Flourtown woman bringing Hispanic heritage to area with melting pot of flavors in her home-cooked meals

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The climate exterior is chilly, wet and gross, so that you might need a yearning for some heat, consolation meals. As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month, CBS3’s Vittoria Woodill takes us to Flourtown in Montgomery County to fulfill a lady who’s serving a melting pot of flavors via her home-cooked meals. 

As Karla Salinas prepares pumpkin to make a piping scorching pot of Peruvian seafood chowder, she talked passionately about how her dwelling of Peru is a melting pot of cultures. 

“It is not simply rice and beans Peruvians, we’re stews, stir-fries, pasta,” Karla mentioned, “Everybody has a combination, everyone there’s just some Peruvians which are 100% Peruvian.”

She says that’s what makes the tradition so “wealthy.” 

It is these wealthy flavors she’s delivered to Flourtown at Karla’s Kitchen. Her household recipes are for the neighborhood to seize and go. 

She opened her restaurant in 2016, however at first, her flavors did not fairly catch on. 

“I used to be doing genuine Peruvian and other people did not prefer it an excessive amount of, so I keep in mind being annoyed, like what am I doing right here? I did not go to highschool. We’re immigrants, however I like to prepare dinner,” Karla mentioned. 

It is a love she shares along with her mom, who was a cater in Lima. Her mother engrained in her mixing cultures brings individuals collectively. 

“My mom mentioned to me, you are not cooking for Peruvians, your cooking for Individuals,” Karla mentioned, “Cook dinner their meals, however together with your taste.” 

From there it was historical past. 

“The neighborhood is the perfect,” Karla mentioned. “They’ve turn into a part of my life and I turn into a part of their life too.”

Eyewitness Information is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs till Saturday, October 15. Click on here to take a look at our tales. 

Vittoria Woodill

The versatile Vittoria Woodill seems on CBS3 Eyewitness Information staff as characteristic reporter on quite a lot of segments, together with “Style with Tori,” which supplies viewers a tour of the area’s nice eats and the individuals behind them.