LOS ANGELES — Food never happened in a vacuum for Karla Tatiana Vasquez. Stories always followed.
Whenever her grandmother or mother cooked, Vasquez knew something special was coming. Their food unlocked memories, especially about El Salvador — the homeland they’d fled in the late 1980s during the country’s civil war.
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Karla Tatiana Vasquez, standing, leads a SalviSoul cooking class in 2019 on how to make Salvadoran quesadillas.
Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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"The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them," by Karla Tatiana Vasquez.
Penguin Random House/TNS
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