Kim Caviness He is a journalist and a lover of cooking. As a journalist, he has more than 20 years of experience and in terms of his taste for cooking, practically his entire life.
She is based in Chicago, United States, but she lived in Puerto Rico, from the age of six months until she was 13 and from that time the seasoning of the “island of charm” remained in her memory and palate, and now she shares it in the North American country . “Food definitely opens doors” for Latinos in the United States, Caviness says.
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And that taste for cooking was captured on a web page and now her recipes have been transferred to a book, which will go on sale on Saturday, October 15. It all started two years ago with a jalapeño that was an ingredient in Puerto Rican style rice with chicken.
It was exactly on October 6, 2020 that the Familia Kitchen website was launched, together with Lisa Hunt. After having prepared and tasted each dish, on the portal they publish almost without editing the best recipes they receive and hold monthly contests on a specific dish from the varied gastronomy of Latin America, such as pozole, ropa vieja, asado with chimichurri, sancocho, flan or Ceviche.
“That helps us so that not everything is Mexican recipes,” he says, but clarifies that he also likes Mexican cuisine, which is well known in the United States.
He didn’t like it so much that the Puerto Rican-style chicken rice recipe that he was looking for on the web one day to prepare that dish for his family began by saying: “cut the jalapeño”.
Caviness thus realized that the authenticity of some of those recipes available to anyone on the internet is not guaranteed, since he does not know of any Puerto Rican dish that contains this type of Mexican hot pepper. In the long run, the misplaced jalapeño led her to consider creating her own website.
Your book Family Kitchen Cookbook It contains 99 recipes, including twelve winners of the monthly contests, as well as other related ones. In addition, there are photographs of Michelle Ezratty Murphy, which make her mouths water, and the stories of those who sent them.
This book is dedicated to those “grandmothers”, like her “dearest” neighbor Doña Felipa, and to the Kitchen Family community in general, which, according to the dedication printed on its pages, is made up of people “who are cooking their return to home”.
It is a way of saying that by preparing these dishes they somehow return to their countries, which are Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua. , Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela, according to the book.
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Familia Kitchen Cookbook also has contributors and one of them is the Dominican-American Belquis Ortiz Melilli, who contributes with the typical recipes of her country, she also has her web page related to the kitchen belquistwist.com.
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As a way of thanking its visitors to the website, Familia Kitchen annually plans to award a prize, which consists of a trip to the country of the winner.
According to Caviness, 30% of page visitors are men and 70% are women from all generations.
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In the Familia Kitchen community it is also common to spanglisha mixture of Spanish and English, and that is also evident in the name itself.
After the publication of this book, now Caviness’s dream is to transfer this project to television, where not only the recipes and dishes would be, but it would go back to its origins. “The History of food interests me a lot,” he emphasizes. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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