by Esnayder | Jan 15, 2017 | Casa Sabor, Food, History, South American Food
What is plantain? This is one of the most frequent questions I get asked, every time I put a menu down. In my own style I describe it as a starchy banana and get on with the food order. It is about time that I offer a public apology to those lovely customers,...
by Esnayder | Jun 10, 2016 | Casa Sabor, Cocktails, Colombia, Drinks, Esnayder Cuartas, Exotic Fruits, Lulo, South American Food
As a person that was brought up in the Andes in Colombia, I learned to love fruits from a very early age, thanks to my father’s passion and tradition of planting fruit trees, and in some cases naming the trees after kids. For me, the most delicious of South American...
by Esnayder | May 16, 2016 | Casa Sabor, coffee, Colombia, Drinks, Esnayder Cuartas, Quinchia, Risaralda, Sabor, South American Food
Coffee, as much as any other food or drink, evokes for many Europeans images of South America. However contrary to popular belief, the coffee tree is not indigenous to the Americas. It came from Africa, via Arabia and Europe in the eighteenth century. Now Colombia,...
by Esnayder | Mar 9, 2016 | Casa Sabor, Colombia, Empanadas, Esnayder Cuartas, Food, History, Pablo Salgado, Sabor, South American Food
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)...
by Esnayder | Apr 30, 2015 | Chillies, Drinks, Peru, Reviews, South American Food, Uncategorized
It was a happy surprise for me to find out that Chotto Matte was one of the finalists for the Peruvian Restaurant of the Year on the Lukas Awards 2015. This must be a great coincidence that I started my career in gastronomy in London in the same building that today...
by Esnayder | May 6, 2013 | Cartagena, Casa Sabor, Cocktails, Colombia, Drinks, Esnayder Cuartas, Food, Latin Music, Literature, Sabor, South American Food
My relationship with Cartagena: I grew up in the coffee growing region of the Colombian Andes. A special treat on finishing secondary school was a visit to the Caribbean coast. Cartagena was the icing on the cake. The city, situated on the northern coast of...
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