Luis Navia

Cocinando con el Ingeniero Luis Navia

Here you will find the family heritage Latin recipes that represent the healthy, the typical, the Creole of the Valle del Cauca (Colombia), where the author was born and grew up until his adolescence, within a beautiful family that represents the autochthonous, the original of a region of contrasts. Valle del Cauca gastronomy has its history since before the Spanish conquest, and of course new guidelines are set that have already imprinted what we qualify as typical of the entire country with indigenous influences, local products, Spanish cooking techniques, and even a medium Arab touch, Lebanese, and also African. The Colombian food that we know today and that we call typical is a mixture of the best of each culture and represents them all. Here the Engineer Navia teaches us to balance our body energy schemes based on what we eat daily. It helps us to maintain a healthy diet, based on the inheritance of those recipes that we have received from our ancestors, almost always transmitted verbally but not least important because it represents exclusively 100% natural flavors bringing happiness in healthy meals and recipes that for centuries brings us a lot of freedom and energy balance of culture and customs beautifully integrated with happy and friendly people who share and bring these delicacies to the world.