As many of you may know, I grew up in Tampico, Tamaulipas, a fish town in the Gulf of Mexico. This gave me an exposure to a great deal of Seafood dishes, as my hometown is known for its many seafood offerings.

I remember that my older brother used to work at a nearby shrimp packing company during the summers. Once the fishing boats came back from the sea during the afternoon hours loaded with fresh shrimp, the packers would get to work in a speedy fashion, in order to preserve the freshness of the product. They would pack all the highest quality shrimp very nicely in attractive cardboard boxes that would be placed in large freezers. “It’s going to the United States,” they would say. At that point in my life, I wouldn’t have thought that one day I’d live in the US.