Esteban Castillo
Esteban Castillo shares Mexican and Mexican American recipes through Chicano Eats, pairing family food stories with colorful photography and cookbooks for home cooks.
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- Known as
- Chicano Eats
- Work
- Cookbook author, recipe developer and food photographer
- Roots
- Raised in Santa Ana, California, in a family from Colima, Mexico
- Started
- Chicano Eats launched in fall 2016
- Breakout
- 2017 SAVEUR Blog Awards, Readers’ Choice for Best New Voice
- Education
- Public relations degree with a graphic design minor from Humboldt State University
Mini bio
How it started.
Raised in Santa Ana with family roots in Colima, Esteban began cooking familiar dishes after moving to Humboldt County for college. He helped start the bilingual student newspaper El Leñador, serving as art director and writing a food column called “Mi Cocina, Mi Sazon.”
Finding his own space.
Chicano Eats began in fall 2016 as a creative outlet after college. Esteban uses recipes and personal stories to explore his experience as a queer Mexican American. His public relations and graphic design background carries into the bright colors and carefully composed food photographs.
From blog to books.
The blog earned the Readers’ Choice award for Best New Voice at the 2017 SAVEUR Blog Awards. His first cookbook, Chicano Eats, arrived in June 2020 with family recipes, Mexican American dishes, desserts and drinks. Chicano Bakes followed in November 2022, collecting 80 recipes for pan dulce, cakes, tamales and more.
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Quotes
I decided to start Chicano Eats because I’m proud of my rootsEsteban Castillo, Chicano Eats About page
Explaining why he shares food and traditions from his Mexican American upbringing.
Trivia
- He studied public relations and minored in graphic design at Humboldt State University.
- His grandparents ran a restaurant from their backyard in Colima.
- His summer 2024 blackberry margaritas drew on fruit growing in his own backyard.
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