North America
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The Three Sisters: Green Chile Stew and Frybread
For this post, I decided to journey to the Four Corners. The four corners references where the states of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona meet. Archaeologically, this is an amazing region. In…
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A New Orleans Mardi Gras King Cake
Versions of the famous King Cake, a circular shaped, cinnamon pastry, filled with cream, praline, cream cheese, or other sweet confections, covered in frosting and then decorated with purple, green, and gold sugar,…
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Pupusas and the Pipil
I first had the pleasure of eating pupusas when working at Ceren, a World Heritage archaeological site in El Salvador. The pupusa is a staple dish in El Salvador and can be eaten…
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Pan de Muerto
October of 2020 I decided to honor Day of the Dead by embarking on making the delicious Mexican sweet bread pan de muerto. Day of the Dead is perhaps Mexico’s most famous holiday.…
