Why It's Time to Dive Into the Caribbean

Remember Floribbean? Just typing the word takes me back to the late ’90s, when a bit of chili-spiked mango salsa turned any dish into something that magically represented Florida, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico—all at once. Never mind that it was a lot of culinary pressure to be put on a scoop of salsa; chefs did it all the time, and that salsa became the...