Purple Corn, Coyol Sap & Legume Pods of Guanacaste & Nicoya

Wild foods and ancestral agriculture in northwestern Costa Rica.

This region of northwestern Costa Rica, an area of rare tropical dry forest, is home to dozens of exceptional ingredients, many of them endemic to the region or this particular kind of ecosystem. As most tourists gravitate primarily to coastal areas where much of the food is imported, little of these foods are seen. However, the region is large and spre…