LAWA - Sabor Latino - September 25th, 2014 - Mint Museum Randolph

Every year the Latin American Women's Association (LAWA) celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a Forum. It features some aspect of Hispanic culture, literature, art or folklore.

This year's forum centers around food!

 Months of preparation, research and planning brought a big success... 

font-size: small;">Thanks  Food Lion, this year's  sponsor

Ana Silva Rey and Ana Rivera Lemley were in charge of the general organization of the event, and created floral center pieces ...

Big flowers for the larger tables

Fresh flowers for the smaller tables

Enjoying meeting each other

LAWA volunteers Tere Vasquez and Erin Flynn
at registration table

LAWA member Mary Kielland with friends

        Aída Posada Bertsch, Diana Kielland Sanchez, 

                      Ana María Rivera Lemley, Concepción Vasallo Alemán,  

Cash bar with Latin American wines

             Eugenio Alemán, Luis Vasallo.

   After the first 30 minutes, guests were invited to attend the actual  one-hour-long forum: food preparation by Julián Grajales - Chef Segreto - cultural and literary comments by Dr. Magdalena Maiz-Peña and Anneliese Horst.

BUT, What happened half through the program?

...there was too much smoke in the back kitchen, the fire alarm started and everybody had to vacate the building!!!!
   
   That is one of the main reasons for this blog, I will post not only pictures, but also the script and recipes the guests never got to hear.

Script that followed the opening remarks delivered by Ana Silva Rey, LAWA board member:

   For more than 500 years the world has enjoyed the marriage of culinary ingredients; our kitchens have become more plentiful... Tonight you will experience this magnificent union of spices and food...
   Following his passion, Julián Grajales created Chef Segreto to assist friends like you with the preparation of delicious meals by creating menus that are deemed fine dining and home-style at the same time.

With over 10 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Chef Segreto has masterfully refined and developed cooking into an art. His mission is to educate our palate and simplify our life in the kitchen, while creating gourmet style meals that are outstanding when it comes to taste and elaborate presentation. 
   Specializing in Mediterranean and "Floribbean" style dishes, Chef Julián spices things up by adding an accent of Latin flavor...
His motto is

To dine well is to live well.