Thanks to all who played our Tumbaco Quiz! You can all have an internet chócale! You can have one even if you DIDN'T play!! Here are the answers and some explanations:
1. What does "¡Chócale!" mean?
a. chocolate!
b. a million dollars!
c. a new kitty!
->d. high five!
e. SLANDER! err.. libel?
f. pie in the face!
In Spanish, chocar means "to crash." So don't take "chócale" literally... They use the phrase for high fives, fist bumps, and whatever other faddish alternatives to handshaking there might be.
2. What is the Chaquiñan AND which language does it come from AND what does it mean in that language?
The Chaquiñan is a foot and bike path that runs through Tumbaco. The word comes from Kichwa (which used to be spelled Quichua), one of the indigenous languages here in Ecuador, and it means "path."
3. What is the name of the traditional Ecuadorian dish eaten during Holy Week AND what is the recipe?
Fanesca. It's a dish of twelve "granos"--seeds or beans--that represent the twelve months and/or the twelve apostles. Here's the basic ingredients:
The granos (that seem to change from place to place and person to person--these ones are in most recipes):
Choclo (corn kernels)
Quínua (a grain)
Chochos (giant lupine seeds)
Haba (also known as fava bean)
Arveja (peas)
Lenteja (lentils)
Maní (peanuts)
Fréjol (kidney bean)
Rice
Zambo (fig leaf gourd)
Zapallo (squash)
Melloco (kind of like a potato except it isn't)
Things that are in most other Ecuadorian soups:
Garlic
Onions
Oil
Salt
And also salted fish:
We didn't like the salted fish very much. Some people eat their fanesca with empanadas--we are going to find them and be their friends next Holy Week. If you make us empanadas, you can be our friends, too!
..Kirstie and Isaac..
1. What does "¡Chócale!" mean?
a. chocolate!
b. a million dollars!
c. a new kitty!
->d. high five!
e. SLANDER! err.. libel?
f. pie in the face!
In Spanish, chocar means "to crash." So don't take "chócale" literally... They use the phrase for high fives, fist bumps, and whatever other faddish alternatives to handshaking there might be.
2. What is the Chaquiñan AND which language does it come from AND what does it mean in that language?
The Chaquiñan is a foot and bike path that runs through Tumbaco. The word comes from Kichwa (which used to be spelled Quichua), one of the indigenous languages here in Ecuador, and it means "path."
3. What is the name of the traditional Ecuadorian dish eaten during Holy Week AND what is the recipe?
Fanesca. It's a dish of twelve "granos"--seeds or beans--that represent the twelve months and/or the twelve apostles. Here's the basic ingredients:
The granos (that seem to change from place to place and person to person--these ones are in most recipes):
Choclo (corn kernels)
Quínua (a grain)
Chochos (giant lupine seeds)
Haba (also known as fava bean)
Arveja (peas)
Lenteja (lentils)
Maní (peanuts)
Fréjol (kidney bean)
Rice
Zambo (fig leaf gourd)
Zapallo (squash)
Melloco (kind of like a potato except it isn't)
Things that are in most other Ecuadorian soups:
Garlic
Onions
Oil
Salt
And also salted fish:
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| Salted fish at a meat market in Tumbaco, Ecuador. All ready to go into your fanesca! Photo by Kirstie Bickford. |
..Kirstie and Isaac..
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