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Hoja santa (Piper auritum) is an aromatic herb with a large, heart-shaped, velvety leaf which grows in the tropics of Latin America. The name hoja santa means “sacred leaf” in Spanish, but it goes by ...

Although Adán Medrano spent much of his childhood in his mother’s Central Texas kitchen, surrounded by the smells of sweet pork empanadas baking in the oven and nopales sautéed with onion, there was ...

You may not have even noticed the dark green, velvety heart-shaped leaf as large as your hand peeking out from underneath a cheese platter. That’s one of its more benign uses, as a natural doily, ...