Some 30 years after she fled El Salvador as a refugee, Yesenia Lopez still longed for the flavors of home. She often found herself driving around Gainesville looking for soup and pastries like she had back in Santa Ana, but could never find them. “I was traveling all the way to Norcross and Gwinnett to buy some of this El Salvadoran food we eat,” Lopez said. “So I thought about opening a business where we could have all this here locally for our community.” Lopez opened La Santaneca Bakery three months ago on Queen City Parkway in Gainesville, and she said the “response has been awesome.”