Suspiro limeño means “sigh of Lima” — the name comes from the poet José Gálvez, whose wife Amparo Ayarza created the dessert and described its texture as so light it dissolved like a sigh. The name stuck and the dessert became one of the most recognized sweets in Peruvian criolla cuisine — the mestizo culinary […]

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Flan’s lineage runs from ancient Rome through medieval Spain and into every Latin American country that came under Spanish colonial rule. The Romans made a savory egg custard called tyropatina that used honey as a sweetener — the sweet version developed through medieval Arab and European cooking, and the Spanish carried it to the Americas […]

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