Venezuelan Chicha: A Sweet Legacy from the Shores of Paria to the Streets of Today - teleSUR English

Venezuelan Chicha: A Sweet Legacy from the Shores of Paria to the Streets of Today - teleSUR English

Long before it became a creamy street favorite served with cinnamon and condensed milk, chicha venezolana was already a cultural cornerstone—its earliest mention dating back to Christopher Columbus’s third voyage, when he arrived at the coast of Paria and was offered “wines of different colors” by the Indigenous peoples. Those “wines,” as later clarified by anthropologist Ocarina Castillo, were in fact chichas, fermented or not, made from maize …