Making Guáyiga bread: freshly baked cholas from the oven

Guáyiga bread is one of the main foods of the indigenous peoples of the insular Caribbean. Despite colonization processes, the bread today survives in communities across the region, particularly in what we now call the Dominican Republic. Two of the communities where this culinary tradition persists—Yaguate and Guáyiga, in San Cristóbal and Santo Domingo Norte,...