{"product_id":"the-migrant-chef-the-life-and-times-of-lalo-garcia","title":"The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García","description":"Winner of the 2024 James Beard Foundation's Award for Literary Writing\n\nA New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • An NPR 2023 \"Books We Love\" Pick\n\nA chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining.\nBorn in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted of a robbery, incarcerated, and eventually deported. Lalo landed in Mexico City as a new generation of chefs was questioning the hierarchies that had historically privileged European cuisine in elite spaces. At his acclaimed restaurant, Máximo Bistrot, he began to craft food that narrated his memories and hopes.\nMexico City–based journalist Laura Tillman spent five years immersively reporting on Lalo’s story: from Máximo’s kitchen to the onion fields of Vidalia, Georgia, to Dubai’s first high-end Mexican restaurant, to Lalo’s hometown of San José de las Pilas. What emerges is a moving portrait of Lalo’s struggle to find authenticity in an industry built on the very inequalities that drove his family to leave their home, and of the artistic process as Lalo calls on the experiences of his life to create transcendent cuisine. The Migrant Chef offers an unforgettable window into a family’s border-eclipsing dreams, Mexico’s culinary heritage, and the making of a chef.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1324005777\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1324005777.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Tillman, Laura\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41655568433210,"sku":"DBV.1324005777.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1324005777-0.jpg?v=1789530926","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-migrant-chef-the-life-and-times-of-lalo-garcia","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}