Savory Salteñas Are the Comforting Bolivian Snack D.C. Needs Right Now

Laura Hayes reports for Washington City Paper: Saya Salteña from Maria Iturralde launched earlier this month, offering pick-up and delivery. There are consequences to mistaking a salteña for an empanada. The signature Bolivian snack resembles an empanada with its crimped edges, but if executed properly, the pastry should serve as a pocket for a savory…

Metro bakery features family passion and Bolivian tradition

Matt Pearl, Liza Lucas report for 11 Alive: Enjoy Bolivian empanadas, cakes and pastries from Sweet Rossy BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — It was a love of baking between mother and daughter that inspired the creation of Sweet Rossy Bolivian Bakery. “My idea is that my family – my son and daughters – can keep these recipes and don’t…

Bolivian food reflects our mestizo roots!

Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: Bolivian food tastes like miscegenation in an anthology book Researcher Beatriz Rossells traces the history of gastronomy. Rescue native products and culinary traditions to explain their current reinvention. The researcher and historian Beatriz Rossells during the interview. That attempt of the Spaniards to disappear the indigenous culture during the…

National exotic food for extravagant tastes

Nicole Vargas reports for Opinion, photos after the first one are from the internet: Nationally, Bolivia has innumerable characteristics that make it unique in the world and captivate its own and strangers. Its unparalleled landscapes and natural landscapes are compared almost as much with its gastronomy, recognized on multiple occasions internationally. The mixture of flavors,…

Bolivian gastronomic complexity and complication

Andrés Rodriguez reports for La Razon: ‘Anthology of Bolivian gastronomy’, by Beatriz Rossells edited by the Bicentennial Library, will be presented on July 30 at the Japanese Garden of La Paz. ‘Antología de la gastronomía boliviana’, obra de Beatriz Rossells Perhaps one of the most difficult questions they have asked any Bolivian abroad is the…