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Award-winning journalist and educator Natalia de Cuba Romero is author of Eat Your Way Through Puerto Rico: a culinary translation dictionary, and the popular food blog, Hot, Cheap & Easy. Her latest project is a work of historical fiction, set in 17th century Spain and its colonies, based on the true story of an idealistic young woman and her life-or-death battle against the all powerful Spanish Inquisition (expected completion Winter 2025).
A frequent contributor to publications like Newsday and Edible East End magazine, de Cuba Romero's career in journalism and education spans three continents and includes interviews with luminaries such as Raisa Gorbachev, Steven Spielberg, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias, and so many others, for publications including National Geographic Traveler, Bon Appetit, and Latina magazines. Her specialties include food, wine, travel, and cultural journalism, as well as disaster and investigative reporting.
She has been a fulltime professor of English, English as a Second Language and Latin American Studies for almost twenty years and is a 2024 SUNY Chancellor Award winner for Excellence in Teaching.
She and her son live in New York.