Cuisine plays a central role in the creation of identities and the building of communities. Integral to daily life, it embeds itself within social structures, cosmologies, and cultural traditions. Using paleoethnobotany, archaeological research provides a way to recover cultigens and connect them to larger cultural narratives about a site. This study utilizes paleoethnobotanical data to discuss the intersections of cuisine and culture at four sites in the lower Ulúa Valley in Honduras: Puerto Escondido (CR-372), Cerro Palenque (CR-157), CR-80, and CR-381. Newly analyzed data from CR-80 and CR-381 is considered alongside previously published data from CR-372 and CR-157. Through integration with other archaeological materials and previous research, the cultigens identified and discussed within this paper provide insight into foodways within the valley during the Early (200-550 CE) and Terminal Classic (800-1000 CE) periods. Cultigens transform into cuisine and interweave themselves into complex social relationships. In doing so, they become an important part of intangible heritage for local communities which creates more potential for archaeologists to understand the lives of communities.