A guest post by Jamie Schler
Last year, after signing a contract for my first cookbook, I decided to Tweet again — but on food and politics. Not just food.
I already used Facebook almost every day as a marketing tool. I posted about my food writing projects, shared links to food stories, recounted travels, and showed photos of what I baked. While I had long abandoned Twitter, I needed to [Read more…] about Do Food and Politics Mix on Social Media?
Writer and activist Sandra Gutierrez knows what it feels like to be a stereotype, and to break through barriers. She is speaking out through writing — first about food, and now about stereotypes. She did it slowly, but with a belief that her story as a Latina, and the story of Southern Latino food could be told.