An essential Southern appetizer, cream cheese with pepper jelly, gets a huge flavor upgrade. Smoked cream cheese is intense and savory—and a definite way to impress everyone.

Vasquez, who was born in El Salvador ... a griddled corn or rice flour tortilla that is filled typically is filled with cheese, beans, loroco (an edible flower) and/or pork.

Vasquez dedicates the cookbook to her ... or riguas (a sweet corn cake wrapped in plantain leaves, filled with cheese or ...