The last few years have witnessed the Islingtonification of our palates, and now crisps, once the cheap, greasy comfort food of choice and hangovers, have been transformed into £1-a-bag gourmet experiences: hand-cooked, salsa-ed, sea-salted, balsamic-ed.
This $2 million business makes and sells gourmet foods such as bean soups, coffee, and salsa mixes.
"You can be the Tasteless Gourmet!" One day soon after, I opened a new jar of salsa, leaned in and inhaled.
By night, in the New York-sounding district of SoFo ("South of Fortaleza Street"), I dined on Latin fusion delights such as dorado with crab salsa in the Parrot Club, and witnessed San Juan's pitch for the title of gourmet capital of the Caribbean.
The sophisticated, Nordic-inspired menu is heaven for any gourmet who likes to eat local and seasonal: try venison carpaccio with truffle oil, Arctic char with fennel salsa, or a surf'n'turf mountain-lamb-and-lobster combo, served with potato terrine and blueberry demi-glaze.
