This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are obsessed with eating, drinking, and buying right now. My dad is from Buenos Aires, but even though I spent much of ...

In South Florida, when you say “Havana,” you obviously think “Cuba.” But in Argentina, when you say “Havanna,” you think of a food company. That food company just opened its first U.S. location, right ...

During the holiday season, it was hard to appreciate the wonder of the single cookie: the kind of cookie that comes in a pretty wrapper and when laid bare stares back quietly with the promise to ...

In fact, there are cafe chains that specialize in serving alfajores, most notably Havanna alfajores in Argentina and in Peru, La Casa del Alfajor. According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the ...

Elizer Botbol and Diana Ponte stand in front of a wall lined with shelves full of cookies, ceramics and jars of dulce de leche. They smile as Botbol holds extends his arm to take a selfie of the pair.

Alfajores are synonymous with Argentina – the biggest producer and consumer – where they are as central to the national culinary identity as steak and Malbec. Chocolatier Maria Romero's eyes gleamed ...

There are many delicious incarnations of alfajores but the crisp meringue icing makes these among the best. There are many delicious incarnations of the alfajor; this version coated with crisp ...