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description: Hola Papi! columnist John Paul Brammers Authentically Mexican is the hilarious and heartfelt story of his Mexican American family in diaspora exploring his heritage and identity through six meaningful meals. Many Mexican American families bond over traditional foods and recipes: sweating over steaming tamales at Christmastime chopping up vegetables for pozole prepping tortillas with a splintery wooden block and roller. This was not the case for John Paul Brammer. His parents barely cooked and when dinnertime rolled around he could often find his mother and grandmother fighting over whether to dine at Pizza Hut or Golden Corral. Years later when John Paul began to explore the role that food plays in his life he soon realized that while it may be unusual he did have a culinary tradition all his own: No matter the circumstances the story of a family can be told through the recipes and meals that have sustained it the meals we come back to eating time and again - for nostalgia for comfort for a deeper kind of sustenance. The perfect next listen for fans of Samantha Irby and R. Eric Thomas this unforgettable personal essay is full of both laugh-out-loud moments and poignant observations about what it means to celebrate your heritage and culture authentically wherever you are - from Mexico Citys Da de Muertos parade to the Taco Bueno drive-through in Lawton Oklahoma.
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title: Authentically Mexican: A Family History in Six Dishes
publisher: Audible Originals