A kind of food sold by vendors at the county fair in Miami. It's two thick corn (maize) pancakes with a filling of provolone, which melts together to make a sort of grilled cheese sandwich thingy. Very good stuff. The name is Spanish, so you say it "ah-REH-pah".

A plain cheese quesadilla is similar to an arepa, only the flour tortilla used in a quesadilla is as thin as cloth, and is larger in area. The cornbread-like circles of an arepa are each about the size of five CD-ROMs in a stack.