PDF The Migrant Chef The Life and Times of Lalo García

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The Migrant Chef The Life and Times of Lalo García
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The Migrant Chef The Life and Times of Lalo
García Description
A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 8226 An NPR 2023
Books We Love Pick A chef 8217 s gripping quest
to reconcile his childhood experiences as a
migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of
fine dining Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo Lalo
8221 Garc 237 a Guzm 225 n 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, M 225 ximo Bistrot, he began to craft
food that narrated his memories and hopes Mexico
City 8211 based journalist Laura Tillman spent
five years immersively reporting on Lalo 8217 s
story from M 225 ximo 8217 s kitchen to the onion
fields of Vidalia, Georgia, to Dubai 8217 s first
high-end Mexican restaurant, to Lalo 8217 s
hometown of San Jos 233 de las Pilas What emerges
is a moving portrait of Lalo 8217 s struggle to
find authenticity in an industry built on the
very inequalities that drove his family to leave
their home, and of the artistic process as Lalo
calls on the experiences of his life to create
transcendent cuisine The Migrant Chef offers an
unforgettable window into a family 8217 s
border-eclipsing dreams, Mexico 8217 s culinary
heritage, and the making of a chef