Aside from the Refugee Team, the Palestinian squad will be the only one at the Paris 2024 Olympics with the majority of its athletes living outside their home country.
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Guatemala has a rich edible history that involves Indigenous foodways, colonial invasions, and recent immigrant arrivals. But its culinary culture has long been overlooked on the global stage. In the past decade, though, new fine-dining restaurants, including Flor De Lis, Diacá, and Sublime, have garnered international acclaim with glitzy experiences the country hadn't seen before. Now a fresh generation of chefs is establishing a modern Guatemalan cuisine by extolling native techniques and elevating humble home cooking while incorporating the flavors of various diasporas.
Mee goreng noodles at Toi Doi in Guatemala City
The Santa Catalina Arch in Antigua, Guatemala
The movement launched in 2014 with the opening of Mercado 24, which took inspiration from the 23 municipal markets that keep home kitchens in Guatemala City stocked. Other restaurants have followed suit in celebrating local produce. A diner at Ana might be served an heirloom tomato with black salt from the town of Sacapulas; chayote, a gourdlike vegetable, comes adorned with foie gras, macadamia nuts, and epazote. “I believe that cooking and food are powerful ways to connect with the earth and its cycles,” says Ana chef Nicolás Solanilla. “We respect nature in every dish we create.”
The wealth of Guatemalan ingredients is also on display at Nanik (the Mayan word for “abundance”), chef Fernando Solís's restaurant in Antigua. His cooking, he says, is informed by “the country's microclimates, our proximity to a diversity of lakes and oceans, and different animal proteins from specialized farms,” as well as “the varied traditions and cultures that make our gastronomy rich.” Here you'll find menu items like a squash blossom tamale; a quesadilla-like dish called a doblada de queso de tusa huehueteco, made with chicharron and pepián sauce; and a dizzying array of experiments with maize, including caramelized corn on the cob with burnt tortilla and ash.
Fernando Solís, the chef-owner of Nanik in Antigua
Chiles in a Santiago Atitlán market
Like Solís, anthropologist turned restaurateur María Jacinta Xón has sought to manifest aspects of Guatemala's history in the plates she serves at Proyecto Tux, in Chichicastenango. Before turning to food, she studied forms of creativity that have emerged from spaces where Indigenous women found ways to resist oppression, including kitchens. Her seasonal tasting menus explore this dynamic with dishes like boxboles, flowers in a cornmeal sauce with lime and achiote. The restaurant also seeks to preserve recipes that existed before chemical fertilizers, monoculture crops, and the seizure of Indigenous lands.
Nana, another of Antigua's standout restaurants (which—surprise!—houses a vintage shop too), utilizes
Aside from the Refugee Team, the Palestinian squad will be the only one at the Paris 2024 Olympics with the majority of its athletes living outside their home country.
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