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For over 30 years, SAVEUR has brought food stories and recipes from around the world into the kitchens of home cooks and culinary enthusiasts. Follow along as we travel around the world to meet the chefs, farmers, makers, and creatives who are transforming the food space through their individual connections to a place. Each week, our editors will chat with a food innovator whose personal journey is as compelling as what theyre putting on the plate.
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Exploring El Paso’s Culinary Heritage With Chef Emiliano Marentes of ELEMI, Hosted by SAVEUR EIC Kat Craddock
Episode 6
Thursday, 14 August, 2025

In El Paso, chef Emiliano Marentes is preserving Mexican culinary traditions while infusing them with a modern sensibility. At ELEMI, his intimate taco-focused restaurant, Marentes makes tortillas from scratch through the ancient process known as nixtamalization but takes a contemporary approach to plating. He joins SAVEUR editor-in-chief Kat Craddock to talk fresh masa, Sunday menudo, and his hometown of El Paso. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices