Bolivia's Flavor

BOLIVIA’S FLAVOR

PIQUE MACHO: ONE OF THE BEST DISHES OF OUR COUNTRY.

SINGANI CASA REAL “ROSSO” a different Fast food restaurant

QUINOA’S AND ITS BENEFITS FOR US

INTERVIEW: THE WISTUPIKU’S FAMILY

REVIEW: “THE ALJIBE” OPENED THEIR DOORS FOR US

Bolivia’s Facts Sweet things make you feel hungry The Chuño Copacabana’s tourism RECIPES: ARROZ CON LECHE AND BUÑUELOS

CONTENTS

PIQUE MACHO ………………………………………3 QUINOA´S BENEFITS ……………………………….5 SINGANI CASA REAL ……………………………… 8

SWEET RECIPES …………………………………….. 9

ROSSO FAST FOOD………………………………….11 ÍNTERVIEW ………………………………………….13 (THE WISTUPIKU´S FAMILY) BOLIVIA´S FACTS ………………………………… 16 REVIEW ………………………………………….…. 19 (EL ALJIBE)

EDITORIAL

In this occasion we would like to

This magazine shows the passion

introduce the first number of our

for Bolivian kitchen in other

magazine‌ in which we are going

aspects like good hygiene, product

to show you some Bolivian dishes

quality, and also that people in the

that stand out, showing in each

area

one

experiences listen in the interviews

of

the

pages

selected

can

talk

about

their

information and lived images.

we are going to make.

Our purpose is to show general

In our magazine we propose

population the value of Bolivian

different meals with easy sweet

dishes and ingredients because it

recipes to make at home alone or

is very important to know de

with the loved ones and enjoy

essence that makes every plate

what we love the most: FOOD.

unique.

We hope to be useful and practical

This magazine reflects that true

and that you can enjoy it with the

love that food lover experience

same attention that was made.

every time they take a bite.

STAFF: Edition: Mariana Mariscal Writing: Mariana Mariscal/Natalia Rivero Photography: Mariana Mariscal/Natalia Rivero August,2015

ARTICLES Pique Macho, one of the best dishes of our country.

Bolivian people, especially the ones who were born in Cochabamba or live there LOVE TO EAT and in big quantities.

You can find infinity of delicious dishes, but we think one of the favorites is the PIQUE MACHO a glorious elaboration, making your senses be all connected.

Many people say the Pique Macho was created after some fly attendants and pilots

Nowadays is a really popular dish.

arrived to the city of Cochabamba after a late flight‌ They were hungry so they

The Pique Macho is an elaboration made

looked up for something to eat, the lady

with chopped beef, fried potatoes, sausage,

who at that time sold some fast food in a

tomatoes, onions, Bolivian chili (locoto),

small store only had left overs of beef, a

boiled eggs and cheese.

salad made with tomatoes and onions, some potatoes, locoto and beer; so she mixed everything for them to eat.

Some people cooks it dry, without the juice with all the flavors (still great).

While others cook this dish with beer that we think, is the key for that special and unique flavor that this Pique has.

Because this plate has a generous amount of products in it, it’s meant to be eaten by more than one person. But if you are a food lover, you can always eat it alone.

Because it is a famous, in Santa Cruz there are so many places were we can find a Pique Macho, and we recommend you to take a look and eat it, whenever you go:

El Prado La Guitarra Irish Pub Mi Cholita Fridolin Don Fricase…. And many, many more places.

It is a dish that you can make at home or you can eat in another place and you won’t regret it.

There are many different ways to cook the Pique Macho, without losing its essence. At the end you’ll know it’s a Pique.

FACT: This dish goes great with a cold grass of beer.

Quinoa’s benefits

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The quinoa is a one of the most important seeds your body needs because of its health benefits and its nutritional properties. This seed comes from The Andes and it is really reach in vitamins and minerals.

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Quinoa’s Properties:

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It has a high level of proteins (23%) .

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Composed by Minerals and vitamins.

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It’s rich in amino acids, helping the brain develop.

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It’s rich in Omega 6.

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Soluble and unsoluble fiber.

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It has a low glycemic rate.

Quinoa’s Benefits 1.- Get skinny while eating light and healthy.

2.- Take care of the cholesterol levels.

3.- Great for the sporty people.

4.- Antirust.

5.- Good for celiac people.

6.- Takes care of your body.

7.- Hydrates your skin.

8.- Helps to reduce migraines.

9.- Makes the hair stronger.

10.- Anti-stress product.

As told before, don’t be afraid to try this delicious cereal, is super tasty and super healthy for your body. Eat it in soups, salads and also desserts. What are you waiting for?

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Singani CASA REAL The Singani is an alcoholic beverage very

Started the first industrialized operation of

popular in Tarija and well known all

distillation near Tarija.

around Bolivia.

This experience allowed Casa Real to

The Agro industrial from the Valley

stablish their Singani as the top of Bolivia.

society is the company that elaborates the

This line (Casa Real) includes different

Casa Real products. Founded in 1981 by

types of singani:

Luis Granier and his family. Him and his family have a beautiful life story in the production of wines and singanis. An experience

of

three

generations

that

initiated in 1925 when Julio Ortiz Linares

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Black Label (Great

15 years anniversary Singani Don Lucho: A limited edition produced with the best grapes selection. It has a triple distillation and repose. It has muscatel (kind of grape) fragrances.

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Red

Label:

A

Singani):A

traditional beverage.

spirituous beverage,

Great to drink it

distillated of the best

mixed with soda or

wine

fruit juice.

made

Muscatel

with from

Alexandria grapes.

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Blue

Label:

It’s

great to mix it with other

beverages

Through the years, the wine cellar has grown. It has the capacity for more than five million litters. Every year the Casa Real installation produces almost 2 million Singani bottles and 40 thousand bottles of wine.

The products that Casa Real offers are really loved in Bolivia and they are also exported to the rest of the world.

SWEET RECIPES Buñuelos (donuts) with honey Ingredients: 

2 cups of warm water

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4 tablespoons of fresh yeast

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2 tablespoons of sugar

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1 teaspoon of salt

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4 eggs

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4 cups of all purpose flour

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2 cups of vegetable oil

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1 cup of sugar cane honey

Step by Step:

4. Place the Buñuelos into a

1. In a bowl, add ¼ cup of warm water, yeast, sugar and let it rest for about five minutes.

2. Add the rest of the water, the salt, eggs and mix it while you add the flour. Let it rest Until the dough gets bigger

3. Grab a little of

pan with hot oil

dough with the

until they turn

tips of the finger

light brown. Take

(they have to be

them out and

wet) and stretch

place them in a

the dough giving

plate with

it a round form

absorbing paper.

with a hole in the middle.

5. Serve them with some honey on the top. You can eat this Buñuelos hot or cold.

“Arroz con leche” This sweet recipe will blow your mind and will make you fall in love with desserts all over again.

Ingredients: 

4 cups of milk

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4 tablespoons of sugar

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1 cup of rice

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1 tablespoon of cinnamon powder

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1 ½ cup of evaporated milk

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1 ½ cup of condensed milk

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1 cinnamon stick

Step by Step: 1. Pour the mil in a pot and add the rice (well washed).

2. Cook it with the cinnamon stick until it boils.

3. Add the evaporated milk and the condensed milk. Let it cook until the mix looks like a cream. Add the sugar.

4. Serve the “arroz con leche” with cinnamon powder on top or with a cinnamon stick.

Article

“Rosso” Panini’s Restaurant

Rosso is a fast food restaurant located in the city of Santa Cruz, Remanzo II Street.

This restaurant was opened in May 2013 by two young visionaries: Andy Caballero and Luis Ruiz who still study the culinary arts.

Andy and Luis (the owners) really love cooking and sharing their food with the people that’s why they started with this restaurant.

Their menu is very simple but also very tasty: Steak and chicken sandwiches (the simple ones), milanesa (chicken breast breaded and fried) sandwiches, burgers,

This fast food restaurant is not the typical

club sandwiches and the special dish

one, because they not only offer paninis,

PIQUE MACHO (tomatoes, onions, beef

sandwiches and burgers, they also offer

and spices sauteed in a pan with fries and

dishes from this country.

cheese) that is one of the favorites.

They always work with only the freshest and best selected vegetables. Also, they use chili peppers from the city like “aji camba” for one spicy sauce with ginger.

This type of peppers makes their food have a unique taste without losing the bolivian touch.

People love eating at Rosso’s because of

customer service and because the food is

its high quality, the environment, the

delicious.

Interview

Wist’upiku is a Bolivian company created

have, the company has grown this past

in 1939 by Jose Luis Solis and his family,

years.

dedicated to the elaboration of patties and traditional pastry of Bolivia.

For the 75th anniversary of Wist’upiku, Wilson Ramirez (grandson of the owner)

With the dedication of its workers and the

the company’s manager answer some

high quality that an establishment needs to

questions about this magnificent company

Wilson Ramirez (on the left) WHY DO YOU THIK WHIST’UPIKU STILL HAS AN ORGANIZED UNION SINCE IT HAS STARTED? It’s because of the family union and the goals that the company has stablished since the beginning. I think we are the first family that has accomplished everything that has been proposed.

HOW IS GOING THE PLANIFICATION OF BECOMING A BIG FOOD INDUSTRY? We started as a small food business, and now we are in 3 cities of the country. This year, we are building an industrial plant that will allow us to manage our line of frozen products.

These products will have the major quality and the greatest taste and flavor which are the principal characteristics of Wist’upiku.

WHY WIST’UPIKU HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE ONE OF THE BEST FRANCHISES? Wist’upiku is one of the companies with further growth. It not only has the 2 initial products (cheese patty and the spicy one); now we have more than sixteen lines of products that allowed us to enter to new markets, new investments and new projects… It’s not easy but we made it.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR THIS 2015?

As I said before, we are building our food plant with the highest technologies. Wist’upiku is always innovated and it’s a consolidated brad because of our loyal customers.

WHAT ADVICES DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE FOOD ENTREPENEURS? I think the youngsters have the gold opportunity to jump to the business. They need to have commitment and the backup of the state.

WHICH FAMILY VALUES HAVE BEEN THE FOUNDATION OF THE WIST’UPIKU PHILOSOPHY? The loyalty, the respect, the love for the family and the brand have make us be who we are.

For more information go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leaqMZ-4khg

Why do sweet things make you feel hungry?

There are four things that go through your brain when you eat sugar and that’s why this kind of food makes you feel hungry.

1.- When you are stressed, sad or you have anxiety, your appetite grows.

2. - Addiction: High consume of sugar creates changes on the dopamine levels and also in the behaving of the person.

3. - When the brain lacks out of sugar, the eating desire increases.

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THE POWERFUL CHUÑO The “chuño” is a dry potato from Los Andes. It’s the result of the dehydration of the potatoes in the sun.

One of the most important products of the Indian’s nutrition.

FACT: A classic technic people use to peal the chuño is with their feet.

They set foot on this dry potato, that way the peal will fell off.

Copacabana, a perfect destination.

Copacabana is a Bolivian town on the shore of the Lake Titicaca. It’s a destination for tourism in Bolivia because of its charms like the lake’s view and all that this town offers.

Every year more than 25 thousand tourists arrive to the town. Most of them for the holy week on april.

The view is beautiful.

Food in Copacabana is so delicious, cheap and fresh you won’t believe it.

The lake’s trout is the best of the best.

Copacabana is a perfect place to visit if you want to relax and enjoy.

Review “The ALJIBE”

The Aljibe is a Resto-museum located in the Potosi and Ñuflo de Chavez Street, downtown Santa Cruz.

It’s a traditional Bolivian food restaurant I had the privilege to try firs the famous

with a beautiful antique touch.

The flavors, the smells, the textures, the sensations of the food make you feel like you are in grandmas home. This food remembered

me

of

my

beautiful

childhood.

“Majao

de

charque”.

A

creamy

combination of dry meat with rice and the delicious spices from Santa Cruz, like the Urucú (a seed that brings that orange color to the preparation), fried bananas and a well fried egg. That experience I had, was

So simple, yet so different from the rest.

one of the best.

The food… Oh, the food! Very tasty and

My beverage was a “Mocochinchi”, very

very traditional. Their menu is long, but

sweet and a good refresher. Made with a

each dish is worth it. From soups, principal

sweet dried peach and burned sugar that

dishes, desserts to a vegetarian variety. I

makes the characteristic color and flavor.

was fascinated.

Then for dessert, because who doesn’t love something sweet after a salty food? I had the “Cheese and manjar blanco”. I feel in love

with

this

weird

and

beautiful

combination. Who would know that cheese and a this creamy, toffee like sweet were good together? Well, I was fascinated of the texture and the flavor. I really recommend this dessert for cheese lovers like me.

The environment is really quiet and cozy, the music made me feel like I was home Their service is quite good; the waiters are careful and super helpful. They helped me with my final decision, and I have no regrets at all.

I really recommend this restaurant for the whole family, a group of friends, a couple of lovers or just one person who loves to eat well. The food is delicious, the atmosphere is relaxing and cozy, the feeling you get has no name. Your stomach will be grateful.