Guava is a bridge between past and future for immigrant cafe and bakery owners

Johan Balaguera remembers guava like it was yesterday. As a child in Colombia, he would travel by bus toward Bogotá, stopping for guava and cheese along the way. Years later, he returned to Colombia hoping to conjure up that nostalgia. The ingredients hadn’t changed, but the memory was harder to reproduce. “Even now that I […]
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