IF you want to know where to go for the best Mexican food or you want to learn the famous Flamenco dance, then put on your reading glasses and take a look at The Latin Connection, Port Elizabeth’s first Latin e-newsletter!
Natalia Venter, owner of the Hablas Español Spanish Language School, is the brains behind this e-newsletter, which landed in various inboxes for the first time in January of this year.
“This e-newsletter will be e-mailed quarterly and will have information on all the various, exciting cultural Latin events happening in the city, as well as contact details of Latin-related products,” she explained.
Each quarterly newsletter which is in Spanish and English will also contain easy to do Spanish recipes, as well as information on Latin countries, where readers might consider making their next holiday destination.
“The purpose of this newsletter,” Venter said, “is to bring the Latin community and those interested in it together and to share our passion and love for all things Latin.”
In the first edition of The Latin Connection the featured country is Bolivia, where Venter originates from.
She moved to Port Elizabeth after she fell in love with and married her hursband, Ricky. She then started Hablas Español in 2003 and has since seen numerous students graduate from her Spanish programme.
- Anyone who wishes to be on Venter’s database to receive the quarterly newsletter, can send an e-mail with your name and e-mail address to info@hablasespanol.co.za.
In the first edition of The Latin Connection, readers can learn how to make their own, delicious La Sangria!
Here is the recipe:
La Sangria
(Preparation time: 10 minutes)
Ingredients:
1 litre of rosé wine
2 peaches
2 oranges
One apple
A stick of cinnamon
80 gr sugar
Method:
Wash all the fruit, apart from the oranges, and cut into little cube pieces.
In a jug pour the rosé wine. Add the fruit, and squeeze the juice of the two oranges in.
Add the sugar and the cinnamon stick.
Mix everything together and leave to cool in the refridgerator for a few hours.