A Taste of Nicaragua
With Mandy Baca
We are back in Miami!
This time, I am teaming up with Mandy Baca, a local historian and fellow food scholar. We met many years ago at a book signing for her recently published book, The Sizzling History of Miami Cuisine: Cortaditos, Stone Crabs and Empanadas. Since then, we have developed a close friendship based on our mutual love for Miami’s unique local foods.
We will be visiting a part of Miami-Dade County that is close to Mandy’s heart: Sweetwater and Fontainebleau. This is the heart of Miami’s Nicaraguan community. And Miami has the largest Nicaraguan community in the United States, so that’s saying something.
Despite the community’s prominence in Miami, too few people are familiar with Nicaraguan culture and and cuisine. Mandy and I are going to change that with this food crawl!
Mandy has carefully selected 6 different local food businesses that represent the community. And we’ll be tasting more than 10 Nicaraguan delicacies. Some of these foods can’t be found anywhere else outside of Nicaragua.
At the same time, Mandy will go over the cultural significance of what we’ll be sampling, the special ingredients and techniques that go into Nicaraguan cuisine, and the history of Nicaraguans in Miami.
Transportation is included. An air conditioned van will meet us at our first stop, take us to all our stops, and return back to where we started.
You can check out photos of our past food crawls here (although this one promises to outshine the others).
This food crawl will include:
A exclusive visit to an iconic formal restaurant.
The best and biggest tamale in Latin America.
A unique take on a “salad.”
Learning why Nicaragua is the Dairy Land of Central America with tastings of artisanal, locally-made cheeses and cultured cream
A more sophisticated chocolate milk.
Discovering the difference between Mexican and Nicaraguan tortillas.
Miami’s most distinctive frozen treat.
The Nicaraguan answer to “fast food.”
A visit to a traditional grocery.
Traditional cookies and fudge.
Tickets are $45 per person (Includes all food, beverages, transportation to all the stops, tax, and gratuities)
Only 12 spots available