Tropical Traditions
What’s Your Holiday Tradition?
Generation after generation, the acts of making and sharing celebratory foods and drink are baked into our hearts. These South Floridians show the labor and joy that goes into creations we enjoy every year.
Concetta’s Sicilian cookies
Just as her grandmother and mother did, Concetta Pilato bakes cookies for Christmas in her Boca Raton kitchen. She’s been cooking forever...
Hallacas from the Sanchezes
Who makes the best hallacas? Your mother, your aunt, your abuela… and probably Jessica, Jennifer and Barbara Sanchez, who for the past nine...
Thousands of Cookies by Shar
Sharmila Melwani of Plantation has come a long way since she baked cookies for her daughter’s first birthday 17 years ago. After that, she...
