Long-time readers of this blog know that my love of Latin America sprang first from my college major in Latin American Studies. Food played no part in the formal curriculum but on the ground in Mexico – Mexico City, Veracruz, Mérida in the Yucatán – as a student in Puebla, I discovered a whole new world of flavors. In Puerto Rico, where I trained to be a Peace Corps volunteer in a small Guaraní-speaking village in southern Paraguay, I learned even more about the variety that imbues Latin America’s culinary world. Short trips to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil added to my culinary world.
So, when I heard that Sandra Gutierrez intended to publish Latinísimo, I immediately pre-ordered a copy. It should arrive on publication day, October 3, 2023.
I can’t wait to be transported back to those marvelous places where life bore a certain elan not readily found anywhere else.
Oh yes, the book is also available in Spanish. ¡Qué maravilloso es esto!
CYNTHIA D. BERTELSEN 
This sounds fantastic. Thanks!