Celebrating Latino Food & Culture

Here are some online titles to go along with our current display.

Janer, Zilkia. Latino Food Culture Greenwood, 2008.

Albyn, Carole L., Lois S. Webb "Latin America." The Multicultural Cookbook for Students. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 1993.

Lovera, Jose. Food Culture in South America. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2005.

Note: these were titles that appeared in our subscription to Daily Life Online, which now has significantly revised content intended to be more academic in nature - for example, see "Food & Drink in 20th Century Latin America." by Molly Todd. Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, 2010.

Nobel Prize in Literature - Latin America

The CBC Library is currently displaying selected books from our collection by Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, along with those of the other Latin American laureates, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Short biographies of each author may be found in our Gale Virtual Reference Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Ed. Jay Kinsbruner and Erick D. Langer. 2nd ed. Scribner's, 2008.

• Mario Vargas Llosa (2010)
  
• Octavio Paz. (1990)
  
• Gabriel García Márquez (1982)
• Pablo Neruda (1971)