When I read that one of Bourdain’s favourite spots for seafood was La Guerrerense, I knew where I was heading for lunch one sunny afternoon in Mexico City. I always seek out the chef, owner, anyone who can tell me a story behind what I’m eating (even if in a language I don’t understand). Well…
Tag: Central America
A Farm-to-Table Advocate Has Her First Real Farm-to-Table Experience
“Even when they say they’re organic, they still spray. The tomatoes look plastic-y and perfect but you bite in and its just water. You come here, taste the vegetables and it’s a completely different world. You feel so rewarded when you can say ‘I made that cheese’. We should go back to producing our own…
A Panamanian Chef and His Secret Sauce: A Love Story
On a quiet, unsuspecting road in Bocas Town, I spotted smoke wafting from an open barbecue and I knew I’d found it. I travelled thirty minutes on a bumpy, flooded road to get myself to Octo, for what I’d heard was one of the best restaurants on Isla Colon, maybe in the whole country, for…
The Nourishing Chronicle 