The Costa Rica Food Experience

Cooking in Costa Rica is culinary discovery. There are so many unknown vegetables and fruits, all fresh and locally sourced, great seafood, an excellent quality meat - you only have to know where to buy the best ingredients.

This country has so many different climate zones, which allows a huge variety of fruits and vegetables to be grown.

Including new ingredients in my cuisine was the first challenge

-  applying modern cooking techniques to Costa Rican recipes brought amazing results.

Soon I started to offer cooking classes to share my knowledge and experience with locals and tourists from all over the world.

And, of course, as I missed some special German food which was hard to find here, I started to make my own bread, to ferment cabbage to have “Sauerkraut” and together with my husband, a former pharmacist, we started to smoke fish and ham, producing salami and fresh cheese, something I had never done before.

It was and is a pleasure to produce our own food and, as we don´t use any artificial ingredients or preservatives, our food is natural and healthy.