Madrid Food Blog

Peruvian cuisine has captivated the palates of food enthusiasts all over the world. Known for its diverse flavors and ingredients, Peru’s culinary repertoire features influences from its indigenous Inca population mixed with European, Asian, and African immigrant-brought traditions. Thanks to New York City’s sizable Peruvian community, there’s no shortage of places to enjoy Peruvian fare, […]

Empanadas, or stuffed semi-circle hand pies, can be found all over Latin America. Their history is complex and multifaceted– historians believe that the global concept of stuffed dough originated thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia.  In the case of the empanada, it is believed that an early variant from the Middle East would make its […]

Modena balsamic vinegar is such a kitchen staple today that it’s hard to imagine that it was almost unheard of outside Italy until relatively recently. It’s only been about 40 years that the term became widely recognized in the United States, let alone recognized enough to be as ubiquitous, as it now is on grocery […]

Little Italy once consisted of a large swath of lower Manhattan, stretching from the Bowery to Lafayette Street and Houston Street in the north, down to Worth Street in the south. In 1910, there were 10,000 Italians living in this lower Manhattan neighborhood, one of the poorest parts of New York City at the time. […]

Once upon a time in NYC, someone called the authorities because a man was “mistreating a squirrel.” When the police turned up, they found the “suspect”: an Ecuadorian man who was in the grilling area of the park cooking a cuy, or Guinea pig, on a long skewer. Cuys are a common snack in the […]