At last, after nearly 10 years, Karla Vasquez's 'The SalviSoul Cookbook' is being published by Ten Speed Press with terrific Salvadoran recipes you'll want to make and stories of the women who shared them.
Food never happened in a vacuum for Karla Tatiana Vasquez. Stories always followed. Whenever her grandmother or mother cooked, Vasquez knew something special was coming. Their food unlocked memories, especially about El Salvador — the homeland they’d fled in the late 1980s during the country’s civil war. Vasquez was born in the Central American nation but had no memory of it. She was an infant when her family spirited her away to Los Angeles, where many family members ended up settling.
”I think a lot of the reason why the cookbook is stories and recipes is because that is how I’ve come to understand my Salvi upbringing. That’s how I’ve been able to touch it when I’ve been so far away from it.” “The stories have been my food. The stories have taught me something about living,” she says. “The stories have taught me something about love, loss and war. It taught me something about sarcasm.” Getting the book out into the world also taught her about persistence.
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