After a year of planning, Duncan Smith and Rob Grant have embarked on the culinary adventure of a lifetime. Riding their motorcycles to every country across the Americas, they’ll explore different regional cultures and cuisines, focusing on local street foods and their origins and heritage. This site is aimed to keep people in tune with their adventure and will provide recipes along the way.
DUNCAN SMITH
Duncan is a professional photographer and a motorcycle enthusiast with a love for food and adventure. Having been raised on multiple continents and in an international family, he’s passionate about travel, meeting new people and learning about their cultures. He has explored many parts of the world and is always in search of new cuisines and the experiences that come with meeting people over great food and drinks. Duncan loves to entertain and his passion for cooking shines in his dishes.
Duncan@DuncanSmithPhotography.com
After 20 years of being tied down to his work, Duncan has made the leap to follow his dream and spend the next year or two traveling around Latin America, exploring the beauty, cultures and cuisines based around local street food.
ROB GRANT
Rob is a professional chef and world adventurer using his skills to achieve a life long dream. Rob has paired with celebrity chefs all over the United States, tutored under some of the best chefs in France and spent more than a year in Mexico. These culinary skills and educated palate combined with a love of life will serve help deliver a delicious and practical product to our readership.
A motorcycle enthusiast with a collection of classics (Honda, BMW, Ducati, Kawasaki), Rob has already traveled most of the US on long distance tours, experiencing the diverse culture that exists in our country. With his mastery of the Spanish language and culture from his time in Mexico, Rob with his wife Kitty will be expert guides to the reader of well known dishes and their history – and local street food found in off the beaten-path neighborhoods.
Are you the Rob G. that I climbed the Grand with and lived in lander Wy. in 1981 ?
Yep,
Hey, how are you doing? What’s been happening with you for the last 20+ years? How did you hear about us? We have to catch up, meet us in Mexico!
-Rob
Wow! A facebook search brought up Duncan Smith with a mention of Rob Grant, pure luck! Doing great, just retired, Sharon and I run our sports shop. We hike, ski, and travel as much as possible. Check out orionssports.com Mexico? maybe, keep in touch. You can find
my email on the website.
Sounds like you are on a great adventure!! I’ll be checking the blog.
Wish I could have made it work to come with you guys! You’re going to experience the trip of a lifetime!!…very excited for ya’ll!!
can’t wait to hear more. with you two guys, there’s no way this can’t be interesting.
thanks, i enjoyed the read
Rob- your satire is missed and its chilly next door. Keeping my head above water and trying to stay out of the daily “hub bub”. Eat well, drive fast, live long. Stay safe. Your greatly missed around here – kg
If you guys fancy cooking for someone give me a call when you get nearer to Panama haha!!!
Seriously if you want to hook up I am a Brit Biker living in Panama near the Pasa Canoas border with CR. All bikers welcome to hang out at my place if they want, am on FB & Skype
Good luck & ride safe
Norm
Hi Norm,
Great to see that we are getting some global attention. We would love to get together with you in Panama. We will be in Mexico until the end of the year and then start heading down your way. Stay in touch and we will keep you posted on our timing.
Looking forward to meeting you,
-Rob
Rob-
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Your “adventures” are starting to sound like some of my field days in the Philippines and Indonesia while conducting field work on volcanic lakes. I’m impressed that you found the energy at the end of the day to write about it! But, I’m so glad that you do. It always lifts my spirits. Your humor and dry wit are so very missed here.
Take care of yourself. Keep that helmet on, sounds like it comes in handy on occasion
Cami
Buenas dias Cami,
Glad to see that you all are following us. Keep leaving comments and spread the word, we are starting to get global attention (some spam). The more attention we get the better chance we have of keeping the ball rolling.
Miss you all,
-Rob
Great work keep it coming
Rob, awesome, what an adventure! Enjoy and have fun! Will you have a show on the Food Network?
Hey Mari,
We need to find a publisher first. thanks for following us and posting comments, keep ‘em coming and spread the word. Things are going great and we are making a lot of contacts and friends.
-Rob
Thanks for the post
Hey Duncan,
I am friends of David R., Eric’s friend, that i believe you saw in mexico.
Well anyways, I am from Argentina, live in toronto now but David told me you are planning to go to the south at some point and that I should give you some tips or places to go in Argentina.
Let me know if you are interested and what of places you are looking for to see if may be I can help you.
Lorena.
Hey guys, love the site and am so envious of the experience.
(BTW… you will get more SEO love if you spell culinary correctly in the name of the site.)
Had a devil of a time finding this after a recommendation.
Bookmarked. Have a blast!
I told Saveur they should be following your blog, because they should it is great! Have fun in Tikal, it was pretty amazing when I went there 20+ years ago. But the town nearby was kind of a trip…
http://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/SAVEURs-Favorite-Global-Food-Blogs#comments
Hey bro , I’ll love to see the pics from the chicamocha flying day here in Bucaramanga,Colombia…great day and stay in touch !!
Talk to you soon…Richi
Don’t worry, I’ll definitely be posting pictures of that but it’ll have to wait until I get my computer back after the hike.
cheers and thanks for an amazing experience.
They’re up. Had a great time and keep in touch. cheers,
http://motorcyclemenus.com/2012/02/08/i-jumped-off-a-fin-cliff/