Arepas Are Conquering The World – But Dying At Home In Venezuela
For Venezuelans, the stuffed corn-meal cakes have long been the daily bread of life. Yet even as arepas are embraced from New York to Barcelona, they are disappearing in their hunger-wracked homeland.
The last three months have been bad for Venezuela – some of the worst months in a string of bad months, the worst year in a string of bad years. Violent confrontations between government forces and protesters have left dozens dead in the streets. Families are scavenging scraps of food from trash bags. But there's one silver lining: The arepa, the sine qua non of Venezuelan foods, the give-us-now-our-daily-bread for Venezuelans, has finally made it big — but only outside the nation's borders.
Venezuelans eat a lot of arepas. The tasty corn-meal cakes — grilled, baked or fried and filled with everything from avocado to braised meat to quail egg salad
