Frida's Fiestas
by Guadalupe Rivera & Marie-Pierre Colle
Frida Kahlo's table, set exactly as she left it.
For you if
you want to understand Frida Kahlo through what she fed people rather than what she painted
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Frida Kahlo threw legendary parties at La Casa Azul in Coyoacán — political, artistic, chaotic, abundant. This book reconstructs her table through recipes, photographs, and memories from the people who ate there. Food as biography, culture as something you eat. The dispatch from inside the domestic life of one of the 20th century's most mythologized figures — not the suffering, not the paintings, but the mole and the tamales and the people she fed them to.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Mexico • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Mexican author
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For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
