Author Juan Miguel Martinez

The aluminum pack is scalding hot, held by brown hands that are somehow impervious to the heat. The pack is then handed to novice hands that bounce it back and forth between palms. Finally, it's dropped into a ...

Sabor Divino is my favorite food truck/restaurant in Milwaukee. There, I said it.I have been to many eateries in my fair city in an attempt to elevate, uplift, and recommend cuisines from all over the world...

I consider myself a semi-regular tea drinker, and the things a mind like mine ponders when it comes to tea are "What kind of monkeys picked the oolong? Did they wear little bellhop hats?" and other such nonsens...

My visit to the Sherman Park neighborhood on Memorial Day was a memorable one. I finally got an interview with Chef Tizzy Tazz, who I had been trying to track down for a couple of years. During the course of ou...

The long stretch of Holton between Brady and Capitol is the main vein that bridges downtown, the north side, and Riverwest. It is a storied drag, and one that has a rich Boricua history. All the people who grew...

The people of the village are hard at work under a harsh and unforgiving sun. The year is 500 B.C., or as close as anyone can figure it, anyway. These people are working to create a meal for themselves and the ...

Puerquitos (Spanish, noun): piggies, a gingerbread pastry in the shape of a pig, made by the Huastecan (San Luis Potosí) people of Mexico, where piloncillo (hardened brown sugar) takes the place of molasses in ...

"Es que tu comes pura maciza, wey" ("It's because you only order the lean meat, dude") is something I overhear at Carnitas Machetes (2000 S. 8th St., 414-389-9254), where I am waiting in line to get my two poun...

About eight years ago, my sister and I went to see OFF! in Chicago. We showed up about three hours early, so we went to eat at El Barco Mariscos, a Mexican restaurant on Ashland and Cortez. We ordered ceviche, ...

In the vast and sometimes strange world of south side Milwaukee cuisine, hole-in-the-wall eateries are king. There are ones that people in a three-block radius swear by, and ones that north shore nancies trek i...