Not your mother’s Mayan cuisine: Sunnyvale restaurant adapts traditional recipes for a larger audience | News
Many chefs harness recipes passed down from mothers and grandmothers, and memories of growing up in Hunucmá, Mexico, surrounded by Mayan communities inspire Ed Correa’s menu showcasing Indigenous cuisine at Mayan Kitchen in Sunnyvale. Through his partnership with Katie Voong, owner of K Tea Cafe, a bubble tea and jianbing shop, executive kitchen manager Correa’s cooking has evolved to reach a wider audience, even though it has meant making changes that wouldn’t get the approval of his family’s matriarchs.
Correa is determined to share Mayan cuisine with the Peninsula and sees his style of cooking as an essential evolution to