In Buenos Aires, I had an amazing pastrami empanada at El Chiri de Villa Kreplaj, a restaurant that combines Ashkenazi, Sephardic and other Jewish foods with Argentinian favorites. The memory of that ...

Empanadas are fried, baked or air-fried hand pies that have either a savory or sweet filling, which is very popular in South America. They are also known as empanadillas (or pastelillos), depending on ...

Ten years ago, Fuego Bistro had 13 tables. Today, Jeff Ward's central Phoenix restaurant has 32. Why? Ward credits the “best kitchen staff in the country." Four chefs, all brothers, have worked in the ...

Sonora has two distinct cuisines, one based on the bounty of the land, the other born of the bounty of the sea. The mountainous east is the land of roaming herds of cattle, wild greens grown in river ...

Over the years, Santos has made a commitment to himself—and those who try his food—to honor his Mexican heritage by infusing the familiar flavors and culinary techniques he grew up with into his ...

Empanadas — those familiar, golden, hand-held pies — are popular throughout Central and South America, from Mexico to the southernmost tip of Argentina. But in Chile, they are something of an ...

Lidia Zambrano-Madera and her husband. Lidia runs Lidia's Empanadas based in Troy. A stack of empanadas from Schenectady's Alotta Empanada. Empanadas from Alotta Empanada in Schenectady. Lidia ...