A collection of guides, reflections, and resources on Gastronomy and Life in Spain.
How Playing with Your Food Teaches You More Than Any Textbook
Discover how playful cooking awakens curiosity, creativity, and embodied knowledge that no textbook can replicate.
What Is Gastronomic Science?
Gastronomic Science blends the art of cooking with the rigor of research. Here’s how it’s shaping our understanding of food, flavors, and human experience.
Starting Over at 35
What does it mean to start over? Not because you failed, but because you chose yourself? At 35, I’m building a life rooted in meaning and peace, not survival.
Hiking in Donostia
Planning to explore San Sebastián on foot? This hiking guide includes beginner to moderate trails near Donostia, Spain, with maps, photos, and trail links.
Learning Spanish (and a Little Basque): My First Steps
I haven’t taken a language class in over a decade…and now I’m trying to learn Spanish and a little Basque? Here’s how it’s going (spoiler: I’m trying my best).
Cooking Like the Ancestors: A Journey Through Basque Food Traditions
Explore how Basque culinary heritage preserves ancestral cooking methods that connect us to land, culture, and memory.
Why I Chose Gastronomy As a Healing Path
This isn’t just a career change. It’s a healing process. Here’s why I chose gastronomy as my way forward. And why food is helping me build a life that finally feels like mine.
Why I chose the Basque Culinary Center
After years of searching for the right path, I found a graduate program that felt made for me. Here’s why I chose the Basque Culinary Center to study Gastronomic Sciences.
Why I’m Moving to Spain
After years of working, healing, and dreaming, I’m finally moving to Spain. Here’s why I chose to take the leap…and everything I’m taking with me (and leaving behind).