Angelica Urrego, owner of Arepa Babe in Phoenix, started cooking Colombian food to reconnect with her roots, heal her soul, and represent her culture. At her stand at the Downtown Phoenix Farmers ...

“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,” ...

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — Are arepas Venezuelan or Colombian? The origins of this pre-Columbian dish are not limited by borders. Instead, they’re enriched by flavor. Arepas’ history dates back before ...

Both countries claim the cornbread as their own. But where does it really come from? And who makes it better? Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain in Medellín, Colombia, ...

If one travels to Colombia, it is most likely that between 3 and 6 pm that one will be invited to eat “something.” Being served a combination of coffee or hot chocolate along with a wide variety of ...

We’ve covered plenty on cuisines on Dining on a Dime, from Indonesian to Honduran and everything in between. But not until this Miami episode am I getting around to trying Colombian food — strange, ...

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 ...

MEDELLÍN, Colombia — A heated and long-standing rivalry simmers between neighbors Colombia and Venezuela — not over politics, migration or even soccer, but over the humble arepa. The round cornbread ...