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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Chajá was created in the 1920s at the Hotel Las Familias in Paysandú, a city in northwestern Uruguay on the Argentine border, by a pastry chef named Orlando Castellano. It is named after the chajá — a large, crested bird native to the wetlands of Uruguay and Argentina, known for its light, buoyant flight. The […]

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