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Hi Everyone! My name is Marisa La Piana. As I said in class, I grew up in the Bay Area in Nothern California where we have a variety of different restaurants that offer food from around the world. I am Sicilian on my paternal side and so at home we enjoy a healthy dose of simple carbohydrates- pasta, bread, pizza and more pasta, bread and pizza. Personaly, I was a vegetarian for 7 years and now eat chicken, turkey and some kinds of fish- my favorite is salmon! I guess I have just never really been a meat person. Being from California, I love fruit and we have an amazing assortment to choose from! Grapes are one of my favorites. I also make smoothies with low fat yogurt and fruit. I spent the past year on a gap year traveling around Central and South America. Rice and beans became my comfort food in Costa Rica! Bolivian food is not my favorite but it was interesting to see what people ate and where. Some communtiies up in the high Andes only really have access to potatos and alpaca. The typical dish in La Paz has a soup as the first course and then rice, cabbage, tomatos and meat or chicken as the second course. One thing I did enjoy was the Andean power-grain quinoa, it is delicious and gives you lots of energy.