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Baleada Stand

Also known as Baleada · street tortilla cook

Baleada Stand: photograph by Inti Martínez Alemán
Photo: Inti Martínez Alemán, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Press and stretch flour-tortilla dough on a hot comal, fold it over beans, cheese and cream, and serve the queue before orders time out.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Honduras.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of The Americas: Mesoamerica.

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