Cooking with marijuana has long been the inspiration for culinary clubs and cookbooks in the United States, but cooking with another taboo green leaf is picking up speed in Bolivia.Coca leaves are what Coca-Cola is named after, and as you may know, they're the raw material from which cocaine is derived. According to A.V. Club, the people of…
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Steven Soderbergh’s sprawling two-part film Che could safely be pegged as one of the Oscar-winning director's biggest flops, but it did lead him into an intriguing, maybe even life-changing hobby. It was while filming the second part of the saga of Che Guevara in Bolivia that Soderbergh discovered the spirit singani, a liquor made from…
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What is Bolivian food? Given that it comes from one of the least-visited South American countries, you probably don't have a clue. Look to the country’s understated restaurant scene, with its reputation for plain meat-and-potato menus, and you likely won’t find many answers, either.But stroll through Mercado Rodriguez in La Paz, Bolivia’s high-altitude metropolis, and…
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We're on the quinoa bandwagon as part of our fitness routine and we love it as a nice change-up in a salad or with morning granola, but The New York Times suggests that we may be ruining things for the Bolivians. Water is a hot topic right now, mainly as it relates to clean drinking…
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