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Before there was this Peruvian restaurant, which opened at the beginning of summer, there were Claudia Berroa’s flans.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2020

The flans come in several flavors, including passion fruit, coffee and, for fall, pumpkin.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2020

The Berroas moved to the Bronx in 2007, and for Thanksgiving that year churned out 300 pie-size flans in their apartment’s galley kitchen.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2014

So I go up to the next guy, and he takes me over to the flans and the puddings.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2011

My mouth, for instance, craved sweets, figs in their heavy syrup, coconut candy, soft golden flans.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez