Just like Proust had his madeleines and Salman Rushdie had his pickles, the association of identity, memory, and a different time can be related back to the foods that one ate as a child. Which is how Colombian national Nestor Taveras, who had a digital development agency with his brother, decided to open up Brands of Americas. For him the root cause for his enterprise was the same nostalgia conjured by Proustian madelines and Rushdian pickles. Given that 57.5 million Hispanic Americans live in the US right now, the time seemed right to build up Brands of Americas, an ecommerce platform…

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