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To activate, remember, and regenerate Indigenous and Mesoamerican taste memories, foodways, ancestral knowledge, and relationships to land through the culinary arts, nourishing identity, community, and collective healing.

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View fullsize I study food, but what I am really studying is memory. Through Indigenous ingredients, ancestral recipes, ethnobotany, taste memory, and womb ecology, I honor the ways food shapes identity, belonging, and collective healing. Welcome to Taste Memory
View fullsize Last week, I made bougainvillea lemonade sweetened with agave, and with the first sip, I was back in Mexicali, sitting beneath the shade of a bougainvillea with my abuelita Panchita. As far back as I can remember, this flower has been part of my lif
View fullsize When I was a little girl, I loved being gifted tiny ancestral kitchenware — little metates, mini molcajetes, small barro pieces. Yes, they were toys, but they were also teachings. Ways of staying rooted. Ways of learning memory through touch.
View fullsize Food tells stories. Taste carries memory. I’ve been cooking up something beautiful with @indigenoushouse, with my ancestors beside me every step of the way. Can’t wait to share more soon! La cultura cura and so do our comidas. 🌽 #Tast
View fullsize Join me for a conversation grounded in my research, culinary practice, and public scholarship on ancestral foodways, taste memory, and cultural reclamation. Together, we’ll examine how colonial systems reshaped Indigenous and Mexican food tradi
View fullsize As I have been taught, Spring is a return to greens, to seeds, to nourishment. Join me for a hands-on cooking class on Saturday, April 11th from 10 am - 12pm, where we’ll make a vibrant pepita seed mole bowl integrating seasonal ingredients.

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