The Slow Death of Zulian Cuisine
The shortage of ingredients, hyperinflation and forced migration has put this unique Venezuelan cuisine in danger.
The shortage of ingredients, hyperinflation and forced migration has put this unique Venezuelan cuisine in danger.
Each of the Venezuelan States has its own specific set of idiosyncrasies, their own very distinct way of communicating, eating, living and handling their affairs. Particular ghosts, monsters and creatures roam each region, as an army of dead that remind us of the violence, misery and dispair within each community.
In Western Venezuela, monsters, spirits and ghosts abound. Some of them roam our land to escape oblivion, keep trespassers at bay and communicate with the nature around them and protect it.
The inhabitants of Central Venezuela can’t escape the fits of rage of tortured souls that still roam and haunt the land, to punish wrongdoers or search for justice, atonement or vengeance.
Venezuelan land and waters are haunted by spirits, monsters and ghosts. Each one has preferences about what kind of victims it attacks and each can be placated or vanquished with a specific method. The Oriental belief system is rich, alive and well.
Chavismo tries to pay lip service to highbrow art with a heavily politicized week-long Picasso event where, in fact, the 149 pieces displayed were anything but political. How political can a blocky coffee pot be?
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