GT Culture: Guatemalan Cuisine

If you are not a follower of our Forum, then you may not know that Guatemalan cuisine and recipes is one of our favorite topics. We are in hopes of putting together a Guatemalan cookbook to raise funds for our DO GOOD foundation, hopefully after the calendar we can start putting this major project together.
We will keep you posted. In the meanwhile, while cooking shows are all the rage here in the states, it too is in Guate. Below is a translated article from the newspaper. Those that know me well, know first hand how I wish I could be on this show! Enjoy and Buen provecho!
Marie, Guatadopt.com

Link: http://www.sigloxxi.com/noticias/23574
(see photo provided)

Touring the Guatemalan Kitchen

The new television program, The taste of my land, whose first installment will air on October 17, displays the gastronomic wealth of the country.

Carla Natareno, Siglo 21 | cnatareno@sigloxxi.com


The producer, a Guatemalan, Ana Carlos presents a new television program called "The Taste of My Homeland", where two Guatemalan chefs embark on a journey through the country to discover the secrets of culinary and gastronomic delights of each of the corners of Guatemala. The first transmission will reach the small screen this upcoming October 17.

This project, according to its producer, comes after presenting the series, "Snack of the Gods", which was broadcast in 2006, which showed the national cuisine. Ana Carlos thought, then take up the idea and make it reach the public in a different and entertaining.

In his head resonated the formula: Guatemalan food + chefs from different parts of the country + cooks + rescue kitchen secrets of cooking traditions = The taste of my land.

"This program is kind of a road movie, as they cook and travel to different parts of the country," said Carlos.

Mircini Molibiate and Eduardo Gonzalez are the chefs and presenter of the program, who travel throughout the country with the intention of discovering and learning to cook from gastronomic delights from every place they visit, with the help and instruction of the inhabitants of the region They share their culinary secrets and their ancestral recipes.

"I have learned many secrets that Guatemalans are unaware of the kitchen, and this program can be a contribution to rescue gastronomic traditions that are being lost," says Molibiate, while ensuring that viewers have fun with the different situations that she and her companion experienced in each program, already living with charismatic personalities and very special.

Creating a National Viewership
Breaking with the idea that the Guatemalans just like to see cable programming, is one of the goals that Ana Carlos has to do in this project. "People identify with national work. This production is so interesting and important as the production of any country, "he says.

With this program, its director also hopes to help keep alive the gastronomic culture of the country and demonstrate the great cultural wealth that is displayed at our table.

The taste of my land will have six chapters and the first will be seen on national television on October 17 on Channel 3, at eight o'clock in the evening. It will be broadcast again on Oct. 26, at ten o'clock, and Nov. 1 at two in the afternoon, on the same channel.

The following episodes can be seen during the months of December, February, April, June and August.
The series kicks off with the program in the east, which shows the preparation of dishes such as mojarra, quesadillas and chicken with loroco, as well as the development of chicharrones. Then, Guatemalans will learn from the hands of Molibiate and Gonzalez, preparing recipes from La Antigua Guatemala, Peten, Coban, Quetzaltenango and the Garifuna community.

In each of his trips, the two cooks will have to adapt to the different cooking utensils from each region, and their ways of cooking. They should use the comal, tusas, firewood and other unusual crafts in the schools of haute cuisine.