Inside San Francisco’s La Cocina Municipal MarketpIace, a new multicultural food hall in the Tenderloin, chef Estrella Gonzalez and her Estrellita’s Snacks staff are hand-filling pupusas to order with ...

Celebrate Salvadoran culture with a delicious twist on traditional dishes. Chef Karla T. Vasquez created SalviSoul, a cookbook storytelling project focused on recipe documentation and cultural memory.

The sight of freshly cooked pupusas warms my soul. I’m the child of Salvadoran parents, so pupusas were served for every occasion. Breakfast, lunch, dinner—they’re an all-day kind of food. Mexicans ...

Rinse cod under cold water. Place pieces in large bowl; submerge completely in cold water. Cover; transfer to refrigerator. Let cod soak 24-36 hours, changing water every 8 hours. Rinse cod; using ...

One by one. Pat by pat. Pupusa after handmade pupusa. “It was so hard to make pupusas — I cried!” recalled Ofelia Amaya, sitting at a table inside her family’s second restaurant, Balcon Express, which ...

After years of working in chain restaurant kitchens around Fayetteville, Yeni Lopez was yearning to cook the foods of her native El Salvador and open a business of her own. Lopez, 41, left a nearly 20 ...