“You just healed my hand with an arepa con queso,” Mirabel Madrigal tells her mother, Julieta, in the movie “Encanto,” while holding a cheesy arepa – a round corn cake. “I healed your hand with love,” ...

Both countries claim the cornbread as their own. But where does it really come from? And who makes it better? Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain in Medellín, Colombia, ...

Oscar Marquez, owner of Mama Vicky's Pupusas y Más in Plano, flips a papusa in Texas, Sunday, July 28, 2024. A pupusa is a thick griddle cake or flatbread from El Salvador, filled with meat, beans or ...

Arepas are corn cakes that are primarily eaten in Colombia and Venezuela as meals, accompaniments to meals, or snacks, but they have been part of South American culinary life since pre-Columbian times ...

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Along Sepulveda Boulevard ...