burén
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Burén, also known as a budare{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a37SEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bur%C3%A9n%22+cook&pg=PA359|title=Encyclopedia of Caribbean Archaeology|first1=Basil A.|last1=Reid|first2=R. Grant Gilmore|last2=III|date=March 4, 2014|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-4853-6 |via=Google Books}} or a budali,{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjtDAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Burén%22+cook&pg=PA298 | title=Actas del XXXIII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas: San José, 20-27 Julio 1958 | date=1959 }} is a cooking utensil in Puerto Rican cuisine, that originated in Taino cuisine throughout the Greater Antilles. It is a thick metal plate, and similar in structure to a griddle. During the Taino period, most buréns were ceramic. It was used by the Tainos to cook over a fire.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-ukEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bur%C3%A9n%22+cook&pg=PT149|title=Moon Puerto Rico: Best Beaches, Outdoor Adventures, Local Favorites|first=Suzanne Van|last=Atten|date=September 5, 2023|publisher=Avalon Publishing|isbn=978-1-64049-757-3 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sadgAQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bur%C3%A9n%22+cook&pg=PT33|title=The Myth of Indigenous Caribbean Extinction: Continuity and Reclamation in Borikén (Puerto Rico)|first=T.|last=Castanha|date=December 14, 2010|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-11640-5 |via=Google Books}}
Background
The Tainos used it to cook cassava and breadcakes called casabe. In Jamaica, a cassava flatbread of Taino origin is called bammy.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M33aOoslSTMC&dq=%22Bur%C3%A9n%22+cook&pg=PA110|title=The Earliest Inhabitants: The Dynamics of the Jamaican Taíno|first=Lesley-Gail|last=Atkinson|date=September 8, 2006|publisher=University of the West Indies Press|isbn=978-976-640-149-8 |via=Google Books}} They ground the cassava first, before cooking it on a burén.{{cite web | url=https://tainomuseum.org/portfolio-view/food-preparation-on-buren/ | title=Food preparation on Buren }} A woodcut was made of Taino women cooking using this method.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YPSEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bur%C3%A9n%22+cook&pg=PT41|title=Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba|first=Luis|last=Martínez-Fernández|date=August 22, 2019|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-1-68340-137-7 |via=Google Books}}
El Burén de Lula is a book about a chef using traditional cooking technique.{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rwXOEAAAQBAJ&dq="Burén"+cook&pg=PA31 | title=Roberto Clemente: A great ballplayer and a greater human being | isbn=978-1-68574-381-9 | last1=Cabán González | first1=Ángel R. | date=22 May 2023 | publisher=Ibukku LLC }} A short film features her and the burén.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mjD9RVIQtk |title=Eat, Drink, Share Puerto Rico Food • El Burén de Lula |date=2019-06-17 |last=La Mafia, Puerto Rico |access-date=2024-09-28 |via=YouTube}}
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