Sazón & Liberation Paperback – September 10, 2025

Food is never just food. It carries memory, identity, and resilience across borders.Sazón & Liberation is both a cookbook and a collection of stories, sharing the voices of immigrant chefs from Latin America and beyond. This second volume of Cocina Libre shows how food can be resistance, survival, and hope along the migration journey.Inside are dozens of recipes tied to intimate stories. You’ll find Salvadoran pupusas made the way a grandmother taught, Colombian empanadas that honor family traditions, and Mexican mole that carries both history and reinvention.The dishes may come from different places, but the themes connect: migration, resilience, and the power of sazón to preserve identity while creating community. Each recipe is both food and story—an invitation to cook, to listen, and to gather at a table where liberation is imagined through food. Read more