After plucking out the feathers of the chicken, they have to put it over a fire to make sure all the feather pieces come out
They eat all the chicken here - even the liver and things
My host grandfather picking a fruit here called guava (not what we think of as guava in the U.S., see below)
This is what they called guava here - the black things are the seeds, and the white things next to the seeds are the seeds with the pulp around them . You suck the white part off and eat it, and spit out the black seed.
Mangoes!
grated coconut
Maranon cruzado - it's a fruit that tastes roses
This is called changa - it's made from newly-harvested corn. They blend it up and put it in a banana leaf and put it over the fire (left). It comes out looking like the one on the right.
On the left is the grind up corn and on the right are corn husks filled with that mixture. They boil it and eat it.
These are hojaldres - basically fried bread
Taking dried corn off the cob - they then feed it to chickens or make it into a tortilla
Passionfruit
pixfae - it's a fruit from a palm tree that is boiled with salt and eaten.
This is how they pick pixfae from the palm tree - they use a long stick with a hook at the end and try to catch it with a big tarp
Four different types of bananas
Peeling coffee with a heavy stick - they mash the dried coffee beans until the peels come off and all that is left is the bean that they then roast.
