Tag Archives: Guatemala

Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: Main Course: Guava Glazed Snapper and Plantains in Pepian Sauce

Chef Howland’s Guava Glazed Snapper Guava Glazed Snapper In this Video Bite, Chef Graham Howland demonstrates how to select and prepare fresh, local fish with a sweet guava glaze. In the video, he uses yellowtail snapper. At my dinner, I served lane snapper. His specialty is seafood. Chef Howland is now retired, but his experiences [...]

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Travels: Rosa de Jamaica in Guatemala

Another ruby red juice! Today, it’s rosa de jamaica, which I drank for the first time in Guatemala. On my latest trip, I eagerly drank some as soon as I arrived and didn’t stop until I went home! This simple drink is made from the dried sepals (the part that holds the petals) of hibiscus [...]

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In Guatemala…

I’m learning new words like pepian and pepitoria here in Guatemala, where we are visiting my husband’s family. Today we visited the Filadelfia coffee farm near Antigua, which is one of my favorite food cities right now. Yesterday, we took a cooking class to learn how to make traditional foods like chiles rellenos and platanos [...]

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