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Cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively ...

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bread Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diet. It is one of the oldest human-made f ...

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cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively ...

, and in some regions of the country,

guava Guava () is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. The common guava ''Psidium guajava'' (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae), native to Mexico, Central America, the ...

jam. Traditionally, it is consumed with hot chocolate, still warm a few minutes after baking. It is very popular in the

n department of Valle del Cauca. This bread can be made in both a round and a ring shape.

Etymology

It is said that an Italian baker who lived in the

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Cali Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...

baked the bread and every afternoon went out to sell them, yelling “pane del buono” in the streets. This is how the name became popular. Another version documented by Edouard André in his article “América Equinoccial” published in “América Pintoresca” says that the name came from a site on the road between

Dagua Dagua () is a town and municipality located in the Department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's ...

and Cali called “Hacienda El Bono” where the product was originally made. Thus, the inhabitants of the region used to buy it and referred to it as “Pan del Bono” meaning “Bread from El Bono” and by the continued use the name was abbreviated as “Pandebono”. Still another version states that the name comes from the voucher (Spanish “bono”) the workers from the region's

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farms received as part of their compensation, which could be exchanged for bread. Therefore, the name would mean “voucher bread”.

References

* América Pintoresca, Montaner y Simon, 1884, vol. 3, pp. 70

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