The Chilean Kitchen: 75 Seasonal Recipes for Stews, Breads, Salads, Cocktails, Desserts, and More

About Eileen SmithPilar Hernandez

Pilar Hernandez was born into a traditional family in central Chile. She was raised by confident home cooks in a matriarchal household chock-full of traditional Chilean food. In 2008 Pilar began to share her zeal for Chilean cuisine on her (now) award-winning recipe blog En Mi Cocina Hoy. She has twice been recognized as one of the 100 Top Latina Bloggers. She is the author of Del Blog A La Mesa which was awarded Gourmand Best Blogger Cookbook in Chile. In addition to all of her community involvement and ongoing recipe development she feeds her husband and two American children a steady diet of Chilean food at their home in Houston Texas.Eileen Smith is a bilingual travel and food writer and photographer originally from New York who moved to Santiago Chile in 2004. Of all of the charms of Chilean life she most especially loves how Chileans tend to use their hands to describe how to make different dishes miming cutting mixing or kneading as they explain recipes. Eileen writes mainly about food travel and Chile and has written extensively for NPRs The Salt Fodors Lonely Planet Tales of the Cocktail Latin Kitchen Paste Dwell Ensemble New Worlder and many others. She has essays in books by Oxford University Press and HarperCollins. She currently works with Upscape Travel interviewing chefs and winemakers writing itineraries and helping to storyboard and produce travel videos.