Millions fleeing Venezuela are taking their troubled homeland's most ubiquitous dish with them: Arepas. Humble street stalls and restaurants are serving the white corn flour patties in Colombia and in cities around the world.
In this June 11, 2019 photo, a food server shows a Venezuelan arepa made with Colombian ingredients at the "Arepas Cafe" fast food restaurant in Bogota, Colombia. Venezuelans like to jest that their beloved arepas are so widely consumed that babies come out of the womb with the corn flatbreads already in hand. Now, as millions flee their homeland's turmoil, they are taking Venezuela's most ubiquitous dish with them.
“For us, the arepa represents Venezuela,” says Alejandra Castro, who opened an arepa business in Buenos Aires, Argentina over a year ago. “It’s our culture, our daily bread. What one misses and longs for the most is an arepa.” “So there are all manners of adaptations people make to balance those two, kind of contradicting desires,” he said.
Empresas Polar, Venezuela’s largest private food supplier, said in its most recent financial report that it received just over half of the required amount of raw corn product needed to maintain production levels of its gold standard corn flour. More recently, the so-called CLAP boxes to Venezuela’s poor came with actual kernels of corn instead of corn flour, sparking a wave of outrage.
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