Santiago Nunez-Prado is the Border Cooking Editor at TheCookingRecipe.com, based in El Paso, Texas. Born in El Paso and raised on both sides of the border, he grew up crossing the Paso del Norte bridge every Sunday to his tia Lucha’s kitchen in Juarez. That ritual taught him that salsa is not a condiment, it’s an argument. With nine years in professional kitchens, he’s developed a method for ranking every salsa on a heat-to-flavor chart that he defends like a thesis. He specializes in salsas, as
