The migrant chef The life and times of Lalo García
Book - 2023
"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"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Biographies
- Published
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xviii, 230 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781324005773
- Author's Note
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. Tortillas at Dawn
- Chapter 2. Escoffier Reincarnate
- Chapter 3. Mustang
- Chapter 4. Ramen with Doritos
- Chapter 5. The Golden Cage
- Chapter 6. The Return
- Chapter 7. Máximo Bistrot Local
- Chapter 8. Lady Profeco
- Chapter 9. El Jefe
- Chapter 10. Home
- Chapter 11. To Grow Radishes
- Epilogue Notes on a Plague
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index