Chef Melissa Araujo, a 2024 James Beard Foundation Semifinalist for Best Chef: South, was born in La Ceiba, Atlántida, Honduras, a small beach town on the Atlantic Coast. She spent summers learning to cook with her grandmother, Alma, for whom she named her celebrated Bywater restaurant. She regards her time with her grandmother as “my […]
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