La Latina

Overview

How to cook fantastic, authentic Latin American food utilizing locally available ingredients

From Pozole Rojo to Alfajores, Miami-born, Venezuela-raised, New Zealand-based chef Grace Ramirez shares her interpretation of traditional recipes from throughout Latin America. Utilizing readily available ingredients, Grace recreates the authentic tastes she grew up with in contemporary dishes full of bold flavors. With its use of fresh aromatic ingredients and exciting flavor combinations, Latin American cooking is set to become an exciting new food trend. In this unique cookbook Grace shares inspirational recipes for every meal as well as fascinating titbits of information about each Latin American country's culinary history. Uses cups, tsp and tbsp, and grams.

Author Biography

Grace Ramirez was born in Miami, and spent most of her adult years in New York. She worked as a producer and director at Nickelodeon, MTV, then the Food Network. She gave up her job in television when she was selected from over 60,000 people to be on MasterChef USA. Shortly after, she was awarded a scholarship to the prestigious French Culinary Institute in NYC. She has since relocated to New Zealand.