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How to Veganize Your Favorite Latin Recipes for Holidays

Shayne Rodriguez Thompson
An essential part of the holidays is the FOOD and in our community we go all out and enjoy delicious home-cooked meals we don’t usually get to enjoy at any other time. If you’re Latinx and you’ve gone vegan though,...
Lifestyle

How One Vegan Chef Uses Indigenous Ingredients to Decolonize Mexican Food

Virginia Isaad
Chef Denise Vallejo is proud of her indigenous roots and she’s showing it by taking Mexican recipes and reintroducing them with a vegan twist that incorporates ancestral ingredients. Through her mobile kitchen, Alchemy Organica, she’s ushering a movement for people...
Lifestyle

How To Decolonize Your Latino Holiday Dishes

HipLatina
There’s this very American mentality that Latin cuisine isn’t healthy. Sure, starchy carbs and processed meats aren’t great for you but there are a lot of foods and ingredients—vegetables especially—that our abuelos and abuelas grew up eating that are filled...
Lifestyle

Decolonizing Foods: This Is How Latinas Are Reclaiming Their Ancestral Diets

Johanna Ferreira
There’s this misconception people tend to have around Latin cuisine, that it’s fried, loaded with starchy carbs, filled with beef, along with other processed meats, and smothered in grease and fat. It’s delicious, but by no means healthy. But the...
Lifestyle

This Latina Is on a Mission to Bring Healthier, Affordable Food to More Latinx Communities

Yvette Montoya
Todo Verde has come a long way! Jocelyn Ramirez’s mission to fight for the Latino community’s access to affordable, clean foods began with smoothies and has now grown into a full on catering business.  Her journey started back in 2014 when...