Today is another great day. I awoke and was quickly showed by the maid (A wonderful woman, like a small Tican Alice) that she had made tamales and gallo pinto for breakfast. Dani was sick last night so we were not going to the hotel.
Now I must admit, I was sceptical of the tamale. It was wrapped in a huge banana leaf and I wasn't even sure of what was cook inside. But let me tell you, it was awesome, albeit different. There was carrot, garbanzo beans, peppers, rice and I think pork.
I was moved to remember the time Mary Etta told me about how her French nanny, Anne Marie, had made quiche with any and all leftover foods. As I dug dipper and found perhaps a pea? a lentil? I began thinking that these tamales could be the Costa Rican version of just that.
I went for a 2 hour hike, came back drenched in humid sweat and considered these things further as I ate another for lunch.
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