Food

I am having trouble thinking of a little anecdote for today´s blog. So I´ll follow the advise of my hungry stomach, who is telling me to just talk about food.
I eat six days a week with my host family. The meals are ¨typical¨ Guatemalan food maybe three fifths of the time. Esperanza also makes pancakes and spaghetti and stuff like that. More Guatemalan are the tortillas we have every day at noon (Not tortillas like you might be thinking. They are smaller and thicker than what you buy in a Grand Forks grocery store, and always warmed.) and black beans every day at supper. Guatemalan food, you might be surprised to know, is not the same as Mexican food, especially Americanized Mexican food. There are differences, and I have yet to be served a burrito or anything like a Taco John´s taco. My favorite things to eat here are guacamole (Didn´t love this before I came here. Now, the mere thought of it brings a happy tear to my eye and a hungry drool to my mouth.), plantains (Esperanza makes these two ways--fried or cooked in sugar/water/cinnamon/vanilla. I am planning on attempting to cook them the tastier way--sugar water way--when I get home.) and of course the fresh pineapple.
Around Antigua you can get all kinds of ethnic food because it´s a pretty tourist-y place, and most restaurants are pretty cheap. I have enjoyed the billion bakeries they have in town, practically one on every block. Guatemalans know how to make $0.12 sugar cookies like no one else.
Wow. How did blogging about food seem like the thing to do when I was already hungry? I´ll be done now. Sugar cookies of Antigua, look out.