Salvadorian Music

Cumbia

The Rhythm of El Salvador

        Cumbia is the national music listened too and is one most popular music listened to by the El Salvadorians. This music can be heard every where in El Salvador, It is used in El Salvador for times of parties, get togethers, and for person pleasure. Cumbia is a music that has and fast or slow pace it rhythm also has origins that are both central american natives and african influence. The  instrument used to make the rhythm are accordion, electric bass, conga, guira, trombone, guitar and occasional keyboard.

 

El Salvador has many famous groups that sing Cumbia such as Los Hermanos Flores, Aniceto Molina, Orchestra San Vicente, Groupo Bravo, and Sangre Morena. The music is every where in El Salvador. It’s like a bakery baking fresh bread and the smell that travels through the streets. It can be heard for restaurants, vehicles, street corners, markets, and homes. This music is said to lift the spirit of people when they are feeling down. 

Music of El Salvador. (2010, october14) Wikipedia. Retrieved November 4,2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_El_Salvador.

Signature El salvadorian Dishes

The Flavor Of Central America

These pictures are of some of my favorite El Salvadorian dishes. The big picture is a picture of riguas, the top picture is a picture of sopa de mariscada, and the last picture is a picture of Pupusas. El salvador food is different from the surrounding countries, it is like El Salvador has its own different flavor. We have a lot of things that set us apart like our famous pupusas they are a El salvadorian original we are the only country that eats them. Even our tortillas are different from Guatemala's, and Nicaragua's tortillas. Our tortillas are thicker and are made of corn flour and the surrounding countries tortillas are small and paper thin.

The pupusa is a corn flour tortilla with an inner layer that has cheese, meat and cheese, or beans and cheese.  They are The pupusa is every where in El salvador they are sold in every you go at the market, road corners, even they are sold on push carts. the pupusa are sold in their own special restaurants called pupusarias. The sopa de mariscada is a soup that is usually ate that the beach or on special occasions. The sopa de mariscada (seafood soup) is a soup is a soup that is made of seafood it consist of 

shrimp,crab,clams,and lobster. It also has vegetable such as green peppers, tomato,onions and cilantro. The soup also comes in a cream based soup as well and this is my favorite version of the soup. It is served with a piece of lime and fresh pico de gallo. These side are to be added riguas are my personal favor a rigua is a food that is sold every where in El Salvador just like the pupusa. The rigua is like a fresh corn tamale that is flat with fresh cheese that is similar to mozzarella but not as salty. the rigua is served with fresh cream that is similar to sour cream. 

El Salvador:cuisine and recipes.what4eats(n.d.). Retrievied November 4,2010, from http://what4eats.com