I am inspired to write the story of LA YAPA and how this little quinoa company became part of the Café Gratitude Community!
LA YAPA (meaning: a gift of gratitude) is a family-owned business, started by Tania Petricevic, a Bolivian-Guatemalan. Having resided in the US since she was 18, Tania always missed Bolivia and dreamed of going home one day. Life stepped in, however; she married, had a child and finally decided that if she was really going to maintain the bridge that connected to Bolivia, she would begin to promote Royal Quinoa into California. And that is how we, at Café Gratitude, met Tania and LA YAPA and decided to introduce the fair-trade, organic item.
Royal quinoa is power-packed super grain (it boasts the highest content of protein 
after amerynth). Quinoa once fueled the Incan empire as it's main staple, along with Potato (potatoes originate from South America as well) The Incan Empire was the largest empire of the Pre-Colombian Americas so you can just imagine what the markets must have looked like so long ago! There are several theories as to how large the Incan Empire was, but at one time it bustled with 37 million people.
LOVE is in the air! We just returned from Maui where we married our “Aya” and “Anis” to one another. It was such a sweet and perfect collection of a community that goes all out for LOVE. Marriage always gives us the opportunity to stand up and say YES, I am for LOVE! I am for couple using their relationship as an opportunity to awakend! Yes, Yes, Yes!