Bolivia: Long Story Short About Food!

Hello everyone! A crucial part of Bolivian culture, and especially Cochabamba, is the uniquely delicious dishes!

Let's start with what you would eat for breakfast. Here, a breakfast of bread, milk, eggs, and fruit is common, with more or less variety. If you're dreaming of pancakes and bacon, you won't find any here! Fried pastries such as the buñuelo or the pastel de api (api cake) served with a thick, hot drink called api (made from purple corn) are a filling breakfast or snack.

Here's my grandmother Fidelia with a buñuelo! 

The purple drink on the bottom right is api. 

There are so many kinds of delicious bread here!

Let's move on to lunch and dinner! Lunch in Bolivia is always served with soup first, then the entrée, and finally fruit for dessert. The leftovers of lunch are eaten for dinner, either soup or entrée, but not both. The soups, like the bread, are varied and delicious! We've eaten quinoa soup, peanut soup, swiss chard soup, thick corn soup, creamy vegetable soup, and more! The entrées we eat usually include either tomato and onion salad, and rice or potatoes as a side. The potato is another varied topic in and of itself! If you walk through any market, you'll see them in all colors. Dried potatoes are either called chuño (black in color) or tunta (white in color). Last of all, we eat all kinds of fruit, from apples and oranges, to pineapple and watermelon!

My mom has often shopped at this market, where 

all they sell is fruit and veggies!

Peanut soup :)

Sausages, lamb, ribs, chicken, or beef are always found

in Bolivian entrées. 

Next, tea! Tea is drunk at four in the afternoon or later if you please. Oftentimes people invite others for tea here, instead of lunch or dinner. 

Last of all, here are some pictures of special Bolivian dishes!

Fricase, a spicy soup with pork, corn, chuño, and potato.

Pique macho, an amazing combo of sliced hotdog, fries, 

peppers, and eggs.

Chicharron, a dish of fried pork 

served with potato and corn. 

On the left, a wistupiku (a pastry filled with veggies, 

and meat of your choice or cheese). On the right, 

a salteña (basically a potpie in a turnover).

Cow's tongue!

Anticuchos, my favorite dish in Bolivia!! Anticuchos

is cow's heart. Yum! :)

Spicy rabbit. 

Duck on the left, silpancho on the right. Silpancho

is a dish known for its huge, circular, and flat piece of 

beef topped with an almost equally large egg. 

Hope you've enjoyed reading about Bolivian food! Adios for now!