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A tamale being made in a cooking class at La Casita Mexicana for USC students in Sarah Portnoy's Latino Food Culture class. Chefs Jaime and Ramiro taught the students how to make tamales of all shapes and sizes, salsas, and tacos de canasta, a unique and delicious experience!

La Casita Mexicana's story is featured in Chapter 2 of the book, From Border Grill to Broken Spanish: The Evolution of Latino Cuisine in Los Angeles

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A mural on the wall outside of Guelaguetza Restaurant in Koreatown, Los Angeles' most prestigious and popular Oaxacan restaurant, the first traditional Mexican restaurant to win a James Beard Award (2015). Sarah has taken her students there for a class banquet and students frequently visit Guelaguetza for their class blogs on Latino food in L.A. (Photo by Ebony Bailey)

The story of Guelaguetza is featured in Chapter 2 of the book, From Border Grill to Broken Spanish: The Evolution of Latino Cuisine in Los Angeles.

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Tile wall on the walkway up to Proyecto Jardín in Boyle Heights, a community garden and amazing gathering place that existed for sixteen years until evicted by White Memorial Medical Center in Fall 2016. Sarah Portnoy's students volunteered with Proyecto Jardín as part of the USC Good Neighbors Campaign during the Fall of 2015. (Photo by Ebony Bailey)

The story of Proyecto Jardín and its director Irene Peña is featured in Chapter 7 of the book, Urban Agriculture and Latino Roots in Los Angeles.

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Caridad Vásquez speaking at a rally for street vendor legalization in Los Angeles. Caridad regularly speaks to Sarah Portnoy's students. She shares her story and the hardship of working in an illegal industry. Street vendors face new hope for legalization from the city of Los Angeles in the wake of the Trump election. (Photo by Fernando Abarca, ELACC)

Caridad's story and the story of the battle for the legalization of the 50,000 street vendors in Los Angeles is featured in Chapter 4, Street Food Vendors in Los Angeles: The Epic Fight for Legalization

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Sarita's Pupusería in the Central Market, downtown Los Angeles. Sarita serves delicious pupusas and has been a part of the Central Market for many years. Sarita told her story to Sarah's USC students as part of a tour of Latino food culture at the Grand Central Market. (Photo by Sarah Portnoy)

Sarita's story is featured in Chapter 2, From Border Grill to Broken Spanish: The Evolution of Latino Cuisine in Los Angeles.

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ABOUT THE AUTOR

Sarah Portnoy received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Romance Languages and Literatures in 2005. Currently, she is an Associate Professor (teaching) in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where she conducts research and teaches about food culture and food justice in Los Angeles’s Latino communities. She teaches food-related courses at USC, “Food Culture in Latino Los Angeles,” “Food Justice in Latino Los Angeles,” “Food, Health and Culture in Latino Los Angeles, as well as a yearly course in Oaxaca, Mexico on food culture, street art, and traditional medicine.

Her 2016 book, Food, Health and Culture in Latino Los Angeles (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.) has received recognition for its contribution to furthering the field of food justice and Food Studies. 

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