Text & Photos:
Julie Schwietert Collazo
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Belizean food: Kristin Fuhrmann-Simmons' purview as Belize Road Warrior.
When I met Kristin Fuhrmann-Simmons in person, I knew, without a doubt, that she was the perfect person to be the next Belize Road Warrior.
Kristin, a MatadorU student, attended one of my Food and Travel Writing workshops in New York City a couple months ago and I was immediately taken by her personality. As she silently read an essay, she laughed, she clutched her chest, and her breath caught. She expressed deep pleasure and showed close attention. I didn’t have to dig to discover her passions or her gifts; they were right there.
Kristin is a pastry chef. She doesn’t just love food in the way most of us love food–that is, as a gustatory experience–she loves food for all of the stories that surround it: the stories of where ingredients come from; the stories of the people who make it; the stories of how we share it. That’s why I knew she’d be perfect as the next writer-in-residence.
Kristin arrives in Belize tomorrow and starts a three-month journey around the country, meeting professional chefs and home cooks, farmers and cheese makers, beer producers and cashew wine makers, lobster fishermen and cacao producers. She has some incredible ideas about how she’s going to share those experiences, and you can follow along on the following channels:
Blog: 4ticketsplease
Twitter: @kafcooks
Facebook: 4ticketsplease Page
Besides food, Kristin will be covering family travel; her husband and their two cuter than pie daughters will be joining her for part of her tenure and they’ll be blogging and sharing their own stories.
I’m so excited to be working with all of them.
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By the way, if you missed the previous Road Warriors or haven’t kept up with them since they were in Belize, here are their blogs:
