Market Drink · Corn And Cacao Cooler
Tiste
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Tiste is traditionally drunk from a jícara, a cup cut from the hard shell of the calabash-tree fruit, and it descends from pre-Hispanic drinks of toasted corn and cacao.
Toasted corn and cacao are ground together into a dry mix, then whisked with water and sugar over ice into a gritty, chocolatey cooler. It is ladled from big glass jars by market vendors in Granada's Mercado Municipal.
Why it's made this way: Granada sits in the heart of former Chorotega territory along Lake Cocibolca, and the drink remains most strongly rooted in the city's markets and Pacific lakeside towns.
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