{"id":107687,"date":"2021-08-12T22:59:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T02:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107687"},"modified":"2021-08-12T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T02:59:51","slug":"semana-de-sabor-hispanic-restaurant-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107687","title":{"rendered":"Semana de Sabor &#8211; Hispanic Restaurant Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>SEMANA DE SABOR<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce presents Hispanic Restaurant Week to promote Latinx\/Latino\/Afro-Latino\/Hispanic restaurants and raise awareness of Hispanic Heritage Month, this will take place September 15-21, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley, PA\u00a0\u2013 The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, has created an initiative to help Latino, Afro-Latino, Latinx, Hispanic-owned restaurants market their food services while kicking off Hispanic Heritage month! While this week is open to all Hispanic Restaurants, we do have a list of restaurants participating with specials that can be found on our Hispanic Chamber of the Greater Lehigh Valley webpage:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehispanicchamber.org\/\">www.thehispanicchamber.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HISTORICAL CONTEXT:\u00a0\u201cThe timing of Hispanic Heritage Month coincides with the Independence Day celebrations of several Latin American nations. September 15 was chosen as the kickoff because it coincides with the Independence Day celebrations of five \u201cCentral American neighbors,\u201d as Johnson called them\u2014Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Those five nations declared their independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.\u201d \u2013History.com<\/p>\n<p>Semana de Sabor, Hispanic Restaurant Week will focus on Hispanic-owned and operated by entrepreneurs that serve diverse Hispanic food in the Lehigh Valley. There are no fees to participate and restaurants do not have to be members of The Chamber. The goal of the week is to help bring awareness to the diverse array of Hispanic food establishments in the Lehigh Valley and highlight their heritage during this celebratory month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to help boost business for the Hispanic-owned restaurants in the community,\u201d said Azalea Chac\u00f3n, Coordinator, Diversity Councils of The Chamber. \u201cWe are also using this as an opportunity to raise awareness of Hispanic Heritage Month and its history. It\u2019s long overdue, we need to transfer the energy that was used to celebrate Cinco de Mayo to Hispanic Heritage Month, and spread the love amongst all Hispanic cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Food lovers across the Lehigh Valley can find the list of Hispanic Owned Restaurants and any specials here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehispanicchamber.org\/\">www.thehispanicchamber.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0Wednesday, September 15-21, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Location: Lehigh Valley, PA<\/p>\n<p>The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s mission is to support, strengthen, and raise awareness of the Hispanic business community by focusing on: Advocacy, Business, and Community Development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAzalea Chacon<br \/>\nCoordinator, Business &amp; Diversity Councils<br \/>\nGreater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/\">https:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; SEMANA DE SABOR The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce presents Hispanic Restaurant Week to promote Latinx\/Latino\/Afro-Latino\/Hispanic restaurants and raise awareness of Hispanic Heritage Month, this will take place September 15-21, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Semana de Sabor &#8211; Hispanic Restaurant Week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/hispanic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}