Without local shops, shoppers would buy gifts exclusively from in-flight catalogues, and fathers would sneak into airplane wheel wells on Black Friday to order spy-camera blenders for their children. Enjoy earthbound browsing with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of Latin American kitchenware, appliances, and more at Melissa Guerra Tienda de Cocina, located in the historic Pearl Brewery. Today’s deal is not valid toward sale items.

Stocking its shelves with a wide variety of kitchen appliances, cutlery, dishware, and more, Melissa Guerra Tienda de Cocina provides guests with Latin American culinary goods in a colorful, highly perusable mercado-style venue. Customers can grace their munch mesas with a Chilean smiling-frog toothpick holder from Pomaireware ($10.95, toothpicks included), whose air-dried clay surface is polished with an agate before firing in order to silence ribbits of protest. A hand-blown etched martini/dessert glass ($24.95) enhances its contents with hand-etched details and vibrant turquoise, dark blue, and green hues (clear also available). A molcajete (Mesoamerican mortar and pestle) lends sauces a hearty flavor that steers dinner conversations toward infamous guac gourmands from the golden age of culinary exploration, such as the fabled Ponce de León. For aspiring chefs, Melissa Guerra carries various edible items, such as tamale ingredients, chilies, and sweets, and an assortment of artisan folk pieces is available for home and bodily adornment.

A self-taught culinary professional and cuisine historian, Melissa Guerra is an eighth-generation Texan whose two-tongued abilities have been sought out by companies such as Coca-Cola, Kraft, and Goya. Use today’s Groupon to capitalize on Guerra’s desire to populate our country’s kitchens with quality, creative kitchenware.

This Groupon is valid for in-store purchases only.