skillet
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1970
notes: label: Description
content: Metal comal, or skillet, used for cooking tortillas and toasting nuts and seeds. Thin round silver colored skillet with two handles. Thin rectangular handles protrude out from two sides of the skillet. Skillet scratched and silver plate missing in some areas due to use.
label: Description
content: Cook and author Sandra Gutierrez is at heart a culinary educator. Gutierrez was born in the U.S. in Philadelphia, but raised in Guatemala, where she attended an American school that brought Guatemalan and U.S. cultural practices together.
label: Description
content: Gutierrez’ life was not defined by two distinct cultures, but by a single culture that shared the traditions of Guatemala and the U.S. “Food at home was also a reflection of my fused reality: we ate tamales for special occasions. . . . and Carolina hot dogs every chance we got,” she explains in her cookbook, “The New Southern Latino Table.”
label: Description
content: As an adult, Gutierrez and her husband, Louis Gutierrez, moved to the U.S., eventually settling in Durham, North Carolina. There in the American South, Gutierrez learned about Southern food traditions from her neighbors and in turn taught them about diverse Latin cuisines. It was while living in the South that she began to take note of the culinary movement that combines regional Southern and Latin American foodways and which now lies at the center of her culinary career. She notes in her cookbook that the regional cuisines of Latin America and the Southern United States share many ingredients and cooking techniques in common: ingredients like tomatoes, corn, pork, beans, sugar, potatoes and key techniques like barbecuing, braising, roasting and deep frying.
label: Description
content: Culinary writing is one of the many ways Gutierrez builds interpersonal relationships. Inviting people into her family’s inner sanctum, she also hosts cooking classes in her home. In her kitchen, where ceramics from Guatemala share counter space with antique Jell-O molds found in Southern antique shops, Gutierrez shares her migration story and passion for food cultures.
place: label: place made
content: Guatemala
label: Associated Place
content: Guatemala
topic: label: Subject
content: Cooking
label: Subject
content: Latino
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Sandra Guiterrez
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0039.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0039
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0039.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skillet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/16 in x 11 13/16 in x 10 1/4 in; 2.69875 cm x 30.00375 cm x 26.035 cm