Viviana Carballo is a bi-lingual food writer with native fluency in English and Spanish. Ms. Carballo is a respected food consultant and recipe developer in the Hispanic market. Her clients include several major international food corporations.

She is currently working on HAVANA SALSA: Stories and Recipes, a memoir of the author's Havana , Cuba , of her youth, her eccentric family and friends, and the food that nourished, delighted and healed them. It will be published in the Fall of 2006 by Atria, a new imprint from Simon & Schuster.

Formerly with the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald as restaurant critic and food columnist, Ms. Carballo is now a weekly contributor to The Orlando Sentinel, Sun Sentinel and El Sentinel. In addition she is a regular contributor to several national magazines; Cooking Light, Travel&Leisure en Español, Boca Magazine, Nexos, the American Airlines on board magazine, and Nuestra Gente, a direct mail publication with distribution to over one million Hispanic households. Her article on Bilbao will appear in the June issue of Gourmet magazine.

She has hosted a radio program for BBC international taking the BBC's worldwide audience on a culinary tour of Latin Miami, from fast food to fine dining. Viviana’s expertise in food and travel has been quoted in the London Observer, in the American Express Magazine, Bon Appetite, Travel&Leisure, Food&Wine, The James Beard Foundation, and the Associated Press news wire. She has participated in panel presentations to IACP and DiRoNA (Distinguished Restaurants of North America).

She has traveled extensively throughout Latin America , Europe and South East Asia and has cooked her way through many cultures and cuisines. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Fordham University in New York , the Grand Diplome from the Paris Cordon Bleu, and has studied regional cooking in Spain. Ms. Carballo is continually updating her vast culinary knowledge by frequent travel visiting the kitchens of top chefs world wide.

Ms. Carballo has resided in New York and California , and now makes her home in Miami , which has given her invaluable day-to-day insight into a variety of Latin American markets and cultures.