New Orleans Con Sabor Latino: The History and Passion of Latino Cooking by Zella Palmer Cuadra

Author:Zella Palmer Cuadra
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Food & Wine, Cooking, Social Science, Cajun & Creole, Regional & Ethnic, Essays & Narratives, American, Cookbooks, Southern States, Ethnic Studies, Central American & South American, Hispanic American Studies
ISBN: 9781617038952
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013-07-27T04:35:38.881000+00:00

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street anymore. Later, a friend invited me to use his kitchen at Café Negril and I set up there. A few years ago, I opened a restaurant in Gretna called Benny’s Taqueria and another restaurant called The Palms near Tulane University. The students enjoy my restaurant. They go almost every night.

A lot of friends I make. I make Mexican food, but I use my Brazilian way of doing food because we don’t like too much spice. I don’t like spicy food. I put some love in the food. I didn’t open a Brazilian restaurant because we don’t have enough Brazilians in New Orleans and it’s expensive. We don’t have menus in Brazil; they give you a card, green one side and red on the other then they bring the food to you. It can cost around fifty dollars and I don’t think people in New Orleans want to pay that. I like New Orleans but I miss my country sometimes. You have maybe five hundred or eight hundred Brazilians in New Orleans. They are like gypsies. If they don’t make money here they move to another city. When I was on Frenchmen Street, I served in my taco truck quesadillas, burrito, surround my truck and dance and enjoy eating tacos. Pineapple pork taco was my best seller and the food outside. Everybody loved my burritos pupusas and Honduran tamales. I have a regular because they were cheap and filled you up. When menu, but we use the Brazilian flavor, less spice as you ask a Latin guy what is your favorite dish?

possible so you can feel the flavor of the food. After The answer is all the same, food. I don’t have my they drink a lot, they eat the food and it’s fresh so truck on Frenchmen; they gave me a lot of tickets they feel the flavor of the food. Then they go home even though I had all of the licenses. They arrested and go to sleep.

me every night and I got tired so I don’t work the (Interview was translated from Spanish.)

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