We should've sent everybody home with a box of sugared goodies from La Gloria in Mexicantown.

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His family lives in the village of La Gloria in the state of Veracruz, where a flu outbreak was reported on April 2.

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At La Gloria, a bright new restaurant alongside the soon-to-open San Antonio branch of the Culinary Institute of America, I'm given a taste of chilli's genesis.

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Journalist Gloria Carrasco reported from La Paz, Bolivia, and CNN's Fernando del Rincon and Mariano Castillo contributed to his report from Atlanta.

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