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Chef Aarón Sánchez’s memoir touched my soul. As a fellow Mexican American, I grew up a lot like Aarón and shared the same kind of traditional Mexican cuisines every night at the dinner table. I have a new respect and understanding for the recipes that were passed along within my family, and I now have a deeper appreciation because I recognize that this is connection to my past that will live on forever. –Oscar de la Hoya, Boxing Legend
Happy 2020! The Latina Book Club has chosen a savory memoir/
cookbook for its first Book of the Month of this new decade.
WHERE I COME FROM: LIFE LESSONS
FROM A LATINO CHEF by Aarón Sánchez is inspiring, passionate and
delicious. Right from the start, readers
learn that Aarón equates his love of food with his love for his family and heritage. He thanks his mother, who pushed him out of
the nest at 16 to go work with a well-known New Orleans chef, for his love of cooking especially
traditional Mexican cuisine. With vivid
detail that engages all the senses, and lively language (lots of f-bombs!), Aarón
is frank in sharing his ups and downs in the culinary universe, but with
perseverance, tenacity, courage and cojones he’s become a MasterChef, author, entrepreneur,
TV personality, and philanthropist. Happy
Reading and Happy Cooking!!
SUMMARY: America’s most
prominent Latino chef shares the story behind his food, his family, and his
professional journey.
Before Chef Aarón Sánchez
rose to fame on shows like MasterChef and Chopped, he was a restless
Mexican-American son, raised by a fiercely determined and talented woman who
was a successful chef and restaurateur in her own right—she is credited with
bringing Mexican cuisine to the New York City dining scene. In many ways,
Sánchez, who lost his father at a young age, was destined to follow in his
mother Zarela’s footsteps. He spent nights as a child in his family’s dining
room surrounded by some of the most influential chefs and restaurateurs in New
York. At 16, needing direction, he was sent by his mother to work for renowned
chef Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans.
In this memoir, Sánchez delves
into his formative years with remarkable candor, injecting his story with
adrenaline and revealing how he fell in love with cooking and started a career
in the fast-paced culinary world. Sánchez shares the invaluable lessons he
learned from his upbringing and his training—both inside and outside the
kitchen—and offers an intimate look into the chaotic and untraditional life of
a professional chef and television personality. This memoir is Sánchez’s
highly personal account of a fatherless Latino kid whose talent and passion
took him to the top of his profession.#
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chef Aarón Sánchez is an
award-winning chef, TV personality, cookbook author, and philanthropist. He is
the costar of the hit series MasterChef and MasterChef Jr., and has starred and guest-starred on many
television series on Food Network and Cooking Channel. Aarón has won a James Beard
award for Television Studio Program (2012) and was the host of the
Emmy-nominated Cooking Channel series, Taco Trip. Learn
more about him at www.chefaaronsanchez.com.
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