Well, food is always an important element of a culture so I thought I would add some photos of common meals here in El Salvador. Most are from my training home. Meals in the campo (country side) or cantons tend to be a lot less and with less variety. Nearly every meal I had in my first site was tortillas, beans and a fried egg with a ton of salt. It is amazing to see that all the food comes strait from the fields or animals. The corn is grown in the fields and then ground up by the family and made into tortillas. The beans are taken in from the field directly and of course eggs are taken from the chickens that are always inside or outside of the house. Any meat is from the livestock that is at the house. My first site house had: pigs, chickens, ducks, cows as livestock and we would spend a fair amount of time keeping them out of the house or my bedroom. Often the pigs would come in and steel a corncob from the stack ready to be prepared for tortillas and run out of the house in a game of chase. It was always quite amusing.
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