Cuchara de palo (wooden spoon) is a utensil used to serve soup and rice dishes, like a ladle. Huacal (bowl), which is a bowl and used as one.  You can also use it like how we use mugs to drink coffee, or water, and a drink that's called horchata de morro. They’re made by harvesting a fruit called morro, cutting it. And leave it out to dry.   It has been used for multiple generations, starting from the Lenka, an Indigenous tribe originating from El Salvador, and has been passed down from my great-grandmother to my grandmother to my mother. You can find this today in El Salvadorian households.  In today’s age, it’s used in day-to-day life via sections in society.   The average person or tribesman would use it because of necessity. And for traditions, say, the day of the dead for example. While I’d imagine the higher ups would keep it as more of a souvenir or a high-end item used as a talking piece.   These Culinary items are important to me, because they represent a part of my heritage that I’m familiar with, yet I don’t know too much about. To me, these are the links that I have to a culture I haven’t really gotten to experience. One that someday I can connect to my El Salvadorian heritage and my family.  

– Emanuel Morrison

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