SAYINGS 'EL QUE POR SU GUSTO MUERE AUNQUE LO ENTIERREN PARADO'
This saying says the one that does something by its own will, will do it an keep on even if that involves thing that are apparently not favorable.The one that dies out of his or her own will, will do even if he or she is buried standing up.I keep thinking about this on our move to Guatemala. There are many

QUE LECHE!!
Ever since I have been back in my element, expressions I have not used for so long have been coming out of my mouth, one of them being QUE LECHE!.Que leche would literally mean What milk! but the idiomatic meaning is What luck! or Que mala leche! What bad luck!

GETTING READY FOR FIAMBRE
This is the week of anticipation to the Day of the Dead, November 1st and one of the most waited upon dishes of people in Guatemala City.I have often compared the "1ero de Noviembre" to Thanksgiving in the sense of family thinking of ancestors around a wonderful meal.I will blog more about the dish and the day but for now I leave you with the big display of the meats being sold for the fiambre, which a lot of them can only be found during these time.

Z is for ZAPOTE
Zapote is spelled with Z in Central America and with S in Mexico and South America. I am glad because I wanted to blog about something more interesting than zanahoria when I got to Z.The Zapote texture is like cutting into a refrigerated pumpkin pie. The text

I IS FOR INJERTO
INJERTO is the name of a fruit that is the 'injerto' (graft) of a chico and a zapote. It has the shape of the zapote at about the s