Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

‘In South America there are meat, vegetable or
cheese pasties of every possible fi lling but our Bolivian
salteña is the only one that contains a seductive sauce,
as if invented by Circe, the sorceress who seduced
Odysseus with secret and forbidden delicacies.’
—Ramon Rocha Monroy, Bolivian novelist and
Epicurean, from ‘Let’s Nationalize the Salteña,’
El Juguete Rabioso, 19 February 2005.

THE FOOD

OF BOLIVIA

CHAPTER 6