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Yine
Interviews
Interview with : Sra. Lola Trigoso
Interviewers : Iva Smutny/Anja Stijnen
Date : 26-June-01 (14:30 – 15:30)
The Yine people do not always eat breakfast; it depends whether there
is meat available or not. It also depends on one’s work schedule.
Sometimes they only drink masato for breakfast. Lunch is normally at
either 13:00 or at 14:00. At lunch they eat a lot of meat, fish,
bananas and yucca. Often they do not eat dinner since the lunch can
also happen a bit later. They generally eat twice a day.
Nutrition
They eat what grows and lives on the island. Fruits that are grown
there: papaya, banana, orange, mandarin, mango, coconut, watermelon,
lemons, aguaje. Vegetables: leeks, uncucha, cucumber, cabbage, tomato,
camote, corn, parsley, oregano, cilantro and peanuts. The Yine will
sometimes plant a garden, but they usually harvest the fruits and
vegetables where they grow. They do not eat many vegetables; however,
yuca, bananas and chilies are present in every meal. Yucas are
collected in baskets made of ropes called “ támichi “. Animals that
they consume include: fish, white-lipped peccaries, agoutis, collared
peccaries, monkeys (the howler, capuchin and spider monkeys) and
huasitas.
Hunting devices
These days it’s typical to hunt using shotguns, before only bow and
arrow were used, which is rarely used today. The bow is made of
pijhuayo (a plant similar to a palm tree) the rope is knitted from
cetico (cecropia, “ yocle “ in yine). The arrows contain two parts: a
tube and a point. The tube is made of caña brava (similar to sugar
cane) and the point is made from pijhuayo (just like the bow). The
feathers come from macaw, parrot, razor-billed curassow and other
birds.
Fishing devices
There are several devices used for fishing, such as the bow and arrow,
fishing line and ‘tarrafa’. The later is a round net that encloses an
area after it is thrown into a part of the river where there are many
fish.
Daily dishes
The most common dishes eaten are: pataraska, pacamoto, fish soup and
roasted or smoked meat
• fish pataraska
- Pass a few banana leaves in order for them not to break afterwards.
- Remove the fish insides and wash it, salt to taste.
- Wrap the raw fish in banana leaves (you can substitute with bark of
a certain tree)
- Place in the fire for about a half-hour or until it is cooked.
- It can be served with cooked plantains (peel the plantains, they can
be cut in half or along its length); place in a pot and cook over low
fire.
• Pacamoto (paca is bamboo)
- Wash the bamboo
- Place pieces of fish between the knots of the bamboo.
- Cook slowly over a low fire or in the brass.
Typical Plates
• Suri : the palm tree worm, it can be eaten two ways: raw (alive) or
fried (remove the worm's insides and fry).
• Paychipango : place salted fish in a pot, with banana or yuca on top
of it, cook together.
• Chapo (refreshment) : cook ripe bananas in a pot and blend together
with water.
• Masato (alcoholic beverage) :
- Pick yuca, peel it and dice into small pieces and wash it.
- Place in a pot over a flame and boil.
- Drain the water and put it aside, then mash the yuca
- Grate camote (the amount of camote will depend on how much masato
you are preparing)
- Grind corn, put it with the camote and then add the yuca water plus
some extra water.
- Mix until it becomes a semi-thin dough with no clumps, the clumps
would give off a bad odor.
- Stirr the dough the following day.
The color of the masato will depend on the type of camote used. (There
are many types of camote.)
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