"Taste Of El Salvador II" With Salvadoran Chef & Cookbook Author Alicia Maher

TASTE OF EL SALVADOR II

Discover El Salvador's authentic food with award-winner cookbook author and cooking teacher Alicia Maher. No passport needed! Alicia will also give a brief talk on Salvadoran food history.

Sun, July 28, 2019 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Sun, August 4, 2019 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Menu

You will be welcome with your choice of wine, beer or a Salvadoran, non-alcoholic pineapple beverage. (Two beers limit per person)

Appetizer 1: Cheese pupusa with tomato sauce and curtido. Pupusas are El Salvador’s national dish! The word “pupusa” derives from the Nahuat language and it has two possible meanings, either “stuffed” or “puffy,” perhaps in reference to the fillings and how pupusas puff up after cooked.

Appetizer 2: Shrimp cocktail with pink sauce, served with saltine crackers. With the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Fonseca coastlines reaching over 200 miles, we are lucky to enjoy a variety of succulent and tasty seafood dishes all year-round. This dish is one of the many seafood appetizers we serve in El Salvador.

Main course: Chicken in alguashte sauce, served with Salvadoran rice. Alguashte means ground pumpkin seeds. This delicious powder is the base for this fresh and tasty tomato sauce that transforms the chicken into a delectable and juicy dish.

Desserts: Enjoy these iconic Salvadoran desserts! Semita de pina -Crispy pineapple-filled pastry, Leche poleada -Vanilla custard/pudding

About Alicia Maher

Born and raised in Santa Ana, El Salvador, Alicia Maher ’92 is the bilingual author and publisher of Delicious El Salvador: 75 Authentic Recipes for Traditional Salvadoran Cooking, and the Spanish language edition, El Salvador, Sabores Deliciosos: 75 Recetas Auténticas de la Cocina Tradicional Salvadoreña. Delicious El Salvador was her first cookbook.

Alicia has been featured in top media outlets, including CNN Latino, MundoFox, Esmitv, The Latin Kitchen, Los Angeles Magazine, La Opinion, EFE, El Tiempo Latino, El Salvador.com, Cook’s Cook Magazine and more. Alicia was named El Salvador’s Culinary Ambassador by UCLA Magazine, Revista Ella from El Salvador, and Sercano TV.

In 2014, in Beijing, Delicious El Salvador won the Gourmand Award for Best First Cookbook in the World. Delicious El Salvador also won a Gourmand Award at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015, for Best First Cookbook of the last twenty years. These are the first international cookbook awards for El Salvador’s traditional home cooking. Alicia graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Art History, class of 1992.

Author & Publisher: Delicious El Salvador and El Salvador, Sabores Deliciosos

Website: http://deliciouselsalvador.com/
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