When you sit down at Marimbas Guatemalan Bakery & Restaurant with a piping hot cup of coffee and a champurrada (a traditional sesame seed cookie), you’ll be struck at how homey and familial the place ...

This is New Guatemalan cuisine, a Mesoamerican culinary movement that’s been brewing for the past couple of decades. The effort has exploded in recent years thanks to a new generation of ...

GUATEMALA CITY — One of Debora Fadul’s earliest childhood memories is traveling in the backseat of her family’s sedan as her father negotiated long, windy roads to far-flung and verdant villages in ...

Emanuel Romero Guzman, owner of Tostadas Food Truck, was born in Antigua, Guatemala. “It’s a mix of Mayan and Spanish culture, so that’s what I cook. The food culture in Guatemala is huge,” he says.

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. A dark cobalt blue ...

When Wilfredo and Elvi Reyes moved to Kent 10 years ago, they couldn’t find any food from their home country of Guatemala. Wilfredo says even though he met many Guatemalans living in Kent, he couldn’t ...

Welcome to our new weekly column, Lunch Box. It’s pretty simple: every week, one of D’s writers—often dining critic Brian Reinhart—will report back on a fun place to get lunch. Think of it like being ...

CHICAGO -- When Pablo Pineda immigrated from Guatemala to the United States with his family, he said his mother told him he had to come to the country offering something. Pineda has done that by ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — You’ve probably heard of Tex-Mex. But how about Guatemex? In a city where diners can’t seem to say “si” enough to Mexican food, a new restaurant is coining the term — at least locally.

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