Maricel Presilla

Maricel Presilla is a chef, culinary historian, and author. She was a two-time James Beard Award nominee as Best Chef, Northeast and headed the kitchen at Cucharama in Hoboken, New Jersey ^[1] and is also chef at Zafra. She specializes in the foods of Latin America and Spain and "holds a doctorate in medieval Spanish history from New York University and has received formal training in cultural anthropology."^[2] She has studied tropical crops, cacao and vanilla agriculture, as well as chocolate production and "is the president of Gran Cacao Company a Latin American food research and marketing company that specializes in the sale of premium cacao beans from Latin America."^[3]

Bibliography

• The New Taste of Chocolate: A Cultural and Natural History of Chocolate with Recipes (Ten Speed Press, 2001).
• Feliz Nochebuena, Feliz Navidad: Christmas Feasts of the Hispanic Caribbean
• Life Around the Lake
• Mola: Cuna Life, Stories, And Art (Holt, 1995)

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ http://www.cucharamama.com/chef.html
3. ^ Bio

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