During the summer of 1999, when I was just 15, I moved with my family to Spain. I had never visited Europe before and I had only traveled outside the United States for trips to Mexico. What took place ...

One of the simplest Spanish delicacies is a tapa called Pimientos de Padrón, small, flavorful green peppers that are blistered in olive oil over high heat and sprinkled with coarse salt. That’s it.

Priscilla Blossom, a Nicaraguan- and Mexican-American, grew up speaking Spanish but felt pressured to assimilate and would sometimes only communicate in English. Now as a mom, she worries that her son ...