Sobremesa

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"If food is the universal language of love, sobremesa is the romance. Gather around the table with C-level career woman turned foodpreneur, Josephine Caminos Or̕a, as she cooks up a magical tale, told morsel by morsel, of some of her most memorable tableside chatssobremesasthat provided the first-generation Argentine-American the courage to leave the safe life she knew and start over from scratch. In her coming-of-age adventure, Josephine travels to her familys homeland of Argentina in search of belongingto family, to country, to a love, and ultimately, to oneself. Steeped in the lure of Latin culture, she pieces together her mom and abuelas pasts, along with the nourishing dishesdelectably and spirituallythat formed their kitchen arsenal. But Josephines travels from las pampas to the prairie aren't easy or conventional. She grapples with mystical encounters with the spirit world that lead her to discover a part of herself that, like sobremesa, had been lost in translation." -- Amazon.com