My Family, my Inspiration: Culture, and Traditions

Introduction

I am from El Salvador, and all my family lives back home. It is an extended family, both parents, three brothers, and one sister.

Cultural Celebrations and Identity

To me, my family is my everything, and every single they, we communicate with each other since we have a close relationship. I will be describing our gastronomy and traditions. Since our childhood, the relationship with our parents has been very important, and it doesn’t matter where everybody the, communication is still there.

Gastronomy. The most famous traditional dish in our country is pupusas. This is not only a tradition in my family but also for the whole country, and this dish can be found in breakfast, lunch, or supper.

The pupusas are a kind of corn tortilla and are made by hand, and they can either be corn or rice dough. This is filled with one or more of the following ingredients: cheese, pork, beans, and loroco (eatable flower). Pupusa is fried and served with cabbage and tomato salsa. The tradition is to eat them when they are hot without a fork and only the finders. In the same way, Salvadorans often eat various dishes made from corn, such as corn tamales, atole, and corn coffee. The holly week traditions in El Salvador. Between the months of March and April, according to the calendar date of each year, Catholics celebrate Holy Week or Weekly Major. A few weeks before (40 days before Palm Sunday) commemorated Ash Wednesday, which symbolizes the first day of Lent. Catholics attend the church, and the priest imposes a cross of ashes on their foreheads.

Throughout the Holy Week, carpets made of sawdust or salt are made to represent different passages of the Bible. Every family in the village made their own to represent what they were grateful for. Food is also part of the traditions. Typical dishes are prepared, such as fish cakes (dried fish wrapped in eggs) and torrejas (bread with yolk cake dipped in honey or traditional sugar cane). Sweets of different fruits, such as mangos and jocotes (Spondiaspurpurea). The traditional fireballs. It consists of groups of young people throwing balls made of cloth, tied with wire, and bathed with gas or gasoline. This is set on fire, and the celebration begins.

Conclusion

There are many versions of the origin of this tradition that takes place at dawn on September 1. It refers to the eruption of the San Salvador volcano. These are the two popular stories that some residents relate to the celebration, but this is the most common.

References

1. Paredes, J. (2017). Traditional Salvadoran Gastronomy: Pupusas, Tamales, and More. University of Central Florida, Rosen College of Hospitality Management. Retrieved from https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/442/

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