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I loved reading Mia’s stories about the origins of these recipes in her abuela Sara’s kitchen. The combination of flavors from the three cultures that heavily influenced Puerto Rican cuisine - Taíno, Spanish, and African - creates truly interesting dishes that I’m really looking forward to exploring alongside you this month. Before each month starts, I’m going to lay out the structure of content on my side, so that if you want to cook through the same recipes, you can begin t

It's a Sunday afternoon. The week hasn't even started, and I'm already tired of cooking dinner. Work, homework, after-school activities, doctor's appointments. We've got something every night this week, and dinner still has to happen. Food consumed. And today, I still have to buy the groceries. I pull a cookbook off the shelf and flip through the pages. I'm dreaming. Italy Tuesday? Mexico Thursday would be incredible. But honestly, I'm dying for Greece tomorrow. The kids will

Cocina Puerto Rico by Mia Castro When I started thinking about how I wanted to kick off The Edible Itinerary’s first online Cookbook Club session, I felt some pressure. I knew it needed to be exciting and enticing, with strong flavors to draw people in, but maybe also a little familiar, not to scare anyone off (just yet!). Flipping through some of the newer books on my shelf that reflected my travels this last year, I was quickly drawn to Cocina Puerto Rico by Mia Castro. My

It was our last night in Antigua, Guatemala. We had spent the day on a chicken bus tour of some of the smaller pueblos surrounding the city, learning from weavers and jade artisans, and we were exhausted. We are "travelers," not "vacationers," so there hadn't been much downtime on our weeklong trip. We were logging those steps and maximizing every minute. During an afternoon rest break, I started scouring Google for the highest-rated restaurants I could find. Nothing below 4.

A cooking class in Lake Atitlán taught me more about Guatemala than any tour ever had. It also made me think back to small-town Tennessee, where "international food" meant Mexican or Chinese, and how far I've come since. That trip is why I started The Edible Itinerary, a cookbook club for anyone who believes the table is the way into a place.