The cuisine of the Latin American diaspora can be found all over Denver. To taste the differences is to understand how countries, cultures, and immigrants to this nation have taken foods common in the largely Spanish-speaking continent and splintered them into their own special creations. Take the empanada. There are varieties of it all over the world: meat pies or pasties (pronounced pass-tees) in the UK, salteñas in Bolivia, calzones in Italy.