Maria Aguirre

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Location
Guayaquil, Ecuador
School
Northeastern University
Expertise
Latin American Food, Coffee, Homemade Cooking
  • She wrote the first ever Ecuadorian recipes for Food 52, a fish-based soup called Fanesca that Ecuadorians prepare for Easter, and a green plantain omelet named tigrillo.
  • Maria wrote a Guayaquil food guide for a special Ecuadorian edition of National Geographic Traveller UK, including trendy restaurants and favorite coffee shops.
  • She interviewed James Beard award-winning chef David Vargas, owner of Vida Cantina in Portsmouth, NH, for New Hampshire Public Radio' Spanish newscast.

Experience

Maria started her food writing career with her own food blog while in college. She wrote her personal anecdotes about food, and this is how she got a job as a radio host on a local station to interview relevant people in the Guayaquil food scene. Today, Maria produces the Spanish newscast for New Hampshire Public Radio. Besides food, she writes about body positivity and mental health on her personal Medium page in Spanish. For NHPR, she produced a radio story about how Latino families in NH connect to their roots through the plates they cook for Thanksgiving.

Education

After getting a bachelor's degree in communications in Guayaquil, Maria pursued a master's degree at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, while writing for school newspapers like Storybench, The Scope, and Global Observer. She did an online food writing course at Gotham Writers Workshop.

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