Ethnic Foods

Interview Description Alberto Campain (61) and wife Marlen Campain (61) talk with their daughter Pamela Wright (31) about being Latinos in the United States. Facilitator Subject Log 02:00 Alberto talks about the cultural differences he experienced when first arriving to the United States. 05:20 Marlen talks about going to Belmont High School in Los Angeles, Ca and being a Latina. 08:20 Alberto talks about going to the Grand Central Market...

Interview Description Lourdes Campos (50) and friend John Rivera Sedlar (55) talk about Latino/Hispanic food trends. Facilitator Subject Log 03:20 John talks about how he got started with food and how his interests began. 07:20 John talks about arriving in Los Angeles from Santa Fe, NM during the bicentennial anniversary of America. 10:15 John talks about the different tamales his company introduced and also the evolution of tamales....

Interview Description Baudelia Cantú Torres (89) is interviewed by her granddaughter, Edith Foret (43) about her family, her childhood in San Diego, TX, and her advice for future generations of her family. Facilitator Subject Log 3:31 Baudelia is happy to be close to Edith and Edith's daughter Lily; proud of her girls, names her children and grandchildren 10:23 Spanish was Baudelia's primary language; learning English at school; being the oldest she...

Interview Description Cynthia "Cyd " interviews her mom, Domenica "Minnie ", about her life. Facilitator Subject Log 2:58 Minnie loved her father. He grew up in Italy but traveled a lot and spoke many languages. Her mother was from New Mexico and spoke Spanish, not English. 5:10 Minnie started working young. She worked from 4-7am in a bakery and then went to school and sold movie tickets after school. 7:05 After high school she worked for...

Interview Description Janet Carballo (27) y su amiga Martha Fazzoni (43) hablan de sus vidas en los E.E.U.U. [Janet Carballo (27) and friend Martha Fazzoni (43) talks about their lives in the United States.] Facilitator Subject Log 01:00 Janet nacio en Estado de Mexico, pero se mudo a la frontera - Tamaulipas - cuando tenia 10 años. Tiene un año en los Estados Unidos. 02:40 Martha nacio en Montevideo, Uruguay y se mudo a los Estados Unidos hace siete...

Interview Description Connie Carisalez reminisces with her sister Claudie Carisalez Morland about their great grandparents and their grandparents. Facilitator Subject Log 3:25 Claudia remembers her great grandparents' funerals; they died a week apart from each other 10:13 memories of their great grandmother's tortillas; grandma Carisalez had a temper; divorced; the Christmas she passed away 18:00 description of grandmother Lopez; she...

Interview Description Rogelio Castano habla con su cuidadora Ana Waldo acerca de su ninez, sus padres, sus abuelos/as, sus esposas y sus actividades favoritas. Ademas, hablan de politica local. Facilitator Subject Log 2:40 Rogelio habla de valores de familia tipica mexicana - respeto a mayores. 5:50 Rogelio habla de sus orgullos y se describe a si mismo. 13:50 Ana comparte las lecciones que le ha dejado la vida. 16:15 Rogelio...

Interview Description Lana interviews Rita about her life and her hispanic heritage. Facilitator Subject Log 10:19 By the time she was in High School Rita started to experience discrimination. She dated the one Mexican boy in town (whose parents expected them to get married), but she didn't like him. 15:01 Rita remembers having to sit upstairs at the theater because she was a "kid of color. " She once wasn't served in a restaurant in Newton and the...

Interview Description Lizbeth Colocho (9) and Kierra Palmer (9) read their short stories about their favorite holiday foods to their instructor Gracie Cavnar (57) Facilitator Subject Log 00:30 Lizbeth reads her stories about her family's tamale making tradition. 03:40 Lizbeth talks about the chef she works with at Recipes for Success. 07:30 Kierra reads her story about Thanksgiving Crawfish Dressing. 10:17 Kierra talks about...

Interview Description Juan Mendez (25) talks with Juan Contreras (26) about crossing the border from Mexico to the United States and about the differences between life in Mexico and the United States and what they miss about Mexico. Facilitator Subject Log 1:44 En que trabajas? construcción but jobs have slowed down 5:08 JM goes to martial arts school; black belt; wants to teach martial arts classes 14:00 The story of why JC wanted to come...