The sight of freshly cooked pupusas warms my soul. I’m the child of Salvadoran parents, so pupusas were served for every occasion. Breakfast, lunch, dinner—they’re an all-day kind of food. Mexicans ...

If any dish can play the part of humble immigrant food, it’s the pupusa, the savory masa cake from El Salvador that practically feeds the nation morning, noon and night. When unadorned and arranged on ...

Welcome back to Dining On A Dime a bi-weekly feature in which Lizbeth Scordo surveys LA's cheap eats—often obscure, ethnic, unsung restaurants—proving that dining on a dime is alive, well, and quite ...

From the South Shore to Huntington Station and the East End, every neighborhood seems to have a Latino deli or a homestyle restaurant serving pupusas, the irresistible corn masa cakes. Stuffed with ...

Empanadas seem to reign supreme among Latin American pastry, but if you’re sleeping on Salvadoran pupusas, let this serve as your wakeup call. Skip the Avianca flight to San Salvador, and get your fix ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — There are four ways to eat a pupusa. Just in case you don't know what one is: pupusa is a specialty of El Salvador. A soft white corn masa patty, stuffed with cheese and other ...

“It’s just better at the Salvadorean Bakery.” That’s what my friend (a pupusa connoisseur) says every time she samples a pupusa made anywhere else. While my pupusa exposure is a tad more limited, I’d ...

This video is no longer available. An El Salvadoran staple is being celebrated this Sunday on National Pupusa Day — and a D.C. restaurant owner who’s planning to serve up thousands of pupusas in the ...

Pupusas are El Salvador’s answer to casual, cheap, easy eating. Handmade with masa or nixtamal, they’re stuffed with your choice of filling, maybe cheese, chicharrón (shredded or ground pork), bean, ...

The pupusa has travelled a long journey to the ranks of D.C.'s favorite iconic foods. The dish made its way from El Salvador in the 1980s, brought in by an influx of people leaving amid civil war in ...