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What a Salvadoran corn cake and a Chilean empanada have in common in September
Congress set the 31-day observance around seven national anniversaries, and U.S. appetites have since caught up with the calendar.
- Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 through October 15 because Congress aligned the 31-day observance with the independence anniversaries of seven nations across Central America, Mexico, and Chile.
- President Reagan signed Public Law 100-402 in 1988 after Senator Paul Simon's bill passed Congress, formally establishing the month-long celebration to recognize these national milestones.
- Featured culinary traditions, such as El Salvador's pupusas, possess histories that do not fit neatly within the 31-day window; El Salvador's pupusas trace traditions to Indigenous cooking before Spanish colonization.
- Since the law passed, American appetites have caught up with the calendar; Birria has grown roughly 350% on U.S. restaurant menus over four years.
- Each dish carries unique roots ranging from ancient Indigenous techniques used around 600 AD to specific origin stories like La Loca, who created her dish around 1914 while selling food at baseball games in Granada.
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What a Salvadoran corn cake and a Chilean empanada have in common in September
The food of Hispanic Heritage Month has more food history than most people expect, from a corn dish with roots in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cooking to ... Read moreThe post What a Salvadoran corn cake and a Chilean empanada have in…
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