Food is a big deal in Paraguay during Easter week. There are traditions asociated with this week that are stronger than the North American tradition of Turkey at Thanksgiving.
This is the one week of the year where the tatakuá is used to cook. The tatakuá is a brick/clay oven in which wood (they say mandarin branches are the best) is burned to heat up the oven. After about one hour the coals are removed and the food is put in to bake.
The traditional foods baked in a tatakuá are chipa (a corn meal/mandioca starch cheese bread), sopa (basically a dense corn bread), and meat (either beef or pork). I want to try making pizza in one.
Everyone makes chipa and sopa and brings it to their neighbours. We got more than we could eat but that's ok with me.
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