Women Who Travel: Home Cooking in Latin America

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Twenty one countries make up Latin America—and within those countries lies myriad food cultures, recipes, and histories. This week, Women Who Travel host Lale Arikoglu chats with guest Sandra A. Gutierrez about her latest cookbook Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America, an encyclopedic exploration of the region through its dishes and the home cooks who make them. Plus, her travels in countries like Peru and Colombia, and insider tips for tracking down the best eats in a new city.

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0:00.0	Hey Dinner SOS fans, we'll be back next week with more of your dinner emergencies and a very special Valentine's Day game.
0:10.0	But this week we're sharing an episode of Conde Nast Travelers, Women Who Travel,
0:15.1	all about Latin American Cooking.
0:17.3	The show is hosted by Lale Arcoglu, whose dulcet tones you might recognize from our
0:22.4	episode, I Need a group trip meal.
0:26.0	I hope you enjoy and I'll see you next week. Hi there. I'm Lale Arakoglu and welcome to a new episode of women who travel, where we're taking a deep dive into the many ways to experience and eat Latin American food, from markets
0:46.2	and indigenous recipes to family cooking. The way I perceive Latin American foodways as a whole is like a quilt and each country represents a very colorful patch and the ingredients are the thread that connect them all together and they together make the quilt.
1:12.0	I didn't want to talk to chefs, I didn't want to talk to people who just cooked for entertainment. I wanted people to tell me exactly what they made for dinner when they got home.
1:20.0	That's Sandra Gutierrez, a food historian who's written four books mastering the art of
1:26.5	Latin American cuisine. I grew up in Guatemala. I was born in Philadelphia. My parents were both
1:32.2	Guatemala and my dad a surgeon my mother
1:34.0	and economist and they decided to go back to Guatemala to you know go back home. So I was
1:39.7	five when I moved to Guatemala. My home food was extremely international. My mother had been raised in Europe
1:46.8	throughout different countries in Europe. My father, Guatemalan. And my grandmother was
1:51.9	a socialite in Guatemala.
1:53.7	I say she was the Martha Stewart of the 40s, 50s and 60s in Guatemala.
1:57.6	I mean, she was amazing.
1:58.6	What a fabulous description.
2:00.6	I can't, I can't tell you anything different. She would set the most majestic tables with
2:06.3	flowers that she picked in her estate you know and she grew fruits and she had a
2:10.5	vegetable garden and she raised chickens and it was just amazing but she was a socialite so people
2:17.6	would always come to her house on Sundays we were always there on the weekends
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