Comida Nica
People often ask me what Nicaraguan food is like. My immediate response is usually “It’s not very pretty…” But I’ve changed my mind. I got together with the very talented photographer Kristin Teig and came up with these images—Nica food cleans up nice!
From top left:
- Gallopinto (rice-and-beans), corn tortillas, and cheese on banana leaf background.
- Chicharrón con yuca—popular Nicaraguan street food served on banana leaf and eaten sans utensils: boiled yuca, pork cracklings, and vinegar-y cabbage slaw.
- Coca-Cola—in a bottle, and in a plastic baggie, as it is sometimes served (you can’t walk off with the bottles because they’ll be picked up and refilled at the Coca-Cola factory!).
- Hojuelas: fried discs of dough drenched in simple syrup.
- Mango “seleque” —we add a generous pinch of coarse salt to tart mango.
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December 10th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
I fell in love with Nicaraguan food–and Maria’s foodie recommendations on what to eat while I was there–on my honeymoon to Granada. If only I could find these delicious Nica foods in New York! Maria, please do more stories on Nicaraguan food!
June 13th, 2012 at 12:13 am
Lo he probado y está decilicios, GRACIAS!!!