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BECOMING THE WHET PALETTE: The life, detours, and dinners that got me here

A little reintroduction felt overdue. Some of you have been here since I started The Whet Palette in 2013. Some found me somewhere along the way, and some of you are brand new here. You may know the restaurants, the podcast, the wine, the travel, and my slightly obsessive relationship with MICHELIN, but you probably […]

Mariel Boatlift’s “Little Heroes”

I stood up and briefly shared “something interesting about myself” on my first day of college in 1990, as instructed by our teacher. “My name is Brenda. I was born in Cuba and came to this country via the Mariel boatlift ten years ago when President Carter opened the borders and allowed over 100,000 Cubans […]