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Sweat threatens to wash over my face as the eternal red hand on the Chicago Avenue crosswalk light mocks me. I attack the useless button on the pole that I\u2019m sure is just there to distract from the unbearably long wait. <\/span>I think I\u2019m just hot. Or hungry. Or both.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, where are we going?\u201d I look at Saira and Ceci desperately.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s just walk around and see,\u201d Saira says sanely, like a person who isn\u2019t about to strangle a crosswalk light. Luckily, the light turns.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s moments like these when I miss Bogot\u00e1 the most. I miss the constantly cool weather and arepas. <\/span>Oh, and empanadas. Don\u2019t even get me started on \u2014<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cPatacones?\u201d I shriek.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Saira and Ceci whip their heads toward where I\u2019m looking. A little restaurant with patacones on the windows and a bright red sign that says \u201cLa Cocinita\u201d stands before me. It\u2019s a Venezuelan restaurant. It doesn\u2019t serve the Colombian food I desperately need, but my craving is stronger than my loyalty to my country, so I decide to go off geographical closeness, not authenticity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no AC in the restaurant, but the promise of arepas, empanadas and patacones (or tostones, as Venezuelans call them) beats the heat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We order, and after a couple of minutes of anticipatory finger tapping, the food arrives. Though it’s not Colombian food, not even close, I feel a piece of home in Evanston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m doing what Colombians do best: Sharing food with people I deeply care about.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When hunger and heat exhaustion kick in, there’s nothing like sharing food from home. Well… close enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[176],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":176,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cap-apardo","display_name":"Angelica Pardo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}