Tales from the Trail

There is a moment that happens to almost everyone who embarks on Costa Rica culinary travel, and it is impossible to predict when it will find you. For some people it happens on a hillside coffee farm in Tarazu when the farmer hands them a ripe red coffee cherry and says simply, taste it. For others it happens in a home kitchen when a grandmother ties an apron around their waist and begins teaching them to press tortillas by hand without a single word of shared language betwe

Adventure travel for food lovers is, without question, the most delicious way to see the world. I have planned so many trips over the years, and the ones that my clients talk about long after they return home are almost never the ones with the most famous landmarks or the most luxurious accommodations. They are the trips where they sat in a tiny plastic chair on a street corner in Hanoi, slurping a bowl of pho at seven in the morning. They are the trips where they stood in a