Category: Food Words

Home / Food Words
Post

Aplatanado, Aplatanada – On Acceptance, By Plantain

There are interesting concepts in places and languages that express cultural acceptance, that touch on home and identity.  Like aplatanado (male), aplatanada (female). In Cuba and The Dominican Republic, it’s a term that describes someone who has become ‘one of us’ – aplatanado or aplatanada. At the root of it is the word, platanos, of...