Arepas: A Pre-Columbian Culinary Staple of Venezuela

A constant in local diets

Arepas are one of Venezuela’s most enduring foods, a culinary tradition with roots that stretch back to pre-Columbian times when indigenous peoples across northern South America cultivated and processed maize as a dietary staple. Archaeological and linguistic evidence suggests that early forms of the arepa were prepared by indigenous communities who ground maize, shaped it […]