Comments on: 10 Things To Eat in Bogota

By: Carlito

Carlito — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:15:28 +0000

Guess what… Bandeja Paisa is neither from Medellín nor other city in Colombia. It was born on the road restaurants between Medellín and Cartagena and was created by truck and bus drivers. The history I know is that they stopped to eat on restaurants that had some sort of buffet (all you can eat kind) and they used to serve on a big plate the rice, the beans, chicharrón, etc and left the other options untouched, eventually the owners of those restaurants realised that it would be cheaper to offer the classical construction today know as bandeja paisa instead of several other options. Of course this is one of many legends around it but it makes perfect sense to me.

By: Aramis

Aramis — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:11:59 +0000

It’s NOT a beaver! Not at all. More like a giant guinea pig. Even genetically they’re really close I think.

By: Angelica

Angelica — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:05:21 +0000

TOTALLY agree with Pamir

By: Matthew Neuzil

Matthew Neuzil — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:32:44 +0000

the is no love more sincere than the love of food – George Bernard Shaw

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:52:48 +0000

Ok .. its official (for me anyways).. your entries are getting BORING! What happened to the good old stuff? Sex, Booze, women…? For some reason when I read this entry..you reminded me of Martha Stewart. Not good!

Not complaining about your writing, but your choice of material.

By: Pamir

Pamir — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:41:10 +0000

Hey boy!!! u makes me hungry with the pics of the food. I’m here still eating the same simpe things of every day. But I have something to day about the yuca, the panela and arepas…
1. Yuca, u are right, it’s very hard and flavourless, but the trick is in the way like u cook it , I mean salsa or “guiso that” u add to give flavour. Also the time on stove. Anpther thing, it’s to know well how to select the yuca in the supermarket. Personally Im very stupid for that…

2. Panela, I love it! coz i can use it for different purposes: drink, eat, make syrups, as ingredients for deserts, sweetener instead of sugar. Even when I was child, I used eat it as a candy…

3. Arepa, the base of the Colombian food… I love it coz I can combine with every thing, even I can replace rice or potatoe in my lunch with an arepa. Fortunately, here in AU I can get the flour to make them, the only terrible is the local cheese. Anything can replace the “queso campesino” and the “cuajada”