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According to Chávez, these priests visited remote towns and sought to understand the worldview of the “criollo” people, whose Indigenous spiritual practices intertwined with new Christian customs and beliefs.

The mound of mashed fried plantains, draped with clean curls of shrimp sauteed in criollo sauce, is unapologetically — you might say gloriously — starchy.

In Venezuela, he wafts a chocolate bar made with rare criollo under the reader’s nose.

Her Cuban-American family bastes the turkey in a mojo criollo marinade.

It was at coastal haciendas that slaves began to prepare some of Peru's first criollo dishes, using ingredients like rice, onions, and limes that had been introduced via Spain's colonial foodways.