Every good trip starts with a feeling.
A food-first travel guide, written by one person who keeps going back to the table. We go back before we write — we would rather know a few places properly than list a hundred.
An island, a table, and everything after.
Cuba teaches you to make something out of very little, and to put everything you have into a meal.
I grew up in Cuba and studied psychology there, then found my way into marketing and communications in Australia. Understanding people and knowing how to tell their stories are closer to the same skill than most people think.
Leading food tours taught me that a dish is never really just a dish. It is someone’s grandmother, someone’s hardest year, someone’s whole inheritance, served on a plate without asking anything from you except that you sit down and pay attention.
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House of Routes, in three lines.
Written by someone who went back.
Most travel writing is assembled. This is remembered. Every guide here comes from the same person walking the same streets a second time, ordering again where it was worth it, and quietly leaving out the places that were not.
If that is the kind of travelling you want, start with a country you have been circling for years.