In The Big Easy, Food Vendors Create A Little Honduras : The Salt Thanks to a quirk of history, New Orleans has long had a Honduran population, but it exploded post-Katrina. Nearly a decade later ...

We also tried the baleadas, popular snacks in Honduras that are similar to Mexican quesadillas. The regular baleada ($2.50) was a flour tortilla folded over refried beans, soft cheese and crema.

Thanks to a quirk of history — and a love of bananas — New Orleans has had a Honduran population for more than a century. But that population exploded after Hurricane Katrina, when the jobs needed to ...