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The Smithsonian Honors “Southern-Latino” Cookbook Author Sandra Gutierrez 

31/01/2017 06:00am | 7500 views

By Jill Warren Lucas, Indy Week

Two years ago, museum curator Ariana Curtis tasked her team at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum with identifying Latino immigrants who had achieved a distinct version of the American dream by explicitly expressing their culture, through anything from creative arts and construction to social justice and celebrations. They came across Sandra Gutierrez, a Cary cookbook writer whose early accomplishment was persuading Cary News that a Latina could manage the food section of a Southern newspaper.

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