Your Family’s Favorite Pepian

This is the chicken pepian that Maricza Mancilla looks forward to every year for her birthday. Her mother taught her to make their family recipe when Maricza was growing up in Chimatelango. The food from this southern Guatemala area is known as cherepe, she says. What is cherepe comida? Maricza laughs: “Spicy.” That makes mucho sense. Her homeland’s famed chile...