Home Between PlacesNov 18, 2025
What I Brought from Quito That's Still With Me 25 Years Later
On the 28th of December 2000, I landed in the UK wearing a pair of jeans. Twenty-five years later, my daughter wears them.
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Every musing, recipe, and small confession from a life lived between two places.
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Food & RecipesNov 12, 2025
Why I Still Cook Ecuadorian Food on Rainy Glasgow Sundays
There is something about November rain on a Glasgow window that makes me need a pot of sofrito on the hob. Twenty-five years in, and some rituals refuse to adapt.
Food & RecipesOct 28, 2025
The Smell of Sofrito on School Nights
On Tuesdays my daughter walks in from school and smells home — even though she's never seen the home I'm cooking from.
Home Between PlacesOct 20, 2025
Objects from Ecuador in a British House
A wooden spoon from Otavalo, a tagua bowl, a striped blanket folded over a tartan chair. The objects are how the two countries learn to live together.
HERITAGEOct 14, 2025
What 25 Years in Britain Actually Does to Your Accent
I sound Ecuadorian to the British and British to the Ecuadorians. The voice you end up with is its own third country.
Home Between PlacesOct 06, 2025
Tropical Plants in a Tenement Flat
How I keep a small jungle alive through Glasgow winters — and why it matters more than it should.
Life in the UKSep 30, 2025
On Slowly, Quietly Becoming a Glaswegian
Nobody hands you a certificate. One day you just realise you say 'wee' without thinking and you mean it.
Food & RecipesSep 22, 2025
Encebollado is the Cure for Everything
A bowl of fish, yuca, lime, red onion. The most honest soup I know.
HERITAGESep 14, 2025
British Politeness, Ecuadorian Warmth
Two ways of caring about a stranger. I have learned to use both — sometimes in the same sentence.