakfast in Guatemala sounds so good. Where we live we usually eat cereal, bagels, toast, or something that\u2019s quick and easy in our busy lives. In Guatemala, they eat fruits or cook a meal for breakfast, like eggs, tortillas, beans, or plantains, which a lot of people from our country are either not motivated to do or just don’t have the time to do.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In the United States, the normal food we eat when we are out on the town is usually from fast food chains or sit in bar and grill restaurant\/sports bars and restaurants. In Guatemala, they tend to have more locally supported restaurants. In our country, the menu to most sit in restaurants usually looks the same, including food such as hamburgers, chicken and steak dishes, pasta dishes, and some seafood meals. In Guatemala, they seem to use a lot more freshly grown vegetables in their dishes compared to American food. In Guatemala, they include a lot of corn, chilies, rice, and beans in many of their dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Some Guatemalan meals include turkey soup, stuffed peppers, grilled corn, spicy fish soup, stew with chicken, beef, or pork, corn tamales, guacamole, and tamales – corn pastries filled with meat and potatoes. Most of our drinks include tea, coffee, soda, lemonades, beer and other alcoholic drinks. In Guatemala, they often serve a variety of fruit juices, coffee, beer and their famous rum. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A common Guatemalan dessert is tres leches cake which is a cake soaked in three different kinds of milk. Another popular dessert is cupcakes like Guatemalan chocolate cupcakes, horchata cupcakes, even caramelized banana cupcakes with cinnamon whipped cream. Guatemalans love their pl\u00e1tanos (bananas) you can find them in a lot of the desserts. <\/span><\/p>\n