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    Good Food

    Salvadoran Culinary Roots

    Journalist and author Rubén Martínez believes that for many immigrants, food is a crucial link to home. For him and other Salvadorans, that link is the pupusa. Not quite as well known as the taco, the pupusa is the national dish of El Salvador.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Journalist and author Rubén Martínez believes that for many immigrants, food is a crucial link to home. For him and other Salvadorans, that link is the pupusa. Not quite as well known as the taco, the pupusa is the national dish of El Salvador. Made out of corn masa, it’s stuffed with cheese, beans, chicharon (pork rind) or loroco (flower bud) and is garnished with curtido (a pickled cabbage, onion and carrot mixture) and a red tomato sauce.

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    The full episode

    8 of 9
    Intelligentsia Coffee; Tomato Obsession; Frozen Margarita
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:00Eggplant Ideas
    3. 15:00Intelligentsia Coffee
    4. 22:00Tomato Obsession
    5. 29:00Buy a Water Meter
    6. 36:00Disaster Food Preparedness
    7. 43:00Frozen Margarita Ice Pops
    8. 47:00Salvadoran Culinary RootsYou’re reading this
    9. 53:00Two Angry Moms
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