Books & Books presents…

AN EVENING WITH KIM CAVINESS

In conversation with Guisell Gomez

discussing

Familia Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking Our Way Back Home

($47.99)

Friday, October 7, 6:30 PM | LIVE & IN-PERSON at Books & Books, Coral Gables

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Books & Books is excited to present an evening with Kim Caviness as she discusses Familia Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking Our Way Back Home ($47.99) a celebración of authentic and delicioso family recipes! She will be in conversation with BeLatina News Deputy Editor Guisell Gomez at Books & Books, Coral Gables!

About the Book:

Familia Kitchen Cookbook is a celebration of Latino homecooking, one family-famous recipe at a time. From savory: arroz con pollo, guacamole, ceviche and tamales to sweet: arroz con leche, flan and tres leches cake, this essential cookbook features the most popular recipes from FamiliaKitchen.com, the leading website of Latino dishes at their most authentic and delicioso.

Year after year, the cookbook‘s 100 traditional dishes are made by our community of Latino cooks for important occasions, holiday feasts and everyday simple meals. Each chapter features one of the 12 winners from Familia Kitchen’s first year of monthly recipe contests and is filled with authentic dishes, flavors and ingredients honed over time. Or as we say at Familia Kitchen: Abuela Approved.  As you flip through this cookbook’s recipes, food stories and photos, we hope you make the dishes that call out to you—in your own way and for people you love. No matter where your family comes from, you and everyone you know are invited to our celebración. Bienvenidos. Let’s cook our way home—together. 

About Familia Kitchen

Familia Kitchen.com is the Latino leading recipes and food stories website featuring hundreds of original Latino family-famous recipes. We’re on a mission to gather, cook and celebrate our traditional Latino culinary heritage at its most authentic and delicioso. Join us as we build an community treasury of our favorite abuela cooking recipes from the 20 Spanish-speaking places we come from in the Americas. Each month, we host a Familia Kitchen Recipe Contest. Each year, the winning homecook with the most popular family recipe wins a trip for two to their Latino homeland. This is how cook our way home—together.

About the Author/Editor:

Kim Caviness, co-founder and editor in chief of Familia Kitchen, grew up in Santurce, Puerto Rico in a small, family-owned hotel. She loves to cook for family and friends, learning from her Puerto Rican mom and American dad how to entertain guests with style and sabor. For this cookbook, Kim talked to hundreds of Latino homecooks about their favorite recipes and food stories, tapping in her 20+ years of journalism and content experience, including at the Boston Herald, Condé Nast Traveler and as chief content officer of several agencies. Her husband, Lyn, and son, Roberto “Bob,” love when she makes Puerto Rico family dishes she learned to make from her mom, Marisa, and from “El Libro”: Cocina Criolla, the Boricua cooking bible.