Her story: It started on the fútbol pitch — the soccer field for the uninitiated. Lidia Gomez a few years ago began selling homemade tamales and pupusas out of ice-filled coolers that she and her ...

For a decade, La Praviana served up authentic Salvadoran cooking — a rarity in this town — from a neat-as-a-pin storefront on South Broadway. Kyle Wagner reviewed it soon after it opened, and raved ...