ABSTRACT
Elizabeth Burgos describes in detail how a friend brings maize flour from Venezuela, which Rigoberta Menchu uses to craft tortillas, which, for the Quiche, are thin rounds of cornmeal, ground and formed by hand. Different from the traditional relationship in which the mistress told her domestic servant what to cook, the Maya-Quiche prepares tortillas, the base of her diet, in such a way, very subtly the intellectual to eat what the indigenous eat. The meals that Rigoberta Menchu and Burgos share become a foundational metaphor for the testimonial process, but also ultimately manifest the testimonial text itself. The idea that food helps to found the Latina testimonio text is a novel one in the sense that it has not been previously addressed in criticism focusing on the genre. However, there is a seemingly easy relationship between food and testimonio, which rests on the shared, communal nature and the necessity for survival of both within the context of the testimonial genre.
