Karla Tatiana Vasquez's search for a favorite family recipe became a cookbook documenting the food and culture of El Salvador.
Karla Tatiana Vasquez's search for a favorite family recipe became a cookbook documenting the food and culture of El Salvador.About a decade ago, Karla Tatiana Vasquez tried learning how to make her favorite dish: salpicón salvadoreño, a beef salad with radishes, mint, lime and salt.
"We will toast this medley of seeds. And after they've been toasted, we put them in the blender. We strain it, and then we sweeten it." she said,"Almost everything in life is better toasted, I think." "I wasn't expecting to get people calling me from like Minnesota writing me emails from Paris." she said."Like there were people as close as like Crenshaw District, as far away as people in Abu Dhabi."She always knew there were a lot of Salvadorans in Los Angeles, but this was the first time she got an idea of how far-flung the diaspora extended beyond the city.
But it was the words of her grandmother Lucy that cemented her resolve:"Esto se trata del legado de la mujer Salvadoreña."
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