SalviSoul
Donde Come Uno, Comen Dos
We’re celebrating Salvadoran tradition and culture
SalviSoul was founded by 1st gen Salvadoran-American Karla T. Vasquez to bring you the recipes and stories of the Salvadoran diaspora in the United States. Keeping Salvadoran food culture intact and sustained through: a forthcoming cookbook, workshops, cooking classes and community.
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The SalviSoul Cookbook is Here!
In this collection of eighty recipes, Karla shares her conversations with moms, aunts, grandmothers, and friends to preserve their histories so that they do not go unheard. Here are recipes for Rellenos de Papa from Patricia, who remembers the Los Angeles earthquakes of the 1980s for more reasons than just fear; Flor de Izote con Huevos Revueltos, a favorite of Karla's father; as well as variations on the beloved Salvadoran Pupusa, a thick masa tortilla stuffed with different combinations of pork, cheese, and beans. Though their stories vary, the women have a shared experience of what it was like in El Salvador before the war, and what life was like as Salvadoran women surviving in their new home in the United States.
Community Woven Stories
Salvadoran food and stories by Salvadorans for all. Abuelitas and mamas, are the north star of SalviSoul; here we radically focus on uplifting their work, their dedication to Salvadoran foodways, their stories and of course, their sazon through recipes. Protecting, preserving and practicing these ways is what SalviSoul is all about.
Meet The Founder
Karla T. Vasquez created SalviSoul in 2015. After wanting to cook her grandmother’s food, but having no written recipe and few Salvadoran cookbooks, Karla created SalviSoul, a Salvadoran cookbook storytelling project focused on recipe documentation, cultural memory, and intergenerational healing for the Salvadoran diaspora.
With experiences as a food writer, recipe developer, food stylist, food justice advocate, food historian and culinary instructor she has used her skills to uplift the work of SalviSoul. She holds a degree in Journalism and completed her culinary training at The New School of Cooking.
Her writing has been published by The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, Eater LA., KCET among others. Her recipe development work can be seen in Food & Wine, Serious Eats, Buzzfeed Tasty and Tastemade.
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Karla T. Vasquez founded SalviSoul to bring a dedicated Salvadoran cookbook by and for Salvadorans to fill the void in the market. The SalviSoul Cookbook written by Karla is slated to release in the Fall of 2023 published by Ten Speed Press.
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