Torta negra is Argentina’s Christmas cake — a dense, dark fruit cake made from dried fruits soaked in rum or brandy, mixed with spices, and baked into a long-keeping loaf. It arrived in Argentina through the waves of European immigration that shaped the country’s food culture from the mid-nineteenth century onward. British settlers brought their […]

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Pastafrola is the Argentine name for crostata — the Italian shortcrust lattice tart that arrived in Argentina with the massive wave of Italian immigration between 1880 and 1930. At its peak this migration brought over two million Italians to Argentina, making Italian the second most spoken language in the country for several decades and permanently […]

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