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Diosas De La Comida

A Poem About the Importance of Food to Hispanic Culture

By Brianna HernandezPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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I’m channeling my inner latinx, and committing to my ancestral roots

the only problem is every type of food I’m making is going straight to my glutes.

Manteca, & flour addicted abuelas, cooking tortillas that are so perfect in diameter you would have thought they used a compass

but watch this, their bare hands knead the masa into submission and their crafty hands create beautiful flying disks, handing it to you warm & soft

add some I can’t believe it’s not butter & watch it go straight to your hips.

chile con carne, queso in every meal, flipping the tortillas on the comal without burning yourself; an acquired skill.

Yet, cooking runs deep in our veins as us & the spices dance with no shame,

Hispanic women, we are the flame.

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