Food & Drink

In 1880 a small group of British railway engineers laying track through the Bolivian Andes between Uyuni and La Paz ran out of gin. The supply ship from Hamburg had not arrived, and Bolivian customs at the time was in no rush to release it. The engineers, who liked their gin and ginger ale at … Read more

Ask a Bolivian what the national dish is and you will get a different answer in every city. La Paz says salteña. Cochabamba says silpancho. Sucre says salteña, but the spicy chicken one. People in Santa Cruz quietly point at majadito and let the highlanders argue. The real answer is that Bolivian food is not … Read more