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The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García Audiobook, by Laura Tillman Play Audiobook Sample

The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García Audiobook

The Migrant Chef: The Life and Times of Lalo García Audiobook, by Laura Tillman Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Cindy Kay Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593791165

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

65:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

23:51 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining.

Born 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.

Mexico 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.

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About Laura Tillman

Laura Tillman is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nation, and Pacific Standard, among other publications. Originally from Maplewood, New Jersey, she began her career at The Brownsville Herald in South Texas. She holds a BA degree in international studies from Vassar College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College.

About Cindy Kay

Cindy Kay is a Chinese Thai American narrator and educator who grew up in the California Bay Area and lives in the Rockies. Her work has been described as listening to a “cozy best friend.” She narrates fiction and nonfiction, and has studied Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Japanese.