Tea Vukorepa is a global tourism professional living in her hometown of Split, Croatia. A popular destination for tourists, the coastal city spreads over a peninsula on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. Split boasts an ideal Mediterranean climate, daily sunsets over the clear, blue water, and a city center more than 1,700 years […]

Juan José Cuevas lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he’s the executive chef at 1919, the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel’s fine-dining destination with beautiful beachfront views. Chef Cuevas, who was born in San Juan, cites his love of food writing for sparking his interest in cooking professionally. “When I was younger, there was a newspaper […]

To simply call Javier Ruiz a tour guide in Puerto Rico is an understatement. Before starting his tour company, Walk San Juan, Javier worked for eight years as a civil engineer in Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural Resources. He then became a holistic healer, after spending four years earning a diploma through the Barbara Brennan […]

“I always bring the D.C. swag with me wherever I go,” says executive pastry chef Padua Player aka SugaChef, who started his own pastry company- SugaChef Desserts– just a few miles from his hometown of Washington, D.C.  With four stints on Food Network TV shows, he started baking by growing up the youngest of seven […]