Food, Art and Music Explorations’ mission is to bring chefs, food lovers, artists, musicians and art lovers together to share information, techniques and best practices and build friendships. This is done through coordinating travel between both countries – in both directions – to facilitate two-way learning; as well as jointly producing studies and publications about issues related to culture and culinary.

Food, Art and Music Explorations is devoted to organizing programs to promote cultural and educational exchange and people-to-people contact between the people of the United States and Cuba. We believe that the people of the United States and Cuba have much to learn from each other and meaningful exchanges that foster dialogue can be highly beneficial to strengthening civil society in both countries. Furthermore, the cultural and culinary ties shared by the U.S. and Cuba date back hundreds of years and exchanges that focus on music, art and gastronomy allow people in both countries to learn from each other. Most importantly, increased travel between the two countries and people-to-people contact will strengthen ties between ordinary Americans and Cubans, using food, drinks, music and art to break barriers.