Whether you're looking for quick and easy snacks, a late-night bite or dessert, Des Moines has plenty of options on wheels. Here's 6 can't miss trucks: ...

-The Venezuelan arepa gets filled with whatever food you want. -The Colombian ones are more often used as an accompaniment to a meal. They are larger and flatter.

Arepas have been eaten for thousands of years, estimates Ocarina Castillo, 72, an anthropology professor who studies food at the Central University of Venezuela.

There diners can find arepas, empanadas, and cachapas at +58 Venezuelan food truck in Windsor Heights. Co-owners Lenin Rivas and Rafael Zabala make these dishes fresh as they’re ordered.

From the streets of Caracas to trendy eateries in New York, Paris and Tokyo, the arepa, a humble cornmeal flatbread, is riding a wave of Venezuelan emigration and feeding a craving for exotic and ...

Customers at Los Chamos, a Venezuelan restaurant chain known for its arepas, in Medellin, Colombia, where a mural shows Colombia on the left, with the words “my home,” and Venezuela on the ...

"It's only 10 people," she explains. "It's very private. I like to do it. In the workshop, I speak, I teach them, and I tell them stories about our country.

Arepas, a beloved, belly-filling Venezuelan food, are hand-sized toasted cornmeal patties, typically split and filled with savory deliciousness. In 2001, I taught English classes to Gomez in some ...

Previously CW Willis Family Farms’ restaurant, The Grill, before it closed June 10 to reopen as a new restaurant Former location of CW Willis Family Farms’ farmers market, The Market, which ...

In Venezuela, the cornmeal is very finely ground from pre-cooked corn. It’s called masarepa and is used to make arepas, empanada shells and other traditional dishes.

A Reina Pepiada arepa, left, and a Carne Mechada arepa at Venezuelan restaurant Todo Pasapalos in Dallas on Monday, June 24, 2024. (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) ...

There diners can find arepas, empanadas, and cachapas at +58 Venezuelan food truck in Windsor Heights. Co-owners Lenin Rivas and Rafael Zabala make these dishes fresh as they’re ordered.