How Latin American Street Food Catapulted into a Mainstay
Presented by Sandra A. Gutierrez
Cookbook Author, Food Writer, and Culinary Instructor

Learn how the dishes found in the streets of Latin America showcase the historical evolution of an entire culinary culture. According to Sandra A. Gutierrez, street food has been a constant in the culinary landscape of the Americas since Ancient times. By the time the Europeans conquered the New World in the 1500’s, outdoor markets and food stalls were commonplace. Historians documented finding tortillas, tamales, and atoles (hot drinks) sold in the streets of Mesoamerica.Fast forward to the 20th century, when street food went through its most pivotal transformation, evolving from being celebratory food to becoming an everyday occurrence in every Latin American country. What catapulted this change? And what common myths of Latin American cuisine can be debunked when one studies the tantalizing foods sold in the streets of an entire continent? Come join us as Senora Gutierrez spills the beans on this subject, so to speak.

She says that Latin American street food can be as simple as an orange sprinkled with chile and ground pepitas (pumpkin seeds), to a hefty pork sandwich, or a tiny hand-held pie filled with fruit jam. “You’ll find amazing foods on roadside stands, or alongside beautiful beaches, or sold at the entrance of sports stadiums, and universities.”

SANDRA A. GUTIERREZ is a nationally recognized food writer, culinary instructor, and the author of The New Southern-Latino Table and her most recent, Latin American Street Food: The Best Flavors of Markets, Beaches, and Roadside Stands from Mexico to Argentina (which will be on sale at our event). She is the former food editor for The Cary News in North Carolina, and her work has appeared in Cooking Pleasures Magazine, and Cosmopolitan Latina. She has also appeared on Fox News Latino, and NBC Latino. Sandra is presently working on two more books due out in 2015.

Saturday, March 15, 2014
10 a.m. to Noon
At
Kendall College, School of Culinary Arts
900 N. North Branch Street, Chicago
(Located just north of W. Chicago Ave. at N. Halsted St.)
Free Parking

Cost of the lecture program  is $5, $3 for students and no charge for CHC members and Kendall students and faculty.
To reserve, please e-mail your reservation to: Culinary.Historians@gmail.com.