Sancocho

Soups are an important element in the South American cuisine. In my home they played an indispensable part of the main meal. Most South American soups originated in European kitchens, but a few like sancocho date back to pre-Hispanic times. In fact sancocho was the...

Sancocho

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Sabor Reviewed in Umami Greek Magazine

"I begin with Sabor, in North London. Sabor is a very particular Latin-american restaurant, where each dish comes from another Latin America country. I really like the owner, Esnayder Cuartas from Colombia, who welcomed me in the restaurant as if I was his best...

What if Latin America Ruled the World?

Some of us at Sabor went to Colombiage for the first time just a couple of years ago; this is a festival of Colombian literature, music, cinema and even gastronomy, which has been held at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith for the last couple of years. During that...

A Brief History of Chocolate

Chocolate is one of the most fascinating of all the foods that South Americans Indians gave to the world. The cacao tree originated in the Americas, probably in the basins of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where most species of cacao are still found. Cacao grows in...

Hay Festival in Cartagena

We are delighted to share this article about the Hay Festival in Cartagena, written by Kevin Conroy Scott, a literary agent at Tibor Jones & Associates that also promotes and represents Latin American writers such as Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Oscar Guardiola Rivera in...

Empanadas Paisas

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ChocQuibTown at Jazz Cafe

As we are music lovers we are delighted to see the mighty Afro-Colombian group Choc Quib Town make a rare UK appearance. They have won critical acclaim for their enticing fusion of hip-hop, dub, electronica and rhythms from Colombia's Pacific coast, and they will be...

Latinos at Tate Modern 10 Year Celebrations

Tate Modern is celebrating 10 years this weekend. They have a Free Festival with lots of activities Like 'No Soul For Sale" A Festival of Independents arts Spaces from all over the world .There are three Latin American Art Collectives participating, including Casa...

Ceviche

This is one of our contribution to Perfiles a London base Latin American MagazineOpen publication - Free publishing

Ceviche

This is one of our contribution with Perfiles a London base latin american publication Open publication - Free publishing

Cacao

This is one of our contributions with Express News about the Chocolate, it's importance and uses in the South American CuisineOpen publication - Free publishing - More terremoto

CimarrĂ³n

On Thursday 18th March the superb Colombian joropo band CimarrĂ³n are coming to the Union Chapel in Islington. Performers like this bring back memories for me of my upbringing in Colombia, and in particular the diversity of musical and other cultural experiences which...

The Importance of Corn

As part of series of articles on gastronomy which Sabor has been contributing to Express News, we submitted the piece embedded below about corn. Corn was as important to the pre-Colombian inhabitants of the Americas as it is today.Open publication - Free publishing -...

Empanada History

If there was one theme which might bring war to Latin America, maybe it would be not football, not global warming, not border disputes, nor the disagreements between Chavez, Uribe and Correa - but the humble empanada.The empanada can be (and at times has been) the...