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Category: Bolivia

How coca leaf is taking fine dining to a higher level

29/10/201903/11/2019 Sorrel

(Fine Dining Lovers) A noble plant with millenary nutritional and medicinal values as well as deep ancestral ties, negative press about Erythroxylum coca has long outweighed the positive. Blame disparaging headlines on cocaine alkaloid, the pharmacologically active component found in fresh leaves that is extracted to produce cocaine. But, good news is on the horizon as […]

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Gustu’s latest culinary adventure at Salar de Uyuni salt flats

13/08/201906/09/2019 Sorrel

(Fine Dining Lovers) How is taking fine dining and gastronomy at 3,656 meters above the sea? Meet chef Marsia Taha from Gustu, now preparing meals at Kachi Lodge in Salar de Uyuni. First it broke the glass ceiling to become Bolivia’s first fine-dining restaurant that dealt with only Bolivian ingredients in an initiative spearheaded by Claus […]

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Catch me if you can: How the paiche plague in Bolivia’s Amazon is making its way onto menus

03/11/2018 Sorrel

(The Independent) It’s a suffocating afternoon in Carmen del Emero, Bolivia, but Nelo Yarari Alipaz is oblivious to the humidity and relentless buzzing. The community leader of this remote village in Bolivia’s Amazon – accessible only by a nine-hour boat ride – is ready to talk business with one of Bolivia’s top chefs, Marsia Taha, who […]

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