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For her latest cookbook, “Latinísimo,” Sandra A. Gutierrez found creative ways to meet cooks to document the home cooking of Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
Just as Sandra A. Gutierrez was about to embark on a research trip to the 23 cities throughout Latin America that she planned to cover in her fifth cookbook, the coronavirus pandemic grounded international travel.
It was yet another hurdle for Ms. Gutierrez, who had spent four years narrowing down a list of 9,000 recipes to about 500 for “Latinísimo: Home Recipes From the 21 Countries of Latin America,” her encyclopedia-style cookbook, which was released last week in both English and Spanish editions.
Instead of taking the trip, she moved hundreds of preplanned interviews to Zoom and scheduled at least 40 online cooking classes with experts. To perfect sancocho de Domingo, Ms. Gutierrez turned to Francisco Castro, a chef in Panama, who taught her how to make the chicken and root vegetable soup, and followed up with dozens of other Panamanian cooks who shared their tips for the dish.
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