“You just healed my hand with an arepa con queso,” Mirabel Madrigal tells her mother, Julieta, in the movie “Encanto,” while holding a cheesy arepa – a round corn cake. “I healed your hand with love,” ...

I relished eating a Colombian arepa for the first time ever at Latino Bar & Grill in Green. The South American arepa, handmade at the restaurant with cornmeal, is considerably thicker than the usual ...

Durante mucho tiempo se ha librado el debate gastronómico sobre el origen de la arepa. Muchos aseguran que es venezolana y otros que su preparación es de origen colombiano. Lo cierto es que este ...

A well-made arepa may be more comforting than a plate of warm cookies or your mother’s meatloaf. Really, these compact disc-sized corn pockets should replace ice cream as the official breakup food.

Arepas are served with most meals in Colombia and are popular in Venezuela, too. The classic Colombian kind are made with milled corn, while arepas de choclo, named after the Quechua word for maize, ...

Both countries claim the cornbread as their own. But where does it really come from? And who makes it better? Gustavo Zapata, a chef at the Sancho Paisa restaurant chain in Medellín, Colombia, ...

Arepas got recalled by a Lake Worth company after the company discovered a packaging mistake with potentially the ultimate consequences. Villa Nueva’s recall notice says Arepas La Mejor, 25-ounce bags ...

Food can shed a great deal of light on a place's culture, and the arepa is no exception. It's an iconic South American street food that has countless preparation methods, and each has its own story.

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Along Sepulveda Boulevard ...