Karla feels most at home surrounded by family at the dinner table sharing Salvadoran food and stories. Her project SalviSoul aims to document both the recipes and the legacy of Salvadoran women. So grab a plate, share some stories, and nourish your belly and your soul with Karla Vasquez of SalviSoul!
Karla T. Vasquez is a food writer, cooking instructor, recipe developer, speaker and a food justice advocate who specializes in documenting Central American food history. She’s also the founder of SalviSoul, a Salvadoran cookbook storytelling project focused on recipe documentation, cultural memory and intergenerational healing for the Salvadoran diaspora.
- Arrive in the US Tuesday, start work Thursday
- Dinner table stories
- Reconciling a paradise at war
- Identity through food
- Compassion for generation before us
- Discovering Salvi friends
- Type 1 diabetes and Salvi food
- Determined to hold on to home
- Cooking school!
- Learning with grandma
- Finding more stories to share
- Meeting Alicia Maher
- Publishing challenges
- Flexibility with what’s Salvi
- Dealing with mass acceptance4
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Music:
Salvi Nacion by Crooked Stilo
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