Food That Roots Us

An inheritance of flavor: family recipes in Costa Rica

Today, in a cyber world based on analog codes where immediacy is the greatest truth, family culinary heritage—that intangible heritage collected in ancestors’ notebooks—is its own kind of wealth. Some of these traditions are not hidden away in a remote corner of the kitchen, but proudly showcased: vintage wines, or porcelain and glasses inherited for […]

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