Bex Streeper is the daughter of a Puerto Rican papá and a Polish mami. “I had the extreme fortune to grow up in Chicago, where I experienced some of the world’s best food,“ she says. Bex now lives in central Iowa with her husband, who is of German and Mexican ancestry—and loves her cooking. “Cooking comida traditional de Puerto Rico, México y mucho más is a way that I connect to mi familia.”