Hey, American South, look what is happening: A new cuisine is emerging, born of Southern and Latino cultures. Que? Tamales stuffed with greens, corn ice cream topped with hot praline sauce, brownies with chile, sweet potato and plaintain casserole. Welcome to El Nuevo South. The ingredients of our people are joyfully intermingling with traditional Southern [...]

Miami was delicious. I was there to witness the unveiling of General Mills’ revamped Que Rica Vida site. It was awesome. General Mills comes off of this looking genius in the way it has smartly reached out in such a huge way to Latinos, Latino media and Latina/os who blog. Plus, my father just called [...]

The Tiki Tiki Blog this week is giving away a bilingual, Spanish North American map puzzle. Come on over and check it out. It is huge, sturdy and lists all 32 Mexican states. Created by a new company, Ingenio. Get it for your little genio.

Have you seen the el stinko over mommy bloggers and pay-ola? Ethics and freebies and transparency, all being debated online…and the conversation made more intense by gazillion dollar swag bags women were grabbing at BlogHer ’09. (Follow the links at the thoughtful Mom-101 and you’ll get all caught up.) Oy. I have thoughts. Long rambling [...]

Let me tell you that I should have married a guy who works for Geek Squad.My router went fritzy on me two weeks ago and I have not had the ability or patience to work much with constantly broken links and slow connections.My Geek showed up today and fixed me right up. It didn’t even [...]

Happy good morning… I am having cafecito in a quiet house and expecting all that to change in a few hours — my parents and the three newly arrived Cubanos will be here this afternoon. My parents have taken our relatives on the “See America!” tour…or at least the “See Where All The Cubans in [...]

So, while I am pretty good multi-tasker, I am a weak meal planner. We eat well and healthy, but I get into a rut. Now, there is potential in this World Wide Latin Web to find menu inspiration through el Tiki Tiki Blog. Mira, the idea is you tell me what’s on your menu this [...]

One day, I am going to get really, really good at this video essay/post thing and I am going to impersonate Maria Elvira Live! “Ay, dios mio, tiene un traje de scuba!” the TV host said — or something like that — last week while showing pictures of the Bearded Dictator’s son.“That suit looks Italian!” [...]

My mom had no idea I had been video-taping the messages she leaves on my answering machine. The reason: To create a video essay for Tiki Tiki titled: “I have a Latin Mother.” “She tells me she worries if she hasn’t heard from me. I tell her not to freak, the local hospital surely will [...]

OK, a little Public Service Announcement about the new Tiki Tiki .Have you come over to check it out?We hope so. The Tiki Tiki is just short of a couple weeks old, and Violeta, Marta, Carla and I are having a good time writing, doing video posts and adding new features and content. More on the [...]