Taking Spanish Cooking Classes in Cartagena: Kitchen Commands for the Wandering Expat
From Mangú to Mojarra: My First Day in a Cartagena Kitchen The first thing that hit me when I walked into Chef Aurora’s open-air cooking studio in
Swapping Propane Tanks and Swapping Words: A Bilingual Survival Guide to the Colombian Cooking Gas Cylinder Exchange
El Cilindro Aventurero: A Gas Cylinder Confusion That Taught Me to Listen I still remember the first time I tried to trade in an empty propane tank on
Surviving Santo Domingo Traffic: Spanish for Motoconcho Negotiations
Ten years ago I stepped off a plane, still clutching a pocket phrasebook, and into the unruly embrace of Santo Domingo’s Avenida 27 de Febrero at ru
Surf, Sand, and Silent Letters: Tackling Aspirated Consonants in Cuban and Puerto Rican Spanish
Waves slapped the Malecón wall in Havana, a salt mist haloing my notebook. I was jotting prices for pan con lechón when the vendor leaned over and m
Surf Lessons in Cabarete: Water-Sports Spanish for the Adventurous Expat
“¡Dale, James, rema duro!” The shout cut through the roar of the Atlantic as my instructor, a wiry Dominican named Wilson, encouraged me to paddl