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- Empanada de pollo<\/a>:\u00a0a pastry made of cornmeal and filled with spiced chicken, typically eaten in Costa Rica as a snack while having a (black!) coffee<\/li>\n
- Pat\u00ed<\/a>: similar to an empanada but stuffed with minced beef and available in three different levels of spiciness\u00a0\u2013 watch out for the red cross on the paper bag!<\/li>\n
- Vigor\u00f3n<\/a>: the typical Costa Rican picnic dish comes with yucca, tomato, cabbage and crispy pork crackling<\/li>\n
- Ceviche<\/a>: a fresh fish cocktail with lime juice, chili and cilantro<\/li>\n
- Arroz con pollo del Caribe<\/a>:\u00a0in contrast to the Costa Rican much-loved \u201cGallo Pinto\u201d (rice and beans) this meal is enriched with coconut milk. George serves it along with chicken, salad, fried plantain and a fruit juice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And\u00a0for those of you with a sweet tooth:<\/p>\n
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- Pan de yuca<\/a>,\u00a0zanahoria<\/a>\u00a0o\u00a0banano<\/a>:\u00a0a piece of delicious cake of yucca, carrot or banana – not too sweet and very moist\/mellow<\/li>\n
- Tamal<\/a>: there are three different types of \u201ctamales\u201d made from\u00a0cornmeal. George offers the sweet \u201cTamal asado\u201d which looks a bit like German cheese cake<\/li>\n
- Cocada<\/a>: a sun-shaped pastry from Jamaica with a sweet and spiced coconut stuffing<\/li>\n
- Arroz con leche<\/a>:\u00a0this cup of sweet rice pudding with cinnamon is one of the students’ favorites<\/li>\n
- Tresleches<\/a>: a typical Nicaraguan dessert brought to Costa Rica by the immigrants. The sponge cake is soaked with three types of milk and topped with a rich cream. Sometimes George adds strawberries or cacao to give this cake a special note.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u2026just to name a few!<\/p>\n
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\u201cEl Sabor, el Sabor!\u201d \u2013 This friendly shout fills Academia Tica\u2019s patio every school day at noon, when hungry students flock towards the sound of Caribbean music and the wide smile of Don George.\u00a0He emerges from a van and opens the\u00a0side door to\u00a0reveal\u00a0baskets\u00a0and coolers brimming with treats, which hungry students have been\u00a0yearning for throughout the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,19,33,31],"tags":[3,76,5,10,75],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-food","category-on-campus","category-student-life","tag-academiatica","tag-caribbean-food","tag-coronado","tag-oncampus","tag-susanna-kowalzik"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pati.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppNc8-45","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.academiatica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Tamal<\/a>: there are three different types of \u201ctamales\u201d made from\u00a0cornmeal. George offers the sweet \u201cTamal asado\u201d which looks a bit like German cheese cake<\/li>\n
- Pat\u00ed<\/a>: similar to an empanada but stuffed with minced beef and available in three different levels of spiciness\u00a0\u2013 watch out for the red cross on the paper bag!<\/li>\n