{"id":7963,"date":"2026-09-24T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felipan.com\/?page_id=7963"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:56:45","slug":"mi-historia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/felipan.com\/en\/mi-historia\/","title":{"rendered":"My story"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.fh{--rojo:var(--global-palette1,#e30613);--tinta:var(--global-palette3,#000);--texto:var(--global-palette4,#4f4f4f);--suave:var(--global-palette6,#989898);--arena:var(--global-palette7,#ebe8e5);--blanco:var(--global-palette8,#f5f5f5);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;color:var(--texto);font-size:17px;line-height:1.7;max-width:720px;margin:0 auto;padding:24px 16px 64px}.fh *{box-sizing:border-box}.fh ul{margin-left:0!important;padding-left:0!important}.fh ul li{margin-left:0}.fh p{margin:0 0 1.1em}.fh-kicker{display:flex;align-items:center;gap:.5em;font-size:13px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.18em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--rojo);margin:0 0 12px}.fh-kicker::before,.fh-sec h3::before{content:\"\u2731\";font-size:1.1em;letter-spacing:0}.fh h2{font-family:inherit;font-size:clamp(32px,6vw,48px);line-height:1.1;font-weight:800;color:var(--tinta);margin:0 0 20px;letter-spacing:-.01em}.fh-lead{font-size:clamp(19px,2.6vw,22px);line-height:1.55;color:var(--tinta);font-weight:500;padding-bottom:32px;margin-bottom:40px!important;border-bottom:1px solid var(--arena)}.fh-sec{margin:0 0 48px}.fh-sec h3{display:flex;align-items:baseline;gap:.5em;font-family:inherit;font-size:22px;font-weight:800;color:var(--tinta);margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.3}.fh-sec h3::before{color:var(--rojo);font-size:.8em}.fh-sec h3 span{color:var(--rojo);font-weight:700}.fh-quote{margin:28px 0;padding:4px 0 4px 24px;border-left:3px solid var(--rojo);font-size:clamp(20px,3vw,24px);line-height:1.45;font-style:italic;font-weight:500;color:var(--tinta)}.fh-chips{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:8px;margin:16px 0 20px;padding:0;list-style:none}.fh-chips li{background:var(--blanco);border:1px solid var(--arena);border-radius:999px;padding:4px 14px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5}.fh-lugares{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(150px,1fr));gap:12px;margin:16px 0 20px;padding:0;list-style:none}.fh-lugares li{background:var(--blanco);border-radius:6px;padding:16px;border-top:3px solid var(--arena)}.fh-lugares li.fh-hoy{border-top-color:var(--rojo)}.fh-lugares b{display:block;color:var(--tinta);font-size:17px}.fh-lugares small{display:block;font-size:14px;line-height:1.45;color:var(--texto);margin-top:4px}.fh-lugares em{display:block;font-style:normal;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.1em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--rojo);margin-top:8px}.fh-linea{list-style:none;margin:16px 0 0;padding:0;border-left:2px solid var(--arena)}.fh-linea li{position:relative;padding:0 0 24px 24px}.fh-linea li:last-child{padding-bottom:0}.fh-linea li::before{content:\"\";position:absolute;left:-7px;top:.55em;width:12px;height:12px;border-radius:50%;background:var(--rojo)}.fh-linea b{display:block;color:var(--rojo);font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em}.fh-cierre{background:var(--blanco);border-radius:8px;padding:32px 28px;margin-top:8px}.fh-cierre p:last-child{margin:0}.fh-firma{font-size:clamp(22px,3.4vw,28px);font-weight:800;line-height:1.3;color:var(--tinta);margin-top:20px!important}.fh-firma span{color:var(--rojo)}@media(max-width:560px){.fh-cierre{padding:24px 20px}.fh-quote{padding-left:18px}}<\/style><div class=\"fh\"><p class=\"fh-kicker\">My story<\/p><h2>From bread in the hallways to Felipan<\/h2><p class=\"fh-lead\">I started baking bread in 2002. More than twenty years later I\u2019m still at it: finding ingredients, testing, getting it wrong, starting over, and sharing what comes out of the oven.<\/p><section class=\"fh-sec\"><h3><span>2002<\/span> The beginning<\/h3><p>I started baking when I became vegetarian, after taking up Raja Yoga meditation with Brahma Kumaris. I had studied a couple of semesters of film at Black Mar\u00eda and four semesters of Systems Engineering at Los Andes. I learned to cook in Putumayo, as a volunteer park ranger in La Paya.<\/p><p>But my palate was trained by my family from childhood. My parents always worked in kitchens, and from them I learned independence and entrepreneurship, perseverance and discipline.<\/p><blockquote class=\"fh-quote\">I didn\u2019t learn a single recipe from them, but my palate inherited what they knew, and what my uncles, aunts and grandmother knew.<\/blockquote><p>Becoming vegetarian opened up the world of vegetables, and I began researching where every ingredient came from.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"fh-sec\"><h3>How the name was born<\/h3><p>Friends became customers and took me to sell bread at their offices:<\/p><ul class=\"fh-chips\"><li>District Institute of Culture and Tourism<\/li><li>Ministry of Finance<\/li><li>Ministry of Education<\/li><li>Ministry of Transport<\/li><li>Banc\u00f3ldex<\/li><li>ProColombia<\/li><li>Corficolombiana<\/li><li>Ecopetrol<\/li><li>Asobancaria<\/li><li>DAPRE<\/li><li>Superservicios<\/li><\/ul><p>I walked the hallways with my breads, and that\u2019s where they named me <strong>Felipan<\/strong>.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"fh-sec\"><h3><span>2004<\/span> Educating the palate<\/h3><p>I traveled to India to deepen my meditation practice. I visited 36 cities and then passed through Russia. Without meaning to, I was tasting unexpected flavors and continuing to educate my palate.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"fh-sec\"><h3>From workshop to workshop<\/h3><ul class=\"fh-lugares\"><li><b>Cedritos<\/b><small>Cra. 19 at 151, behind Brahma Kumaris<\/small><em>The first workshop<\/em><\/li><li><b>Santa Teresita<\/b><small>Cra. 16 at 42<\/small><em>Back from India<\/em><\/li><li><b>Galer\u00edas<\/b><small>Cra. 19 at 53<\/small><\/li><li class=\"fh-hoy\"><b>Marly<\/b><small>Calle 51 # 9-73<\/small><em>Since 2007<\/em><\/li><\/ul><p>When we closed Galer\u00edas in 2008, we started serving a daily menu.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"fh-sec\"><h3><span>2008\u20132017<\/span> A different menu every day<\/h3><p>For ten years we made a different menu every single day, experimenting with ingredients, combinations and techniques.<\/p><\/section><section class=\"fh-sec\"><h3>The last few years<\/h3><ul class=\"fh-linea\"><li><b>2018\u20132019<\/b>Felipan goes vegan.<\/li><li><b>2020<\/b>The restaurant closes and we focus on the bakery. Recipes we made only once in a while become part of the daily menu.<\/li><li><b>2022<\/b>We reopen the restaurant, this time built around bread: pizza, lasagna, pasta and sandwiches.<\/li><li><b>2024<\/b>The first investments from partners arrive and we open our production bakehouse in Prado, at Cra. 54 and 128.<\/li><\/ul><\/section><section class=\"fh-cierre\"><p class=\"fh-kicker\">Today<\/p><p>I look for partners and companies to build alliances, teach workshops, host tastings, advise entrepreneurs\u2026 and I\u2019m still selling bread.<\/p><p class=\"fh-firma\">I\u2019m still running Felipan, <span>just like in 2002.<\/span><\/p><\/section><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized wp-duotone-blue-red\"><a href=\"https:\/\/felipan.com\/en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/felipan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/semilla.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7525\" style=\"width:48px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felipan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/semilla.png 100w, https:\/\/felipan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/semilla-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe empez\u00f3 a hacer pan en 2002. 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