Cooking and eating in a foreign country may be the best way to understand a lot about its culture, its customs and its people. Cachupa is a slow-cooked corn (hominy) and bean stew, made with vegetables (plantains, sweet potatoes, squash, and yams), meat (marinated pork, chorizo sausages, or tuna), and spices (bay leaves, garlic, and pimento). It is the perfect “poor man’s dish” – inexpensive, filling, and packed with protein. Cachupa has its own regional variation.
