Elena Rivera

Astoria, NY · she/her

Elena trained as a chef, did her time in a couple of Manhattan restaurants, and like so many women with both talent and sense, got out in her early thirties. Writes now about the unglamorous workhorses of a home kitchen - Dutch ovens, sheet pans, a decent thermometer. Comes from a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father, with childhood Sunday lunches in the Bronx that were rarely, if ever, small. Deeply suspicious of anything cooked quickly.