The New Southern-Latino Table - by Sandra A Gutierrez (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In this splendid cookbook, bicultural cook Sandra Gutierrez blends ingredients, traditions, and culinary techniques, creatively marrying the diverse and delicious cuisines of more than twenty Latin American countries with the beloved food of the American South. The book has beautiful illustrations and features 150 original recipes, a handy glossary, a section on how to navigate a Latin tienda, and a guide to ingredient sources.

Review Quotes

"Few authors are so thoroughly integrated into a cookbook. . . . Using the book is almost like having Gutierrez beside you in your kitchen."--Damon Lee Fowler, Savannah Morning News

"For the food-obsessed, snuggling up to The New Southern-Latino Table cookbook is akin to a new love affair. It comes with all the warmth of tender familiarity while simultaneously sparking an impassioned interest in what is more compatible than imagined." --INDY Week

"Gutierrez shows how compatible Southern and Latin American flavors can be."--Georgia Magazine

"Gutierrez's approach to cooking reflects the fusion of both cultures."--Library Journal

"Its recipes represent an exchange of Southern and Latin cultural traditions, and the combination of [Gutierrez's] identities as an American and a Guatemalan."--Our State

"A beautiful marriage of cultures."--USA Today Hispanic Living

"A wonderful cookbook and a fact-filled guide to the fusion of Southern and Latino cooking. . . . This skillful foray into the cuisine of the Americas . . . is a tremendously valuable addition to the bookshelves of both serious and casual cooks."--ForeWord

"The gift of this book is the introduction of flavor combinations that you may never have imagined. Unlike many Southern recipe collections that overlap somewhat, The New Southern-Latino Table fills a unique niche. This is the perfect gift for cooks who already have a large collection of cookbooks. I know of nothing else quite like it."--Moreton Neal, MetroMag

"The Latino palate and the Southern palate are two distinct tastes from seemingly distinct worlds. However, chef Sandra Gutierrez has brought them together in her unique cookbook."--Latin TRENDS

About the Author

Born in the US, Sandra A. Gutierrez is a bilingual, award-winning journalist, food historian, professional cooking instructor, and author of six cookbooks. She is considered one of the top national experts on Latin American Foodways and on the United States Southern Regional cuisine, and she is one of only a handful of cooks to have discovered a culinary movement in the US (the New Southern-Latino movement, 1996). In 2021, Gutierrez was honored by the Smithsonian Institute as a Woman to Know and as one of the seven Latinas Who Shaped American Culture. Her most recent book is Latinísmo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America. She lives in Cary, North Carolina.