Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain, in Medellin, Colombia, prepares several types of arepas, Sept. 27, 2024. Colombia and Venezuela claim the cornbread as their own, but where ...

I have a lifelong relationship with arepas: I was born and raised in Venezuela, where arepas are not just a nutritious and comforting dish, but also one of the most important culinary legacies of the ...

“You just healed my hand with an arepa con queso,” Mirabel Madrigal tells her mother, Julieta, in the movie “Encanto,” while holding a cheesy arepa – a round corn cake. “I healed your hand with love,” ...

A new arepa spot is now open in Brooklyn after getting its start as a moveable feast with family techniques. The Maiz Project, which began as a pop-up operation, now has a brick-and-mortar outpost at ...

Arepas are corn cakes that are primarily eaten in Colombia and Venezuela as meals, accompaniments to meals, or snacks, but they have been part of South American culinary life since pre-Columbian times ...

I ended up walking straight into a pole. One of those metal ones that hold up the awnings along 9th Street. Never even saw it. I was leaning in for a bite, holding half an arepa in wax paper, and one ...