I probably grew up loving good food and cooking much more than my sister, but she bought in to us foodies a little later in life. As adults, we shared the love of cooking and sharing old and new recipes. As you would expect, sometimes we had to have a “cook off” as we […]
Talk about going to a country where their food is one of your favorites, China was a gastronomic dream come true. Specifically, Shanghai and their variety of street foods. One of our favorites was scallion pancakes, a crispy savory pancake laced with green onions, lightly fried until golden brown. They were melt in your
I had the pleasure of visiting Lima, Peru several years ago and was enchanted with the city and its people. I was fortunate to have made friends of husband and wife, Jaime Fernando Sotomayor Bernos and Maria Isabel Barrios Having met them early in my visit, they enhanced my visit by steering me to
My maternal abuelita and abuelito (grandmother and grandfather) came to the United States when they were very young. They met and married in Tampa, Florida. Abuelita had an especially hard life for having been so young and came to the United States on a boat by herself at the age of 12. Despite her
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