BAY CITY, MI – Making the move to Michigan from Miami is bound to show a difference in food options. Michelle and Christopher Gonzalez experienced exactly this and were craving a Colombian favorite ...

I was lucky enough to have been born in Colombia, so my mornings have always started with a hot, comforting arepa. These round corn or flour "patties" are a staple food of both Colombia and Venezuela, ...

A well-made arepa may be more comforting than a plate of warm cookies or your mother’s meatloaf. Really, these compact disc-sized corn pockets should replace ice cream as the official breakup food.

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Along Sepulveda Boulevard ...

In Colombian and Venezuelan cuisine—two food cultures rich with hearty, rib-sticking comfort fare—arepas play the role of the American buttermilk biscuit, only more versatile. The disc-shaped corn ...

“You just healed my hand with an arepa con queso,” Mirabel Madrigal tells her mother, Julieta, in the movie “Encanto,” while holding a cheesy arepa — a round corn cake. “I healed your hand with love,” ...

Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain, in Medellin, Colombia, prepares several types of arepas, Sept. 27, 2024. Colombia and Venezuela claim the cornbread as their own, but where ...

MEDELLÍN, Colombia — A heated and long-standing rivalry simmers between neighbors Colombia and Venezuela — not over politics, migration or even soccer, but over the humble arepa. The round cornbread ...

I arrived to Colombia after spending five weeks in Belize, during which I largely subsisted on red beans. While I love red beans and appreciate their ability to keep me energized and alive in the ...

Food can shed a great deal of light on a place's culture, and the arepa is no exception. It's an iconic South American street food that has countless preparation methods, and each has its own story.

I relished eating a Colombian arepa for the first time ever at Latino Bar & Grill in Green. The South American arepa, handmade at the restaurant with cornmeal, is considerably thicker than the usual ...