#food preparation

• Garlic-seasoning — The act of garlic-seasoning and its result; a rustic and traditional culinary process specific to certain rural hearths, consisting of heavily seasoning, rubbing, or preserving meat, fish, or vegetable dishes with a massive amount of crushed garlic sauce. The term also carries an old ethnobotanical and medical-empirical connotation, defining the microscopic operation of rubbing or frictioning the skin with alliaceous juice for disinfecting purposes or as a ritual protection of the homestead against malevolent spirits.
• Arepa — A traditional culinary dish shaped like a round, flattened, baked patty, structurally made from a dough based on precooked cornmeal, water, and salt, originating from the northern regions of South America (Colombia and Venezuela). In a gastronomic sense, the arepa is a versatile staple food consumed plain or sliced open transversely to be stuffed with various ingredients such as cheese, shredded meat, avocado, black beans, or eggs.