Melting Pot and Manq’a Bolivia proves it can be done!

Melting Pot Bolivia reports: Learning to cook together for a better world” The MANQ’A Project (Aymara word meaning “food”), is an initiative of Melting Pot Bolivia created with the aim of improving the quality of life of the community in El Alto within the principles of gender equity, multiculturalism and food sovereignty. The MANQ’A project…

Homestays and rural ways: Flora Baker savours Bolivia – in pictures

Flora Baker for The Guardian: The food and colours of working life in the Andean foothills are captured in these images snapped while undertaking voluntary work. I’m a travel writer from London who spent 18 months volunteering in South America. In Bolivia, I volunteered at a rural library project in the village of Morado K’asa,…

The Hirshon Bolivian Saltena

From the Food Dictator : Citizens, today we scale the magnificent Andes mountains to bring you a favorite recipe of the proud country of Bolivia! Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Spanish: Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered to the north and…

Bolivia’s growing gourmet scene: Welcome to the high life in the Andes

The Independent reports: Bolivia’s growing gourmet scene: Welcome to the high life in the Andes ​’Bolivia’ and ‘gourmet’ are two words seldom seen together. Not any more, says Sarah Gilbert Tender pork neck, millefeuille of crackling, the sweetness of peaches offset by the tang of red chillies. All washed down with a spicy local syrah….

A walking tour of La Paz city

  Daniel Hinojosa reports for Pagina Siete: A walking tour of La Paz A tour of the most traditional areas areas in La Paz, enchants tourists. During a pedestrian walk in the historic center of the city of La Paz, Nico Thurow, a German and fan travel volunteer, has tasted the most delicious fruits tested…