I’m José Luis Villalobos — born in Valparaíso, Chile, based in Sacramento, California.
Sazón y Tumbao exists because Latin American and Caribbean food deserves better than what most English-language food sites give it. Not fusion. Not approximations. The real thing — from Colombia to Cuba, from Peru to Puerto Rico, from Mexico to the Dominican Republic.
I built this site to document every dish worth knowing from 33 countries and territories across the Americas and the Caribbean.
539 recipes. One hemisphere. Zero shortcuts.