Paola Briseño-González is a food writer and avid cook who wrote her very first recipe for a key lime cookie pie at age six. She is a proud Pata Salada—that’s Mexican coastal surf speak for a native of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Her work has appeared in Food & Wine, Epicurious, Food Network and more. She will be featured on Season 5 of Milk Street TV, where she and husband Javier Cabral introduce Christopher Kimball to, among other things, a spin on banana cream pie that is served up at the beaches around Puerto Vallarta. Paola currently develops recipes for Siete Foods, a grain-free Mexican-American food brand. Paola lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a punk rock writer and taco editor, and their two Old English Sheepdogs, Fig and Crema.