Jul 26, 2024
One of my greatest quiet joys is cooking from a
well-written cookbook on a weekend night, music on the bluetooth
and new scents and tastes filling the kitchen. My favorite cookbook
that I’ve cooked from this year is
Latinisimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Country of Latin
America by Sandra Gutierrez. Sweeping in its scope, it is an
encyclopedia of the home cooking of Latin America today, and each
of the hundreds of recipes is approachable and very doable for a
cook like me. I’m not surprised. Sandra -- who grew up in Guatemala
City but has lived in Cary, NC for decades -- is the former food
editor of the Cary News, an historian, professional cooking
instructor, and author of four cookbooks, including this latest.
She is considered one of the top national experts on Latin American
foodways, and she has a heart for the home cook. Sandra has been
awarded the Les Dames D’Escoffier M. F. K Fisher Grand Prize Award
for Excellence in Food Writing, and her work has been recognized as
part of the permanent FOOD exhibit at the Smithsonian National
Museum of American History.
Other episodes you might enjoy:
Southern Fork Sustenance: Talking Cookbooks and Editor Judith Jones with Author Sara Franklin
Diego Campos: CAMP, Modern American Eatery (Greenville, SC)