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"She looked up from the stove and smiled:
-I cooked for her every day for weeks, until I realized she wasn’t coming back.
We looked at each other and remained silent”.


“When you create a recipe book for remembrance, what is it you want to remember? What is it you want to preserve and live over again? You want to remember the child who left —who disappeared—to relive the moment when cooking that dish was joyful, the moment when your son or daughter took a bite and said, ‘Oh, how delicious, Mom! Can I have another plate?’”

The following people provided recipes for this book:

Rosario Robles, Esther Preciado, Yesenia Liseth Torres Ramos, Ana Griselda Zapodaca,
Yolanda Zapodaca Buelna, Erika Acosta González, Mirna Nereida Medina Quiñonez,
Miriam Violeta Maldonado Valdez, Nelly Antonia Torres López, Artemisa Escalante Ayala,
Martina Jaquez Chávez, María Cleofás Lugo, Delfina Herrera Ruíz, Reyna Isabel Rodriguez Peñuelas,
Noemí Brías Armenta, Blanca Soto, Florencia Quiroz, Guadalupe Quiroz, Ofelia Flores Moreno,
Soledad Pérez León, Benito Lizarraga Ramirez, Sonia Ivonne Chanes Gómez, Jessica Higuera Torres, Carmen Rosas Morales, Juana Antonia Escalante Barreras, Ángeles Rodríguez Sepúlveda,
Claudia Selene Osorio.

CREDITS:
© Photographs: Zahara Gómez Lucini
© Texts: Constanza Posadas Certucha, Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte, Daniela Rea, María De Vecchi Gerli, Zahara Gómez Lucini 
© Editing: Zahara Gómez Lucini
    Design: Clarisa Moura
    Proofreading: Tinta Roja Editoras

ALLIES:

This project and its publication have been made possible thanks to the support of:

· ARTICLE 19 office for Mexico and Central America
· Human Rights Commission of Mexico City
· Embassy of Ireland in Mexico
· Panorama Printing
· Maximo Bistrot restaurant
· Flor de Nogal and Taft Diaz restaurants
· Pujol restaurant