<div> Exhaustively illustrating Colombia&rsquo;s coffee culture, this informative chronicle extensively documents coffee as an entity. The entire creation processfrom the cultivation and collection of the coffee beans to the final preparationsis explored, as are the diverse zones where coffee is grown. Additionally, coffee&rsquo;s history in Colombia and around the world, the different meanings of special coffees, and the importance of coffee shops as social venues are considered. This rich discussion also provides various recipes for coffee beverages and complementary food. <div>Ampliamente ilustrandando la cultura cafetera de Colombia, esta crónica informativa extensivamente relata el café como una entidad. Se explora el proceso entero de creacióndesde el cultivo y la recolección de los granos de café hasta las preparaciones finalesasí como las zonas diversas en donde se cultiva el café. Adicionalmente, se considera la historia del café en Colombia y alrededor del mundo, lo que significan los cafés especiales, y la importancia de las cafeterías como lugares de encuentro social. Esta discusión profunda también presenta los tipos de preparación clásica en bebidas y recetas.</div> </div>

Cafes de Colombia (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Villegas, Liliana

Photography & Video

Villegas Editores

With its tropical climate, coasts on two oceans, high mountains, and dense jungles, Colombia produces or is capable of producing almost every variety of fruit. Given the trend toward healthier and leaner cuisine, fruit is a timely culinary subject. This volume rescues the best of culinary knowledge of the most exquisite, exotic tropical fruits, and opens the door to healthy, marvelous gastronomic experiences. With historical and cultural information on thirty-two different fruits that are produced in Colombia, their main varieties, uses, interesting trivia and medicinal and beauty tips, this book opens the door to a world of food that is increasingly available in this country and that is immediately familiar to anyone who has lived in or visited the tropics.

Deliciosas Frutas Tropicales (Spanish Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

This is the first cooking book published by Villegas Editores. It is, just like its protagonists, an exquisite and sweet culinary sample taken from some of the most illustrious tropical children: fruits. Diverse and succulent, fruits do not only enrich a vast and delightful recipe book rich in flavours, vitamins and minerals, but also embody a diverse arsenal of medical benefits, unknown to the regular consumer. The pages of "Delicious Tropical Fruits" include a detailed history on the origin and the practical uses of each fruit, from avocado to zapote. In addition, they introduce the reader to an exquisite array of easy and delicious recipes created around these natural gifts, which are cultivated across the Colombian territory, where the versatile weather diversity offers a wide range of textures, flavours and shapes to suit every taste. Written by Liliana Villegas, the book is not only a delight for taste but also an invitation to know a long and sweet tradition that is part of Colombia’s culinary history. Furthermore, through time, this tradition has delighted, more and more, the most demanding palates of the world with its immensity of colours, scents and flavours.

Delicious Tropical Fruit (Cultura Del Cafe, 3.)

Bringing together more than 500 years of creativity with images of multiple artifacts made from different materials—including wood, clay, metals, fibers, stone, leather, and seeds—this book brings Colombia's immensely rich history of crafts to life. Because of its privileged geographic location, natural wealth, and variety of climates and ethnicities in which millenary migratory currents meet more recent European and African waves, Colombia's crafts are known for their unique look and style. These symbolic examples of nationality, representative of the continental region to which they belong, are a testimony to the rich artisan culture that exists in Colombia. Incluyendo más de 500 años de creatividad con imágenes de múltiples artefactos de diferentes materiales como la madera, el barro, los metales, las fibras, la piedra, el cuero y las semillas, este libro cuenta la rica historia del mundo artesanal colombiano. Gracias a su privilegiada posición geográfica, su riqueza natural, su variedad climática y su diversidad étnica, en la que conviven y se funden corrientes migratorias milenarias con mestizajes europeos y africanos más recientes, la artesanía colombiana es conocida por su singularidad y estilo. Estos ejemplos simbólicos de la nacionalidad, representativos de la región continental de la que forman parte, dan testimonio de la sólida cultura artesanal colombiana.

Artefactos: Objetos artesanales de Colombia (Spanish Edition)

Villegas, Benjamin

History & Criticism

The artifacts that remain today from ancient Columbian civilizations reveal a remarkable people-who built homes that could withstand the elements in the world's wettest rain forest, carved monumental statues of their ancient ancestors and sacred spirits, and tantalized the western world with the beauty of their golden objects set with the finest emeralds. These artifacts serve not only as a testimony of the great achievements of cultures that disappeared long ago, but as patterns and inspirations for those who still carry on these craft traditions in the tropical rain forests or snow-capped mountains of what is today Columbia. This book presents artifacts—or artefactos—from everyday life, objects that have accompanied Columbian people through the centuries, both in their earthly and spiritual activities. In both English and Spanish, the word artifact means, literally, "made with skill or art." Although all worthy of museums and galleries, these are not just exhibition pieces, nor are their makers all members of a separate artisan class. There is no Columbian home, however humble, that does not have a handmade broom, stool, basket, textile, or rustic furniture; nor is there a single Amazon Indian who cannot quickly piece together a basket from leaves found in the jungle. Many of the crafts made today still retain a significance beyond the strictly utilitarian, from the basket holder whose hourglass shape is a fertility symbol to the stool carved by a young man as a sign of his goldwork to basketry, weaving to pottery, are an astounding body of work and provide a lesson in how people use their natural environment—and their hands—to create splendid objects and surrounds.

Artefactos : Colombian Crafts from the Andes to the Amazon