One of the linguistic challenges a person faces is how to translate the untranslatable. This presentation includes names, short descriptions and pictures of different types of traditional breads of Chile. It is based on the article: http://www.speakinglatino.com/breads-of-chile-picture-guide/

1. By WWW.SPEAKINGLATINO.COM

2. One of the linguistic challenges a person
faces is how to translate the untranslatable.
This is certainly true for foods. A
fundamental part of my travel experience is
the food I encounter. Strolling through
markets I always find a new item to try or
to ask about. And there’s always something
that will not be explained properly with
words….

3. In Chile I had that experience with the
breads. The first time I walked into a
bakery not only was I surprised to find
strange-shaped breads, it also caught my
eye that you serve yourself, and then pay
for the bread by weight. But trying to
explain the bread types in translated words
is almost impossible.
- Jared Romey
Author of Speaking Chileno:
A Guide to Spanish from Chile

4. 1. Pan amasado
a typical Chilean bread
baked in a brick oven. The
bread is dense and because
of the brick oven holds a
grilled flavor to it. Best by itself
or with butter. You can
purchase this on the side of
major roadways.

5. 2. Pan de molde loaf bread. The normal, run-of-the-mill
bread you know from home. Molde is the word for a mold, or
bread pan. It is not related to the word mold, as in nasty fungus.

6. 3. Pan frica
a round, lighter bread used, for example, for hamburger buns or
chacareros.

7. 4. Pan hallulla
generally round-shaped and
extremely flat, like a squished
hockey puck. With dimples.
Light in flavor and convenient
for sandwiches.

8. 5. Pan
marraqueta
one of the most common
breads, shaped pretty closely
to butt-cheeks. There is a
slight saltiness and because of
its shape when split (half a
butt-cheek) it makes an easy
mini-sandwich.
Other names: pan batido or
pan francés

9. 6. Pan de miga this looks like normal white bread, but
much thinner, with the crusts cut off. It is used to make small
sandwiches used for cocktail parties, work activities or any type
of group function.

10. Read the full article:
http://www.speakinglatino.com/breads-of-chile-picture-guide/
Photo
credits:
1. Pan
amasado:
Delicioso
pan
de
campamento
by
Tom
(CC-­‐BY),
on
Flickr
hAp://flic.kr/p/4tgEYT
2. Pan
de
molde:
Bread
by
sk8geek,
on
Flickr
hAp://flic.kr/p/77kVj5
3. Pan
frica:
Filete
Dominó[
by
CrisQán
Santana
B.,
on
Flickr
hAp://flic.kr/p/6xG6aN