The migrant chef : the life and times of Lalo García
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/GARCIA,E

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/GARCIA,E Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xviii, 230 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781324005773, 1324005777 :, 1324005777, 9781324005773
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo "Lalo" García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted of a robbery, incarcerated, and eventually deported. Lalo landed in Mexico City as a new generation of chefs was questioning the hierarchies that had historically privileged European cuisine in elite spaces. At his acclaimed restaurant, Máximo Bistrot, he began to craft food that narrated his memories and hopes"--