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Sandra Gutierrez

About

Sandra A. Gutierrez is author of four cookbooks, including The New Southern-Latino Table. She is the 2017 Grand Prize–winner and Internet Category–winner of Les Dames d’Escoffier International’s MFK Fisher Awards for Excellence in Culinary Writing, for her Oxford American story “A Voice from the Nuevo South.” She discovered her activist voice at the Southern table.

Articles

Web Feature

A Day At the Mall

My “call to forks,” if I may, is one of unity and community, one that proves we’ve already come together at the table, one that invites us all to understand each other better while we share meals.

By Sandra Gutierrez

A Voice from the Nuevo South

Soon after arriving from Canada to live in the South, I became the first Latina food editor and columnist of a newspaper in North Carolina.

By Sandra Gutierrez

FOOD MEMORIES

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  We all have an emotional connection to eating—anyone who has ever soothed hurt feelings or mended a broken heart with food will agree. Food...

By Sandra Gutierrez
Web Feature

An African-american Scholar, A White Southerner From Appalachia, And A New Southern-latina Walk Into A Conference And Grab The Microphone

By Sandra Gutierrez

SUSTAINING CHANGE FOR ALL

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  I am grateful to the feminists who came before me and who made it possible for me to be where I am today. But mostly, I am tremendously...

By Sandra Gutierrez

TO BEGIN WHERE ONE LEFT OFF, AND THEN BEGIN AGAIN

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By.  Important conversations are taking place around the Southern table—frank discussions on culinary appropriation and whether anyone can truly...

By Sandra Gutierrez